Luke: One of the ways that God humbles planners and schemers like me is to throw a spanner in the works. I grew up as a Christian in a country town in New Zealand, but when I moved to Christchurch to study Engineering I gave up on my faith. It wasn’t until my third year that I started investigating Christianity again and came across a Moore graduate who was planting...

My introduction to Moore College was unexpectedly early. Fourteen years before I set foot on campus as a first-year student, I was already studying core course content. The Biblical Studies unit at my school had the somewhat dubious idea of distilling Moore College’s bachelor degree into a high school curriculum. In a school where most students weren’t Christians, Biblical Studies was barely tolerated. But there was always that one freak...

Events in my life and ministry seem to have drawn me back recurrently to Moore College. At the same time, ministries in cross-cultural and diverse settings have called me out into the public space. I spend my ministry working at the interface between church and society, clergy and laity, theology and practice – sometimes as the host and sometimes as the guest. My story so far: I came to college...