The Church’s New Dreadlocked Bishop

So yesterday was a huge day for all of us. Justin Duckworth from the Ngatiawa contemporary monastery where we live got installed as the Anglican Bishop of Wellington. Busy day.  We had a big breakfast at St Cuthberts for the Urban Vision crowd. Then we all turned up at the Wellington Cathedral to see barefooted…

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NO we are NOT living in a secluded commune!

How embarrassing! After all the news coverage we got last week, my friends and family now think I live in a COMMUNE! Yes, a flipping’ “commune”! When I was a kid in school at Orewa, one of our teachers was a bushy-bearded hippie who lived in a Puhoi commune. We thought that was weird. It…

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