Finding the Gift

Finding the Gift

Finding the Gift (it’s my birthday you see!)By Steve Varney I have always understood retirement would be a gift for having ‘lasted’ that long working, I deserved to have a rest and enjoy my free time. Having just hit that age of retirement at 65 (in fact today is that...
Hearts of Rebellion

Hearts of Rebellion

Hearts of RebellionBy Simone Varney To write “Not Yet a Human” on your clearly pregnant, basketball sized belly is interesting. I’m a woman who’s been denied the privilege of bearing a child, yet what I’ve observed of other’s experience suggests I would have come to a...
Open Letter To The Churches Of New Zealand

Open Letter To The Churches Of New Zealand

An Open Letter To The Churches Of New ZealandOn the top of the New Zealand coat of arms there is a crown. On the top of that crown there is a cross. This symbolises that even the monarch is subject to God. That the State is under God has been the traditional position...
I Am Not A Leper

I Am Not A Leper

I Am Not A LeperIn days gone, societies used to banish lepers forbidding them to mix with normal society. They were to identify themselves and cry ‘unclean, unclean’ to warn people around them. Lepers could not go to the temple, until the priest had declared them...
Whose Planet Is It?

Whose Planet Is It?

Healing The Land Podcast by By Bruce Billington https://wildfireaustralia.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Healing-the-Land.mp3 Whose Planet Is It Anyway?This month I want to address the really hot topic of climate change. There are so many arguments and so much...