What’s next? Church on the other side of Omicron
A recent article from the Evangelical Alliance in Britain explored how churches might respond to a lifting of government imposed COVID-19 rules.1 This …
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Has the time come to act?
In this opinion piece Andrew Clark-Howard continues the dialogue on mandates, vaccinations, protests and theology. A week on from my previous post (…
The other half of what we owe each other
Andrew Clark-Howard's assessment of the anti mandate protest (What we owe each other: freedom, protest, and responsibility) draws upon excellent resour…
Biblical principles for churches wrestling with vaccine mandates
Recently, John Tucker, Principal of our theological college (Carey Baptist College) received an email from one of the leaders in our movement of church…
What we owe each other: freedom, protest, and responsibility
We’ve all seen it; the images and videos on our screen of people gathering to protest at parliament with a rather bewildering array of placards and pol…
Caring for each other helps in many ways: churches respond to the pandemic
An earlier version of this article was published in the Otago Daily Times on 15 October 2021. Reproduced with permission. Lynne Taylor is Researcher…
Local church made a cheesy COVID safety video (and we love it!)
Pastor Albert Tang at Pakuranga Chinese Baptist Church mentioned on social media: "Just sharing the video we produced for information and clarificat…
An individual’s Christian response to a vaccine mandate in the workplace
Vaccination mandates and the workplace: Are Christians in the firing line? Gareth Jones attends Dunedin City Baptist Church and is Emeritus Professor i…
Emerging from a lockdown response to a global pandemic
Rick Pierce, works for the Northern Baptist Association as a Network Pastor, Health & Development. Here he shares some ways local churches can resp…
Amidst the lockdown struggle: cracked open by joining together
John Fawcett’s hymn “Blest Be the Tie that Binds” is an important hymn for Baptists. The third stanza reads: “We share our mutual woes, our mutual bu…