by tashmcgill | Sep 25, 2014 | Community, Culture & Ideas
Great beauty or purpose without design is a rare and miraculous thing. The more beauty, ease and purpose, the more likely you are to find great design. That is why architecture is such an important part of communities and hospitality. It starts with our homes and...
by tashmcgill | Sep 24, 2013 | Church, Community, Culture & Ideas, Spirituality
“I want to see us become a family, the body of Christ become a home for the world.” I’ve had a dream for my life as long as I can remember. Not a daydream or a wishful thinking kind of dream, but an actual dream that comes in the night, whether the...
by tashmcgill | Mar 2, 2011 | Culture & Ideas, New Zealand
The trouble with most first-time experiences, is the necessity of hindsight and reflection to see all the ways you could have done things differently, what you have learned and how you can be a better person as a result. Like I said in Christchurch: We Are Blessed;...
by tashmcgill | Feb 28, 2011 | Culture & Ideas, New Zealand
Some will possibly find this thought offensive.. and that is not my intention. Instead, I want to dialogue the context of international aid and disaster response. I have sat quietly on some of these thoughts since the quake.. they have whispered in the back of my...
by tashmcgill | Feb 23, 2011 | Culture & Ideas, New Zealand
At 12.51pm yesterday (Tuesday 22nd February) a magnitude 6.3 quake struck at a depth of 5km just outside of Christchurch in the South Island of New Zealand. Although of a lower magnitude than the September 4 quake, the shallow depth of yesterday’s tremor has left a...