My next book Bring in the New Day: Discovering the Hope that is God (you can see the draft cover to the right) is now available for pre-order. It will be published in December 2008. Pre-ordered copies sell for $25.00 - let me know if you’d like to order a copy at this special price. Believe me when it goes into the shops (it is being sold by University Bookshop, Dunedin) it will be more than $25.00.
Hear me being interviewed by Marcus Lush on his morning radio show on RadioLive, about Asian students in New Zealand here
Every day I read around the world. To follow the US Presidential Elections, and US perspectives on global affairs generally, I variously read the International Herald Tribune, which is the international version of the New York Times, which I also read regularly. I also read the political blogs, Mark Halperin’s The Page (Time), The Caucus (New York Times) and politico.com. I follow the think-tanks Brookings, the East-West Centre and the blog Huffington Post. Staying in North America, I get daily intelligence and security briefings about Asia as recorded in the region’s media from Canada’s Maritime Forces Pacific Headquarters and the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada . From the UK, I read both the Independent and The Guardian. To balance out this heavy reading, I enjoy a good laugh with Jeremy Clarkson, Garrison Keillor, and Dave Barry.
Closer to home, I read the New Zealand Herald, and stuff, as well as the Sydney Morning Herald, the Melbourne Age, and the blog of the think-tank the Lowy Institute for International Policy, the Interpreter.
Read about me and the work I do in the Official Statistics Newsletter The Source here (on page 10)
Watch Andrew being interviewed on the Agenda current affairs programme this Sunday between 10-11am on TVNZ One. It will also be available online after the broadcast.
Listen to my interview with Paul Holmes on Newstalk ZB from Tuesday 8 July here (from 26:10-28:41) about research on New Zealand’s Asian populations.
Read a New Zealand Herald article that I am quoted in about migrants’ experiences in New Zealand here
Walking the Emmaus Journey received a Highly Commended Award in the Binding & Finishing section of the New Zealand Print national annual Pride in Print Awards. You can see its entry on the first page of this PDF file.
Some years ago I heard the English preacher Charles Price preach at the Waikanae Easter Convention at El Rancho on Wellington’s Kapiti Coast. I heard him again a few years later. I found him to be an extraordinary bible teacher, an excellent communicator, and someone worth listening to.
In 2001, Price moved from England to Canada where he is now pastor of Living Truth Ministries. I was excited to find that his sermons are available to download to read, listen and watch (at the top of the page) at the Living Truth Ministries page. I’m listening through his sermon series on Abraham: fantastic, challenging, well worth listening to. The price is right.
A new review of Walking the Emmaus Journey appears in this month’s (May’s) Daystar Magazine. It is reproduced below:
In Walking the Emmaus Journey, we’re invited to join with the author as he reflects on his life journey. Based on the familiar story from Luke 24, Andrew Butcher has written 26 short reflections on the three different parts of this story: the beginning of the journey; meeting Jesus, “the very best of travelling companions”; being equipped to journey by having “a fresh encounter with Jesus” and; inviting others to join us.
Many of the reflections are based on Butcher’s own life experiences over a two year period –a journey that involved travel through hard and life threatening places as well as stimulating and challenging times. There is something here for everybody.
Butcher writes in a readable writing style with no padding, which probably reflects the influence of his previous careers as an academic and public servant. Currently, he is a member of Karori Baptist Church, works for a high level apolitical organisation in New Zealand and is on the National Board of TSCF (Tertiary Students’ Christian Fellowship).
While challenging and provocative at times (e.g. prayer is a seditious act, p 45) it is also dashed with humour (e.g. never have your God stuffed). I particularly enjoyed Butcher’s New Zealand “voice.” His website is www.andrewbutcher.org
–Reviewed by Janette Busch
