The burqa has been in the news since two women were denied entry on Auckland buses recently. As most readers will know, burqa is the black outer garment worn by women of some Islamic traditions to cover their bodies in public.
The Church in this country has become limp-wristed on the issues that really matter! I’m sorry to have to say this, but that just seems to be the reality.
An article in our local newspaper, the Daily Post, the other day gave me hope that young people themselves might have found at least part of the answer to New Zealand’s dreadful rate of suicide among their number.
The recent Rob Bell book, Love Wins, A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived, has brought so-called ‘Evangelical Universalism’ into the spotlight in mainstream popular Christianity. Universalism itself is an old idea able to be traced back to early church thinkers like Origen.
"The case for decriminalisation [of drugs]” said a headline in the New Zealand Herald last week, and I said to myself, “Here we go again. Let’s get rid of the drug problem and its enormous cost by making the stuff legal”.
