Audience matters: A Christian in the media talks 2015. Grant Dixon, a documentary producer and Baptist church member, sees the coming decade of broadcasting on internet as similar to the first few years of New Zealand on Air. Then, when broadcasting was all new, there was an opportunity for newbies to get in on the… Read More Budding media producers need to know their audience to stand apart
Art with a message 2000. Art was at one time a “neglected species” in the Christian world, “but I believe God has Sovereignly decided that now is the time for a Second Renaissance, because we live in a sight and sound generation,” enthuses Ron DiCianni, a Christian artist who heralds from Chicago, Illinois, USA.
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‘The medium and me’: Remembering a Christian in the newspaper industry Former New Zealand Herald journalist Garth George was a ‘Christian in the media’. When he officially retired from full time secular journalism, he edited non-denominational newspaper Challenge Weekly for two years and continued writing his weekly column for the New Zealand Herald. He was… Read More “The media are becoming more secular, more worldly, more sensational, more down market, and, therefore, more unchristian then ever”
Around the world with your baggage 2002. It’s no easy road finding God. At least, for Ian Head (Pictured above). In 1956, he was going to end his life by jumping off the Westminster Bridge in London. A pull to go to the remotest part of the world was stronger. Ian arrived in Wellington, New… Read More Brought up in a home for boys was hard, then life turned for the better
2004/2013. David Moxon became an Archbishop of the Anglican Church in New Zealand and then the Anglican representative to the Vatican in Rome for five years. This was a little of a trajectory of his activities in my interview with him starting with the interview in 2004 and then the interview in 2013. Starting with… Read More New Zealand Archbishop delivered lectures on The Lord of the Rings
2013. This is Anglican Archbishop David Moxon’s “review” of the first Hobbit movie via an interview I did with him in 2013.
2004. I interviewed David Moxon (pictured above), the then Bishop of the Waikato (in New Zealand), about The Lord of the Rings movies that were released in the theatre. It seems quite timely to publish that interview in light of the latest ‘incarnation’ of the Lord of the Rings in the media in 2022. Here… Read More Archbishop’s review: “A serious misunderstanding of Tolkien’s intentions,” he says to criticisms “The Return of the King” is out of touch with reality
Envisaging and innovating the future Church 2002. Wellington Pastor Anthony Walton views writing books, including his latest, Future Church: Church by Design, as a leadership tool for producing vision, “casting a direction the church needs to head down”.
Cancer victim keeps the faith in face of death 2014. A junior doctor struggling with bowel cancer believes he had the God-given strength to finish his studies, qualify as a doctor and work whilst being treated. He has also been overwhelmed and lost for words at the generosity of sympathizers.
Doubly successful in marriage 2013. A retired New Zealand vicar who’s been blessed with two long, happy marriages knows the secret of success. Cecil Marshall, now eighty-six, was married to Barbara for 40 years. After her death 18 years ago, he was devastated but remarried and has enjoyed another 17 years of marriage to Margaret.
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