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Political elections are in the air. Both in the USA & here in NZ. I am wrestling with what I always wrestle in these seasons. Ethics. Neither the Right nor the Left is ever totally compelling for me. This is frustrating. Four documents are open in front of me to help guide me. (a) One…
READ MOREI love this time of the year. I am an early riser and enjoy going to my little study on the first floor. It used to be the walk-in closet off a bedroom. I love having Concert FM accompanying me in the background. Then as 6am approaches the classical music seamlessly and gradually fades away…
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 MOREWhile I don’t commence employment until 1st April the powers-that-be encouraged me to attend the annual International Council meetings of Langham Partnership International in London this past week. There were many highlights… ONEI loved attending All Souls, Langham Place on the Sunday (my birthday!) before the meetings started. This is where John Stott has been…
READ MOREIf your shelves are lined with books with names on their spines like Burke, Pagitt, Ward, Chalke, and Tomlinson… If the links on your laptop suggest you connect readily to Miller, Bell, McLaren, Rollins and McManus… Then you owe it to yourself – and to those you influence- to read Kevin DeYoung & Ted Kluck,…
READ MOREBack on May 1 I shared with you that not only had I been granted some study leave, someone had gifted me five months in a gym with a personal trainer. I made myself accountable to you with a ‘before’ photo of me with the promise that I would include an ‘after’ photo as well,…
READ MOREInto the margins of my life I am trying to squeeze assignments for my DMin. My focus at the moment is on the story of Philip and the Ethiopian eunuch. I am loving it for all sorts of reasons – not the least being the parallels between it and my favourite story of Jesus on…
READ MOREA new season in our lives beckons with the engagement of our lovely Alyssa to Tim Hart. Barby and I couldn’t be more delighted. Tim has been in and out of our home for three years and has been a friend to each one in the family long before talk of engagement commenced. Here is…
READ MOREWhether it be the evening TV news, the midday news, or the morning news there are three features with which I am increasingly frustrated. It is copy-catWhenever I travelled to Australia I would smile at how much they copied the Americans. From extending news broadcasts beyond the evening hour … to single news readers becoming…
READ MOREI have a fair amount of Americana in me – having been educated at an American boarding school (Woodstock School, India) and then at an American theological college(Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Chicago). So when the presidential elections come around I struggle to shrug off compulsive behavioural patterns! 2008 has proved the biggest struggle of all.…
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.