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Election Year Social Justice Forum

Monday, 4 August 2008, 11:17 am | St Andrew's on The Terrace

A forum with church agencies working for social justice. Featuring questions and answers with politicians from the main political parties. More >>

Spirited Conversations: Antarctica

Monday, 23 June 2008, 5:33 pm | St Andrew's on The Terrace

"Antarctica: the last 300 million years and the next 300" Featuring Dr Gavin Dunbar from Victoria University's Antarctic Research Centre. More >>

St Andrew's on The Terrace Eco-theologian

Friday, 22 February 2008, 12:00 am | St Andrew's on The Terrace

The St Andrew’s Trust for the Study of Religion and Society is pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Larry Rasmussen as the 2008 Geering Lecturer. Professor Rasmussen will present a series of four lectures on the themes of his award-winning ... More >>

Geering Heresy Trial to be Celebrated

Thursday, 25 October 2007, 4:38 pm | St Andrew's on The Terrace

Order of New Zealand recipient and New Zealand’s most famous theologian Lloyd Geering is set to celebrate with colleagues, friends and interested members of the public 40 years since his landmark heresy trial began. More >>

Geering Heresy Trial to be Celebrated

Thursday, 25 October 2007, 4:38 pm | St Andrew's on The Terrace

Order of New Zealand recipient and New Zealand’s most famous theologian Lloyd Geering is set to celebrate with colleagues, friends and interested members of the public 40 years since his landmark heresy trial began. More >>

Event 24/9: Philosophic Purpose In The Modern Arts

Friday, 14 September 2007, 4:30 pm | St Andrew's on The Terrace

Hosted by St Andrew's on The Terrace at the Dog and Bone Pub on Monday 24th September, 7 - 9 pm (Downstairs in the Whisky Bar), 132 Lambton Quay (opposite Stout Street). You are welcome to come early for a meal and a drink. More >>

Lament for the Children of Aotearoa

Wednesday, 2 May 2007, 4:02 pm | St Andrew's on The Terrace

Ill-treatment is a reality for many children in Aotearoa New Zealand. Our rate of deaths from ill-treatment is high in comparison to other industrialised countries. Eleven children under fifteen are killed each year in New Zealand by the people who ... More >>

Public Meeting: Faith and Public Policy

Tuesday, 24 April 2007, 12:36 am | St Andrew's on The Terrace

“When Freedoms Collide" is the theme of a series of public meetings during the visit to New Zealand by the Very Rev The Hon Dr Lois Wilson. The theme integrates her specialist areas of human rights and religious diversity. More >>

St Andrew's Hands Over Oral History Recordings

Monday, 16 April 2007, 11:42 am | St Andrew's on The Terrace

On Wednesday 18 April, a set of 12 oral history interviews with ministers and people of St Andrew's will be handed over to the Alexander Turnbull Library. The interviews are with members and former members of the congregation, including the Very Rev John ... More >>

St. Andrew's on The Terrace shocked by decision

Friday, 29 September 2006, 3:45 pm | St Andrew's on The Terrace

St. Andrew's on The Terrace along with other progressive Presbyterian congregations is shocked but defiant in the face of the news today that the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church ratified its ban on gay and lesbian leadership in the church. More >>

Spirituality Potential Key to Suicide Prevention

Monday, 5 June 2006, 1:53 pm | St Andrew's on The Terrace

Australian health professionals are turning to spirituality with the failure of current approaches to cut the youth suicide rate. Melbourne-based David Tacey, who is visiting Wellington's St Andrew’s on The Terrace from June 6 to 15 says that, while that’s ... More >>

"Diversity: What are we afraid of?"

Monday, 20 February 2006, 2:00 pm | St Andrew's on The Terrace

Come and join us for another edition of this exciting event in the Wellington Café scene ... "Diversity: What are we afraid of?" Featuring Joris de Bres, Race Relations Commissioner More >>

Inspiring Christmas Art

Monday, 12 December 2005, 5:09 pm | St Andrew's on The Terrace

In an art exhibition currently on display at St Andrew’s on The Terrace, you won’t find the traditional nativity scene. Mary and the Christ Child float, suspended from the ceiling; Three Wise Ones push a shopping cart filled with gifts for the food ... More >>

Religion ancient and post-modern

Thursday, 17 November 2005, 1:01 pm | St Andrew's on The Terrace

St Andrew’s on The Terrace, a Presbyterian Church in the heart of Wellington, is this month sponsoring two events which invite Wellingtonians to reflect on the role of spirituality in the world. The first of these is a series of two lectures by renowned ... More >>

The New Believers: the Good and Bad News

Wednesday, 21 September 2005, 10:50 am | St Andrew's on The Terrace

Today's new believers are re-imagining God to embrace the self-help movement, the Westernisation of Buddhism and environmentalism. More >>

John Pilger film on at St Andrews on Terrace

Monday, 1 August 2005, 9:51 am | St Andrew's on The Terrace

The Social Justice group of St. Andrew's on The Terrace is holding a film evening this Thursday 4 August at 7:30 pm at Crossways Community House. More >>

Geering Lecturer Introduces “Indecent Theology”

Thursday, 28 July 2005, 1:32 pm | St Andrew's on The Terrace

Dr Marcella Althaus-Reid, the St Andrew’s Trust for the Study of Religion and Society 2005 Geering Lecturer, has been as influential as she has been controversial in insisting that all theology is sexual theology. More >>

The Cost of Cutting Taxes

Monday, 11 July 2005, 10:55 am | St Andrew's on The Terrace

Cutting taxes may seem attractive. But the cost of tax cuts as a result of consequent cuts to spending is often studiously ignored by those who promote them. More >>

Public Lecture - Re-Imagining the Divine

Friday, 11 February 2005, 10:16 am | St Andrew's on The Terrace

Carol P. Christ, a pioneer in the study of women and religion in the Goddess and women’s spirituality movements, is visiting New Zealand in February/ March 2005 hosted by Massey University. More >>

Sex, Race and Religion - an unstable cocktail?

Thursday, 11 November 2004, 9:21 am | St Andrew's on The Terrace

Profiling on the basis of race and religion - a subtext in the Zaoui case, attacks on Jewish graves, the recent decision of the Presbyterian Church to discriminate against gays and de factos in leadership, and the shadowy emergence of the Destiny ... More >>

   

 
 
 
 
 

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