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The other night we attended the parent:teacher evening for our youngest child, Joseph (aged 14 – year 10). With five children we’ve been to a few of these events over the years… A Unit of learning in his Social Studies class is the Crusades. Really?! In two thousands years of history this is the story…
READ MOREIs anyone else provoked by this full page picture in New Zealand newspapers this week?The caption, presumably spoken by this African woman, reads: “In New Zealand many women are denied some human rights that I enjoy”. I know they are trying to push the boundaries in order to expose the despicable that is kept hidden…
READ MOREOver the past few months Barby and I have had the privilege of spending time in countries that were new to us: Thailand, Denmark, and Morocco. Each time – months in advance of the trip – we would get hold of the Lonely Planet book and pore over its pages as we planned what we…
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 MORELong-time-no-write … because Barby and I find ourselves in Copenhagen for a conference (more on that later) with the flights over here providing the opportunity for watching some movies. We’ve come a long way from The Sound of Music, a linear story (beginning at the beginning and progressing to the end) with basically a single…
READ MOREAs many readers of this blog may be aware, I announced my resignation as Principal of Carey Baptist College last week. I have been appointed Associate Director (Langham Preaching) and will be starting in this role in 2009. The plan is to be based in Auckland for 3-4 years before relocating to somewhere in South…
READ MOREHere are ten reasons why you should have a garage sale in order to raise money to buy this book for every Christian young adult you know. Timothy Keller, The Reason for God; Belief in an Age of Skepticism (Dutton, 2008). Keller is pastor of a church in Manhattan. One over-indulgent (!) Keller fan has…
READ MOREWith the surge and surgical strike of these previous posts there is something else on my mind. I continue to be alarmed at how often I hear people having a ‘faith-crisis’ or moving into a ‘post’ space of some kind where the faith-stuff they once held close no longer holds much significance for them. It…
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.