Global Day of Prayer 2009
GLOBAL DAY OF PRAYER was held on Pentecost Sunday: 31st May 2009. We are thrilled that so many churches, towns and cities have participat...
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Religion in Schools submission to HRC
Religion in New Zealand Schools Questions and Concerns 2009 (Draft Document) Submission from Visionnetwork of New Zealand June 2009 Introduction We are thankful for this opportunity to respond...
Should a smack as part of good parental correction be a criminal offence in NZ?
This is the question New Zealanders will be asked in the referendum that will be held at the end of July. Visionnetwork National Director Glyn Carpenter says he is surprised so many people are having...
Sport, God and the Gospel in a NZ Context
By Ken Youngson Overview The Bible makes little mention of sport. But in the absence of any direct biblical reference, this paper seeks to construct a theology of sport and Christian involvement under...
Biblical Perspectives on Disability
Authored by Corey Scott & Dr George Wieland (Edited by Evan Clulee & Dr Murray Rae) Background In New Zealand, people with disabilities make up 20% of the population (New Zealand Census, 2001)....
Congress book study guide - Why Christians Must Care for the Earth
The following comes to you as one of a series of papers drawing from the chapters of the recently published Vision Congress ‘08 book New Vision New Zealand Volume III. I am drafting these for use in...
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Religion in Schools submission to HRC
Religion in New Zealand Schools Questions and Concerns 2009 (Draft Document) Submission from Visionnetwork of New Zealand June 2009 Introduction We are thankful for this opportunity to respond...
Slow Train Coming: Religious Liberty in the Last Days
By Rex Tauati Ahdar* Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Otago, Dunedin First published in (2009) 12 Otago Law Review 37 This article is based on the author's Inaugural Professorial Lecture delivered...
Growth of Chinese missions
The Call2All Congress early this month in Hong Kong, was organised by about 17 of the world's largest mission agencies, which is estimated to represent about 85 per cent of the world's missions force....
Religion in Education Guidelines and the Statement on Religious Diversity - a recent chronology
2002 October The Bali bombings prompted the Australian and Indonesian governments to organise a dialogue involving faith community leaders and political representatives to reduce the...
Recent Developments in Interfaith Dialogue In New Zealand
Part 1 of a chapter by Glyn Carpenter Printed in the book New Vision Vol III (Tabernacle Publishing, 2008) Part 1 of this paper sets out to summarize recent activity in interfaith dialogue in...
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Rethinking crime and punishment
In April this year, over 100 people met to identify the key issues at a Drivers of Crime ministerial meeting. Initiated by Rethinking Crime and Punishment (RCAP) - one of the networks with which visionnetwork...
Questions in the economic crisis
National church leaders met the Prime Minister, John Key, and the Minister of Finance, Bill English, in April, and told them it is just as important for New Zealand to emerge from the recession with...
Christians and the death penalty
"The World Day Against the Death Penalty, should give Christians nationwide the opportunity to reflect on their personal position on the death penalty." That is the view of Kim Workman, former National...
Budget has some bright spots
"There are a number of things to cheer about in this year's budget," said visionnetwork's National Director Glyn Carpenter. "Faced with the need to deliver a tight budget for challenging times, the new...
Evangelicals in the US
This New York Review of Books (April 2007) contains a perspective on evangelicalism in the American political context which has some important insights for evangelicals in NZ. It presents the view that...
