JJ Lewis,  a former Principal of Trinity Methodist Theological College note that with the bible eventually, “we cease to do the examining and become the examined. It becomes our own story.” How does that happen? Learn more with theology in 180 seconds, more or less.

Adam The Universal Man And Eve The Mother Of All Living

A serendipity recording of David Bell and Stuart Manins discussing how to read Robert Browning's poem Grow old along with me. This was one of Yoko Ono's favorite poems and she persuaded John Lennon to create the hit Grow Old with Me.

Grow Old Along With Me

Who are the real time travellers? We are. Yet as Albert Einstein remarked, time is a stubborn, persistent illusion. So what do you make of the nature of time? David Bell, David Ersamus and Stuart Manins explore what time means to them and invite you to make your response.

The Time Travellers

Simple yet powerful techniques for understanding how food, body, mind and spirituality can interact for vibrant health. Laurel Kells, qualified in nutrition science and coaching, as well as practical ministry from a Christian perspective, has a positive, engaging message for young women and men.  Learn more with Live-on-air https://kiwiconnexion.nz/view/view.php?id=1387

Food And You With Nutrition Coach Laurel Kells

From Maori legend is the story of why the Pohutukawa blossoms blood-red at the height of summer. Tawhaki's chant to his spilt blood went like this:
It grows upon the hair of your head
and on your brow the blood grows red -
the blood, the blood of Tawhaki,
and of the sun and moon
and of the auspicious sky - 
of the sky now above.
Learn more about our Christmas resources https://kiwiconnexion.nz/view/view.php?id=31

A New Zealand Christmas Story Tawhaki And The Pohutukawa

This time I'm talking about the music of the spheres: Revelations of unsounded notes and the timbres of silence. Making music is fundamental to human culture. Dancing, drawing, singing, and playing musical instruments are activities from time immemorial. They are ordinary yet quite extraordinary things to do; a miracle of human imagination.

The Music Of The Spheres

Two old soldiers share their memories one Christmas Eve. It becomes an epiphany for them, just being able to briefly say what they want in a congregation that cares. Wisdom for all of us?

An Old Soldier On Guard Duty In Bethlehem

Impossible? 
We’ve all heard that word too many times. The world is over-populated with people who say this is the way something is, and it can’t be changed. Truth be known, the vast majority of us have at one time or another said something can’t be done, it’s impossible. And, we’ve all been proven wrong.  Learn the one essential gospel truth about the possible.

Absolutely, Definitely, Not Impossible

A Simple Offering 60 Years kiwiconnexion practical theology is a dialogue between Rev ian Faulkner and Prof Peter Lineham, hosted by David Bell. 

It explores church history on Auckland's North Shore. Although it focuses on Trinity-at-Waiake Methodist Church's 60th anniversary in June 2018, it sets this into a wider social context.

1950s Evangelical Bulwark Against Communism
1960s Beatlemania and Worship Charisma | The Death of God?
1970s We Protest Left and Right | Locating Social Conscience
1980s Bicultural Church and Society | Treaty of Waitangi
1990s Open and Hidden Agendas | Multicultures, Feminism, Gay Rights
2000s Methodism Splits | A House Divided Against Itself 
2010s New Directions in a  Connected Secular Society

A Simple Offering 60 Years Kiwiconnexion Practical Theology 1

Stuart Macadam, co-host of Live on Air talks about his role as a football coach for junior soccer teams and how that spills over into life coaching.

Crazy About Coaching For Grassroots Football

How Clear, How Lovely Bright, by A E Housman (1859-1936) is a poem for difficult times. The inspirational subject matter has a marked application in these difficult days of the Covid-19 pandemic. It seems to offer a far more than average appreciation of how to live as a Christian than many conventional sermons and prayers.

How clear, how lovely bright,
How beautiful to sight
    Those beams of morning play;
How heaven laughs out with glee
Where, like a bird set free,
Up from the eastern sea
    Soars the delightful day.

To-day I shall be strong,
No more shall yield to wrong,
    Shall squander life no more;
Days lost, I know not how,
I shall retrieve them now;
Now I shall keep the vow
    I never kept before.

Ensanguining the skies
How heavily it dies
    Into the west away;
Past touch and sight and sound
Not further to be found,
How hopeless under ground
    Falls the remorseful day.

Written in the 1880s it wasn't published, until just after Housman's death.   The poem got a new burst of energy when it was used in the Inspector Morse tv series. The last stanza was uttered by Morse shortly before his death in the final episode.

John McWade reads the poem and did the typography. John is the internationally known and much appreciated writer of Before and After Magazine. In short, a graphic designer/typographer of note. The typeface in the video is  Averia Libre Regular, a Google font.  Find more of John's videos on his YouTube channel
https://www.youtube.com/user/bamagazine

Michael Bell's original composition captures the essence of the word spoken and text written. He's an organist, pianist, and music teacher at Kings School, Auckland. You can find more of his compositions on his Facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/michael.c.bell.397

The MDF woodcuts are a sequence by me, David Bell. They were inked with Akua Intaglio Inks, and printed on a variety of printmaking papers of various weights. John Brebner designed and built the Yellow Xpress, for relief printing.

For more theology in difficult times visit David Bell's Far Country Tales, sermons for any occasion.
https://youtu.be/HSPs6DKVU7c

How Clear, How Lovely Bright By A E Housman

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