coming to a city near you
WELLINGTON
9:00 am – 4:00 pm | 28 November 2020
Doors open 8:30 am
The Street Church | 9 Hania Street, Mt. Victoria, Wellington
Early Bird Standard Tickets $39 Save $10
Early Bird Concession Tickets $34 Save $10
Early Bird Ticket Prices Expire 9 November 2020
There is now no cap on the number of tickets we can offer, so grab a friend or a group and join us for this timely event!
Topics
overcome tough questions about faith and the changing culture
Please note: Unfortunately due to a family illness, Eric George, is no longer able to speak for us.
Our new speaker line-up and topics are:
Brendan Malone – Free Speech, Hate Speech, & the Suppression of Truth: Why we need to protect our right to hear both sides.
Dr Shawn Means – The Bible and Social Justice Today: A Critical View – Part 1 The Rising Tide of Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity
Ronji Tanielu – Brown People Need Jesus too!: Engaging Polynesian people with the Gospel of Christ
Dr Shawn Means – The Bible and Social Justice Today: A Critical View – Part 2 Fighting Oppression or Just Another Distraction from Jesus?
Brendan Malone – The Courage to be Counter-cultural: Why NZ desperately needs Christians who are living a culture of goodness, truth and beauty
Q & A – Brendan, Ronji, & Shawn
Presenters
powerful communicators from around New Zealand
Ronji Tanielu
Ronji and his beautiful wife Rabena returned to NZ in 2017 after serving as tentmaker missionaries in over 33 countries, working with persecuted Christians, business as mission projects, orphanages, Bible teaching & human trafficking projects. Ronji currently works as a Lawyer and Principal Policy Analyst - working in advocacy and policy around justice reform, addictions services, welfare reform, and housing, based in South Auckland. Ronji’s job is to be as positively disruptive and troublesome as possible to politicians, policy officials and other key decision makers. In NZ, Ronji and Rabena attend a house church in South Auckland called the Waterhole. They also serve in NZ with Tertiary Students Christian Fellowship, International Needs Network, Voice of the Martyrs and Gideons. Jude 25.
Brendan Malone
Brendan Malone is the Director of LifeNET NZ. He has been working full-time in pro-life, marriage, and family ministry for the last 14 years where he speaks at churches, universities, high schools, and conferences on bioethics and sexuality issues throughout New Zealand and Australia. During that time he has delivered over 500 presentations, and spoken to more than 30,000 people. He is one of the founders of ACTIV8 Pro-Life Training Week – an annual philosophy, apologetics, and media/social-media training event for young adults which has been running for 10 years in New Zealand and over 7 years in Australia. He is married to Katie and they have five children. Brendan also has a background in communications and media training, and he regularly connects with people in the online space via his YouTube channel which has approximately 20,000 subscribers.
Shawn Means
Shawn is a mathematician who uses maths to help biologists figure out biological problems — ranging from signals for muscles to contract, to livers surviving viruses and neurons networking together. He loves to teach on diverse issues from a Christian perspective such as politics in science and how mathematics itself reflects a great mathematical creator. Shawn balances all this cerebral stuff with drumming in worship teams and his band, and sharing his own variety of spicy New Mexican dishes with just about anyone willing to taste.
Info
There are many cultural issues Christians find difficult to navigate and give thoughtful, compassionate, and biblical answers to. The Faith and Culture Forum is a one-day event with some of New Zealand’s best speakers on current cultural issues. Our speakers will equip you with answers to some of the toughest questions facing Christians in New Zealand today, leaving you with greater confidence to enter into the hard conversations of our times from a Christian perspective.
Testimonials
here’s what people have had to say about previous Thinking Matters events
It was absolutely stupendous – what an amazing line-up of supremely gifted speakers! If Christianity can produce this level of excellence it is even more proof that God enables us to live up to our true potential!
The speakers were so gracious and the clarity that they delivered their message with was outstanding.
So brilliant once again! I cannot get over how relevant and needed these conversations are. These issues are so complicated and I really appreciate hearing about them from people who have poured time and research in them.
Forum
There are many cultural issues Christians find difficult to navigate and give thoughtful, compassionate, and biblical answers to.
Get in touch
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