Nov 10, 2017 | Articles, Canvas, News
Wellington staff worker Max Rideout took up the challenge to be part of the first two performances of The Mark Drama. It’s an interactive, 90-minute performance of Jesus’ life as recorded by Mark. The actors are not professionals. As invitations go out to...
Nov 9, 2017 | Canvas, Editorial
In a world where we can’t always keep up with what’s happened today, we don’t often go to the trouble of wrapping our heads around the long ago. However at uni I was lucky enough to find lecturers with a gift for bringing old stories into the present, so I dabbled in...
Oct 30, 2017 | Articles, Canvas, World
In the summer of 2013, Zach Smith was on the verge of entering student ministry. He told his story in Canvas that year—how he’d met IFES workers at an Urbana conference, had a burden for seeing a stronger gospel witness in Europe, and was applying for a two-year stint...
Sep 5, 2017 | Articles, Canvas, Features
Answers to an epidemic of isolation and mental suffering are as close as our own two hands. Esther and Wilson Chan share their perspective as church and community members who come alongside young people. Wilson is the Youth Minister at St George’s in Epsom, Auckland....
Sep 5, 2017 | Canvas, Features
The number of students who report poor levels of emotional wellbeing at Victoria University has remained at 45% for the past three years. Gerard Hoffman, Manager of Student Counselling Services, wrote in Salient on 10 April, 2017 that factors include: Increasing...
Sep 5, 2017 | Canvas, Views
When I was in my third year of studying medicine, things in my life started spiralling downhill. I was hardly sleeping or eating, was having trouble concentrating at university, and was feeling incredibly low and anxious about life. I was having thoughts that my...
