What’s Changed
Mike Bain New Zealand is a first-class country run by second-rate people. Harsh? Perhaps. Wrong? Take a look around. After weeks of election promises, slogans and carefully scripted announcements, one…
WHAT LENS ARE YOU LOOKING THROUGH?
Why two people can see the same facts and arrive at completely different conclusions One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter. Nobody really knows who first said it, but…
The opportunity passing by
If you travel by car on the road between Whenuakite and Cooks Beach in February, you miss what is often referred to as the sound of silence. During my summers…
When Charity Status Becomes a Battleground
There was a time when charitable status for a church, ministry, or Christian organisation was largely taken for granted. It was an acknowledgement that whatever one’s theological convictions, these groups…
“If preaching the Word was a crime, would you be convicted?”
Editorial: Mike Bain Forty years ago, my first radio boss asked me a question that stripped me bare: “If being a personality was a crime, would you be convicted?” It…
The Unthinkable: The World on the Brink of Four Simultaneous Conflicts
As published in The Daily Examiner News Website and based on the Christian Voice New Zealand podcast: The Unthinkable It’s hard for the typical New Zealand citizen to imagine that…
He Wore a Chaplains Shirt.
The following is a word of appreciation I wrote to the New Zealand Chaplains group following my time in hospital in 2022 after a near fatal accident which nearly took…
CALL FOR GREATER EQUALITY AND ACCESS TO LAND
Ever since I sat down to write this blog, I have struggled with its content. It concerns race issues, relating to New Zealand, but it is a message which goes…
True Church in New Zealand: Reality vs. Expectation
A young farmworker finds himself outside of church in a well to do part of a city. He gets out of his muddy Ute which he has parked in the…
Dissension leading to civil strife
I want to talk about what is going down in the middle east, but first I want to talk to you about what’s going down in our own hood. Currently,…