Jesus wasn’t resurrected all shiny new, he still bore the wounds of his execution in/on his resurrected body. This has been an issue for many throughout the church's history, and some have sought to erase his wounds from the resurrection story. But scripture is clear, the scars remained. What might this mean?
Read MoreCheck out these upcoming Holy Week and Easter Sunday events. We would love to see you there.
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Read MoreAlistair Reese is joining us on March 18th, 7-8pm in Te Whare Hononga to discuss his kauhau at the Waitangi Day Dawn Service. Please register here…
Read MoreWildernesses, whatever they may be for us, are places fraught with difficulty, but they can also be places of goodness and growth. Wilderness places are difficult to pin down; they are places filled with beauty and
Read MoreMark 1:40-45 narrates Jesus’ encounter with a man with a skin disease. Encounter means to "unexpectedly be faced with or experience something hostile or difficult or "to meet someone unexpectedly."
Read MoreToitū Te Tiriti. All are welcome at Te Whare Hononga on Waitangi Day - to sit and reflect in our beautiful whare.
37 Vivian Street, New Plymouth. Open 9am-3pm
Read More"During Advent we anticipate the coming of a Messiah. During Christmas season we celebtate the coming of a Messiah. During Epiphany we reflect on the nature of the Messiah who has come, and we face the risky problem of how we are to act on the basis of our reflection." (Robert McAfee Brown) …
Read MoreThe story of the Magi’s sojourn to Jesus is a story full of contrasts: insiders and outsiders, places power and privilege versus the margins, fear and anxiety versus curiosity and wonder. Contrasts are good because they can break open the doors to our hearts and minds and help us encounter God in Scripture in new ways, ways that have the potential to be liberating, healing, and hope-filled.
Read MoreAs we gather together to recall and celebrate the arrival of Christ, my prayer, my hope, is that you, that we, amid the noise, find some space and time to reflect deeply on the incarnation, that incredible event in which God, in all God's mystery and unfathomableness and otherness, became human.
Read More"Hopepunk" is a hopeful literary response to "grimdark," a type of fiction with a tone, style, or setting that is particularly dystopian, amoral, and violent. More than a storytelling movement, however, hopepunk is a way of being; it's a commitment to "keep fighting, no matter what." If that seems airy fairy, consider the concept of hope. What does it entail? Love, kindness, faith in humanity, and, for us Christians, faith in God.
Read MoreThis Advent, I (along with some others) am journeying with Saint Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, from 1977 to 1980. We are reflecting on his life and work and reading and discussing his writings, particularly Romero's four 1978 Advent sermons. Over the coming Sundays of Advent, Oscar Romero will be our guide too. Welcome to Advent with St. Oscar Romero.
Read MoreCome and join us (Wednesday 22nd November, 7pm, in the Vicarage) for a conversation with Johnny Sertin. Together, we will look at how one might find a way home when one feels displaced by a colonial ancestry and explore faith in a post-Christian industrial landscape. We look forward to seeing you there.
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Read MoreThe rainbow community and the Taranaki Cathedral will keep putting out a positive message about love after a sign was defaced in central New Plymouth.
Read MoreThe Following Speech was delivered online, by Jay Ruka, to the 2020 Tear Fund Justice Conference. It is directed toward the Church and Christian organisations but is relevant and applicable to any institution in Aotearoa/New Zealand.
Read More"I wondered, how I could take it to the opposite of that spectrum of fear and just make it the most outrageously positive idea that we've ever seen?"
Read MoreA new whare (house) that creates a space to bring the Taranaki Cathedral community and mana whenua together and establish the Sir Paul Reeves Centre, will be officially opened with a dawn blessing in Ngāmotu New Plymouth today.
Read MoreFor Parekura Collins, a new memorial to honour rangatira of his Waikato iwi was not only a fitting tribute to his fallen tūpuna, but a way to restore the mana of their final resting place.
Read MorePūkākā Pā is just one of the thousands of places filled with stories ripe for the telling, and the new Aotearoa New Zealand Histories curriculum represents a chance for these stories to finally be told in schools – but teachers and Māori are being asked to learn and build these stories with insufficient resources.
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