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Category: Rethinking Christianity

Bethlehem beckons beyond Anxiety
Christmas

Bethlehem beckons beyond Anxiety

Posted on November 17, 2019November 17, 2019 by Sande Ramage

About this time every year my old friend Anxiety shows up as an obnoxious Christmas goblin. I swear it’s HER decorating shops for Christmas in…

Imagine Easter unplugged
Art

Imagine Easter unplugged

Posted on May 15, 2019October 15, 2019 by Sande Ramage

A resounding hallelujah ended the Easter singing marathon I’d promised myself. As I staggered out exhausted into the night, I was musing over what had…

Ashes to ashes
Church

Ashes to ashes

Posted on March 16, 2019March 16, 2019 by Sande Ramage

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust makes real sense at the end of someone’s life. People get it. Somehow, without saying much, the words shout…

Being enough undermines Christmas shopping
Christmas

Being enough undermines Christmas shopping

Posted on January 6, 2019January 7, 2019 by Sande Ramage

By 9am on Boxing Day thousands of Kiwis were touting their unwanted pressies on Trade Me or searching for bargains amongst someone else’s discards. Practical,…

Dump mansplaining Godde this Christmas
Christmas

Dump mansplaining Godde this Christmas

Posted on December 24, 2018December 24, 2018 by Sande Ramage

You’ve got to hand it to the blokes in the church, for their ability to keep mansplaining Godde for our own good. Recently, the Archbishop of…

No God without Godde
Church

No God without Godde

Posted on November 18, 2018November 18, 2018 by Sande Ramage

Standing up to speak I felt tentative, but it wasn’t the slight stomach turning before a speaking gig or worry about whether the technological wizardry…

Rethinking organisational capture, collusion and reciprocity
Compassion

Rethinking organisational capture, collusion and reciprocity

Posted on September 23, 2018September 26, 2018 by Sande Ramage

I have a dream that spirituality and soulfulness can be creatively reimagined for our time through inspirational workplaces that take meaning making, compassion and connectedness…

No fancy phrases
Faith

No fancy phrases

Posted on July 30, 2018 by Sande Ramage

The thing is Godde when I speak to you I find that I’m pretty incoherent. No fancy phrases, or lucid lines as if I’m not…

Flinging open doorways to The More
Art

Flinging open doorways to The More

Posted on July 23, 2018July 23, 2018 by Sande Ramage

There’ll be no return to church, said The Analyst in reflective mode, ‘until they get rid of the homily.’ He was musing, not on the…

Full immerson: Jungian slow release from the Christian ties that bind
Books

Full immerson: Jungian slow release from the Christian ties that bind

Posted on July 22, 2018July 22, 2018 by Sande Ramage

A workshop at Common Ground Conference Progressive Christianity Aotearoa Saturday 8th September 2018 Abstract Blogging about spirituality drew sharp criticism from church authorities who determined…

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