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I am enjoying my longest stay in the USA since I was a student here 25+ years ago. I have been speaking at the annual missions’ conference of a church set in the cornfields of NW Ohio – where my father-in-law is pastor emeritus. The church has been supporting Barby’s family in India for 95…
READ MOREThe research and publication profile of Carey Baptist College has just reached new heights – well, new sights anyway. The other night Mike Crudge held a book launch for his new book, Abel Tasman Coastal Track: the best bit of New Zealand. So much of what I have enjoyed about Mike over the years comes…
READ MOREI guess it was a kind of madness. Hiring a car in Morocco seemed brave enough – but selecting one without air-conditioning in 46-48 degree weather and then covering 1345kms over two days? Oh – and just to refresh us for the trip we spent the night before listening to scaffolding poles being dropped one…
READ MOREWhat better way to mark my 100th post than to tell you about my trip to The Oval. Being raised in India I have had a lifelong love for cricket. I used to listen to the dulcet tones of John Arlott on the BBC as a lad. I have even burdened readers of this blog…
READ MOREBarby and I have just completed five days in Denmark – the land of Lego, Soren Kierkegaard, Hans-Christian Anderson, a royal princess from Tasmania, Vikings, inflammatory political cartoons, Hamlet, Babette’s Feast, and those industrious windfarms (while 15kms away Sweden positions a nuclear powerplant!)I was attending the biennial meetings of a global scholarly society of teachers…
READ MORELast week Barby and I tacked on a visit to Kanchanaburi after speaking at a conference in Thailand. This is ‘Bridge over the River Kwai’ territory and all those stories about the Japanese using 200,000 POWs in 50 different camps to build a 400km train track in just six months – before the Allies bombed…
READ MOREI am on my way home from ten days in this region speaking at the annual conference of a ‘company’ with its ‘workers’ gathered together from throughout the area. Sorry – I have to be a bit vague for security reasons. Here are a few observations… a churchWhile the church is not a building one…
READ MOREAfter an extended summer break in the South Island it is time to get stuck into another year. When on holiday I love exploring new places. This holiday was no exception. We walked the Abel Tasman Track. Seeing is believing! Bark Bay and Te Puketea Bay will be part of the family vernacular forever. We…
READ MOREA little transit time in Bangkok – why not post a blog? My son (Martin) and I are returning from 18 days in Africa where I participated in the Pastors Book Project – the brainchild of visionary SIM-er Jim Mason. 24 conferences over 4months in 19 locations distributing a quality library of 65 books (and…
READ MOREIn twenty minutes a young friend of mine flies out of New Zealand for what we tend to call the ‘great Kiwi OE’ – the Overseas Experience. It is kinda like a Rite of Passage. It is a great idea. We kinda know that down here in the Antipodes we are far from much of…
READ MOREAbout Me
the art of unpacking
After a childhood in India, a theological training in the USA and a pastoral ministry in Southland (New Zealand), I spent twenty years in theological education in New Zealand — first at Laidlaw College and then at Carey Baptist College, where I served as principal. In 2009 I began working with Langham Partnership and since 2013 I have been the Programme Director (Langham Preaching). Through it all I've cherished the experience of the 'gracious hand of God upon me' and I've relished the opportunity to 'unpack', or exegete, all that I encounter in my walk through life with Jesus.