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Common GroundDecember 2025 Edtn
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.
For the followers of the risen Jesus, the importance of morning actually goes well beyond the need feel good about the day.
I’m currently living in Hillsborough, Tāmaki Makaurau. I’m very fond of the area, having spent most of my young-adult life here. I share a flat with three friends, enjoying shared dinners, an abundant feijoa tree, and the occasional heated game of Bananagrams.
Suzanne Aubert, later known as Mother Mary Joseph Aubert, was a nun, nurse, herbalist, teacher and social worker, who founded the first new Catholic order in Aotearoa, New Zealand, the Sisters of Compassion.
We are looking for someone to join the Venn Team in a part-time role (0.5-0.8FTE) as our Marketing and Communications Coordinator.
This month we’re commending the practice of the imaginative reading of Scripture. As we’ve been exploring at recent SPACE evenings, God has provided immersion in Scripture as a key way to teach, grow, correct, and equip us for living in the way of Christ. As we feed on Scripture—as we take it to heart—it fills our imagination, shapes our wills, and directs our hands and feet into the way of wisdom