Read Article Common Ground June 2025 Edtn 3 min read Editorial: Salt and Light Nathan McLellan Venn exists to help people seek the good of their homes, workplaces, churches, and communities. That requires that we recognise and embrace... Faith & Work Scripture & Theology
Read Article Common Ground June 2025 Edtn 24 min read “I Am With You Always”: How We are Salt and Light John Dennison In another life, I briefly taught creative writing. We didn’t get off to a promising start: they were undergraduate Communications students, with a large sense of self and little deep experience of life. Faith & Work Lead Articles Scripture & Theology
Read Article Common Ground June 2025 Edtn 10 min read Salt and the family Matthew Scott The sun has risen over the Great Etosha Pan, in the north of Namibia, and I stand at the edge, or maybe a few steps in. I am in the presence of death. There is no sound, for there is no life: there is only a view, endless, shadowless, of salt. Scripture & Theology
Read Article Common Ground June 2025 Edtn 23 min read Field Notes: Andrew Das John Dennison Andrew Das is a medical researcher working in the field of cancer biology. He lives with his wife Rachel and their two sons in Melbourne. Here he shares something of his story. Interviews
Read Article Common Ground June 2025 Edtn 20 min read Saint Augustine’s Music: Chloe Williams and Andy Campbell John Dennison Chloe Williams and Andy Campbell are members of Saint Augustine’s Music, a collective of songwriters, musicians, theologians, and creatives based in Auckland. Here they talk about collaborative process, about God’s work in and through their music, and about their latest EP Death Is Not The End. Arts Interviews Music
Read Article Common Ground June 2025 Edtn 13 min read We Hold His Beautiful Light: Three Reflections Venn Foundation We asked four former Venn Fellows to reflect in writing on their lives, their present contexts, and how their understanding of following Jesus in the world has deepened over recent years. Interviews