Posts from August 2024

A discussion with my flatmate:Me: I could just drop out at the end of this year Alex: Mon you wouldn’t be dropping out you would be graduating!Me: Oh yeah…  I am currently in the final semester of my undergraduate degree at UC and I am working out the plan for the next year. I have an exciting, awful, annoying, deliberating worm inside my head that decides to speak up when I have assignments I should be focussed on instead… I am tossing and turning…

“The preaching of Peter and Paul and all the witnesses of the Risen Jesus says that two basic things are demanded of us. First: we must acknowledge our own share in what the cross is and represents; we must learn to see ourselves as caught up in a world where the innocent are scapegoated and killed and where we are all unwilling, to a greater or lesser degree, to face unwelcome truths about ourselves. We must learn to see that…

I had an adventure this week, travelling on a small plane to Blenheim.  There were just six of us on board, and the roar of the engine meant that it wasn’t possible to speak to one another.  It was a clear afternoon.  I sat back, zoned out and watched the ground disappear from under me.  The Canterbury plains became a haphazard patchwork of small squares, and I could see where the braided rivers touched the sea.  It reminded me of…

Hello lovely Ilamites,I’ve been working here in our office at 51 Ilam road today and thinking about what to write for the musing this week. As I think back over these last few weeks at Ilam I wanted to write a musing in praise of all our volunteers. As a church we have heaps of opportunities for people to volunteer – most churches would crash in a heaps without them and Ilam Baptist is no exception. There are heaps of…