Nathan contributes in the following Venn contexts:
Rev. Dr. Nathan McLellan is Venn Foundation’s CEO and a Senior Teaching Fellow. Nathan grew up in a family of four boys, where backyard cricket, soccer, rugby—and the occasional broken window—were on the after-school schedule. After studying economics and finance, he worked as an economist at the New Zealand Treasury and as a private consultant, before going overseas for theological study (including a Ph.D., in Christian ethics at Southern Methodist University). While overseas Nathan also worked at the Marketplace Institute (Regent College, Vancouver) as Head of Research, during which time he started and led a residential internship programme and contributed to the development of other programmes and activities, including the ReFrame Course.
Nathan has an interest in leadership, community formation, and the relationship between political and economic life and the Christian faith. He is passionate about helping others develop a sound and deep understanding of the Christian faith and the way it relates to all aspects of life. He serves on several not-for-profit and commercial advisory boards and is also an ordained Anglican minister. He is a recipient of the Walter Wright Jr. Leadership Award. Nathan is married to Bronwyn and is the father of two energetic sons, Jonathan and Caleb.
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Election season is upon us, and once again we’re faced with the issue of how to vote. It is a vexed issue for individual Christians and for the Christian community in Aotearoa, New Zealand. Many of us feel the tension and dissonance of voting when no single party clearly aligns with all our beliefs, values, and policy judgements.
For several years, I have taught The Creed unit on Venn’s Residential Fellowship. As one of our readings for this unit, I always assign Athanasius’s On the Incarnation.
The life and long reign of the late Queen Elizabeth II unfolded within a world that experienced both tremendous upheaval and positive change, a world that was increasingly connected and yet, at the same time fragmented.
“How are you?” “Weary.” It’s an all too common response when I have asked people this question during the last month or so.
Growing up, when I had lost something, I would often ask my mum, “Have you seen my…?”
I answer that it was fitting for Christ to be buried… because by Christ’s rising from the grave, to them who are in the grave, hope is given of rising again through Him.
I've been feeling disquiet; and it's been growing. Disquiet as we approach the forthcoming General Election. In a world ravaged and disrupted by COVID-19, in the midst of calls for redress and change in the presence of prolonged and systemic injustice, and in facing economic and social dislocation and uncertainty.
Since Alert Level 4 began, I’ve been drawn to Ecclesiastes 3:1-8: “There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens:a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot.
I’m surprised I haven’t seen any social media posts this week with the Serenity Prayer
In the midst of difficult times, Jesus counsels his disciples: “Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me.”