The Olive Branch - 2023

23 November 2023

Rev. Dr Andrew Callander, 1. Authentic and hopeful in Christ - beginning with what is wrong  2. Authentic and hopeful in Christ - beginning with what is life-giving

PCANZ General Assembly 2023, Keynote Address

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12 October 2023

A better response to the decline of the Christian West, Mac Loftin, Christian Century, 13 September 2023

  



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31 August 2023

The Peculiar Case of Presbyterian Church Schools, Graham Redding
New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies, 1  August 2023

Open access
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40841-023-00298-z

Introductory interview video - Sharon Ensor & Richard Lawrence




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August 2023 

Philip Larkin, Church Going 

The Guardian view on ‘post-Christian’ Britain:  A spiritual enigma, Editorial, The Guardian.com, 28 March, 2021
Gavin Hoops, The Religious Turn in Fleabag, Tranpositions.co.uk, 24 May 2019

Introductory audio interview with Alistair McBride

  (some cafe noise in the background) 


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15 June 2023


The Jesus of K Road: Theological Reflections on Maori and homelessness, Byron Rangiwai

Te Kaharoa, Vol.14, 2021



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22 May 2023


It might be emerging, but is it church? Kevin Ward

Stimulus, Vol. 17, No. 4, Nov. 2009



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17 March  2023 -


The Stories We Tell Ourselves, Nomad Podcast, Gareth Higgens

Sharon introduces Gareth Higgens in this introductory-interview video (3 mins). Gareth in the podcasts talks about his friend Mike Riddell, which is why Mike appears in the video at one point.

Link to the podcast:
https://www.nomadpodcast.co.uk/gareth-higgins-the-stories-we-tell-ourselves-n291/


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1 March 2023

How Minds Change - The New Science of Belief, Opinion and Persuasion, David McRaney (2022)

Guest Brian Ensor introduces McRaney's book, and especially Chapter 3 - Socks and Crocs.  He refers to the internet phenomenon (2015) of 'the dress', which some people see as white and gold, and others see as black and blue.  He also mentions former conspiracy theorist, Charlie Veitch, who changed his mind about 9/11.




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February, 2023


Becoming Pakeha, John Bluck (2022), especially pp. 284-290

https://e-tangata.co.nz/identity/becoming-pakeha-a-work-in-progress/

https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/john-bluck-writes/story/2018701079/john-bluck-asks-who-wants-to-be-a-pakeha-episode-1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bluck