Tui Motu InterIslands Magazine
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EDITORIAL: Life After Lockdown
Lockdown has been amazing — a resurrection experience. Even while COVID-19 spread death around the world, new life paradoxically ... Read more…COLUMN: Live This Time with Decency
As people around the world are contained to their homes, the appearance of choice and personal freedoms seems increasingly scarce. Read more…Looking Out and In — May 2020
Long ago, mid-way through Lent this year, the COVID-19 pandemic thrust forward and pushed us all into a new world that was never part ... Read more…COLUMN: Cross Currents
CLANZ, the Congregational Leaders of Women’s and Men’s Religious Congregations in New Zealand, met in February. The theme of their ... Read more…ARTICLE: Developing Our Conscience
Neil Darragh discusses the need to develop our conscience in order to make informed personal and collective moral decisions. Read more…ARTICLE: All Manner of Things Will Be Well
Greg Marcar offers us encouragement to notice new theological insights evolving during this time of pandemic. Read more…ARTICLE: Not the Same Again
Elizabeth Mackie encourages us to think about the world we'd like to live in post COVID-19. Read more…Tree Planting for Life
Bruce Drysdale describes his street's participation in tree planting. Read more…ARTICLE: Choose Well as Life is Sacred
Zain Ali discusses how to weigh questions when making a moral decision about life in the Islamic tradition. Read more…ARTICLE: Being Ready to Go
Alofa Lale reflects on her parents' last months and their deaths. Read more…ARTICLE: Learning from COVID-19 the Value of Every Life
John Kleinsman writes how our experience of lockdown to prevent COVID-19-causing illness and death could inform our decision-making ... Read more…ARTICLE: Choosing Life After Loss
Katrin Eickhorst shares how she became involved with Seasons for Growth, an educational programme to assist in recovering from loss ... Read more…ARTICLE: Prayer and Living Fully
Audrea Warner shares her journey with illness and the influence healing has had on her life. Read more…COMMENT: Lockdown Is Like a Retreat
Wendy Ward compares the opportunities of lockdown and those of a retreat. Read more…POEM: Courage
It started smallLike a tiny ripple on a glassy lakeLike a slender petal soon to unfurl into a vibrant blossomLike the first whisper of ... Read more…POEM: Tell How it Happened
John 20:10-18 Read more…POEM: The Question
Love’s hypnotic questionasks that you be penitent, or joyous or trembling asks that you step outday after day intoa recurring beauty Read more…COMMENT: Living in Lockdown
Shanti and Shar Mathias each reflect on living in lockdown with its challenges and ordinariness. Read more…COMMENT: Grace and Peace Can Transform our Fear
These days, as COVID-19 is robbing people of their livelihoods, threatening to crowd out everything else in our minds and ... Read more…COMMENT: Time to Make All Things New
Recently we named and blessed three kōhatu mauri or life-force stones in keeping with a traditional Māori practice for helping people ... Read more…COMMENT: Kindness Is Practising Love
We’ve been in lockdown, Level 4 of our government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. It's been an extraordinary time. While some may ... Read more…I Am with You on the Way — John 14:1-21
Kathleen Rushton reflects on Jesus’s farewell address in John 14:1-21 in light our challenges in this time of COVID-19. Read more…SCRIPTURE: I Am Sending You
Elaine Wainwright suggests how the readings for Pentecost Sunday can encourage us to work together for Earth in this COVID-19 world. Read more…BOOK REVIEW: Breathed into Wholeness: Catholicity and Life in the Spirit
By Mary Frohlich. Published by Orbis Books, 2019. Reviewed by Regina Daly Read more…BOOK REVIEW: To Speak the Truth in Love: A Biography of Theresa Kane, RSM
By Christine Schenk. Published by Orbis Books, 2019. Reviewed by Elizabeth Julian Read more…BOOK REVIEW: A Maze of Grace
By Natalie Yule Yeoman. Published by Cuba Press Limited, 2019. Reviewed by Emma Melville Riddell Read more…BOOK REVIEW: A Living Gospel: Reading God’s Story in Holy Lives
By Robert Ellsberg. Published by Orbis Books, 2019. Reviewed by Teresa McNamara Read more…Video: FILM REVIEW: Lucky
Directed by John Carroll Lynch. Reviewed by Paul Sorrell Read more…Blessing for this Time of Covid-19
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