Theology and Mental Health
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'Theology for Lunch' Series
Space to ask hard questions and articulate good practical pastoral theology. Free 1-hour online conversations, 12.00-1.00pm Register here |
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Julia Grace
Julia reflects on the challenges of mid-life when the 'be good' fragility of rule-based faith can collide with tough challenges, and calls us to a robust faith of hope and courage. She chooses four Bible scriptures. Julia Grace is our top public speaker and musician addressing a wide audience, and well known across the church in NZ. Author of ‘Be Kind to Your Mind’ mental wellbeing resource book. Julia gets to have a lot of conversations with a lot of people; what is she learning about what good theology sounds like? |
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Rev. Kath Bier:
Kath Bier is Vicar of St Mary’s Anglican Parish, Silverstream, Upper Hutt. Kath brings to ministry a successful career in radio, a keen mind and a wholehearted willingness to follow Jesus. God has been speaking to Kath recently about shame, and how to help people move into the victory that Christ has won for us. |
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Rev. Dr. Wayne Te Kaawa: Thursday 15 October, 12pm
Wayne Te Kaawa is Kaiwhakaako Matua Senior Lecturer in indigenous theology at Hoani Tapu St John's College in Auckland. He stands in a mighty whakapapa and has added multiple layers of leadership in the areas of ministry (including Moderator of Te Aka Puahou Presbyterian Māori Synod, lecturer at Otago Uni, research & books. His pastoral heart has taken him deep into the areas of mental health, trauma, death & grief.
Wayne Te Kaawa is Kaiwhakaako Matua Senior Lecturer in indigenous theology at Hoani Tapu St John's College in Auckland. He stands in a mighty whakapapa and has added multiple layers of leadership in the areas of ministry (including Moderator of Te Aka Puahou Presbyterian Māori Synod, lecturer at Otago Uni, research & books. His pastoral heart has taken him deep into the areas of mental health, trauma, death & grief.
Ngāwaka Salā Setiu: Thursday 19 November, 12pm
Ngāwaka Salā Setiu is a Māori and Samoan educator, facilitator and founder of CareCNC (Care Cultural enCounters), based in Waimahana Bay in the Far North of Aotearoa New Zealand. For more than twenty-five years, he has worked alongside whānau, schools, churches, communities and organisations, exploring the relationships between identity, whakapapa, whenua, wairua, belonging and wellbeing. His work brings together mātauranga Māori, te reo Māori, Christian faith, education and lived experience to create spaces of healing, reflection and connection.
What if not knowing is not something we need to fix, but a place where humility, relationship and trust can grow? Drawing from Christian faith, te ao Māori and lived experience, Ngāwaka will explore how we might accompany people through suffering and mental distress without needing to explain everything, solve everything, or always be right—yet still offer the gifts of our presence, mauri and manaakitanga.
Ngāwaka Salā Setiu is a Māori and Samoan educator, facilitator and founder of CareCNC (Care Cultural enCounters), based in Waimahana Bay in the Far North of Aotearoa New Zealand. For more than twenty-five years, he has worked alongside whānau, schools, churches, communities and organisations, exploring the relationships between identity, whakapapa, whenua, wairua, belonging and wellbeing. His work brings together mātauranga Māori, te reo Māori, Christian faith, education and lived experience to create spaces of healing, reflection and connection.
What if not knowing is not something we need to fix, but a place where humility, relationship and trust can grow? Drawing from Christian faith, te ao Māori and lived experience, Ngāwaka will explore how we might accompany people through suffering and mental distress without needing to explain everything, solve everything, or always be right—yet still offer the gifts of our presence, mauri and manaakitanga.