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      • every good gift
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    • Living “as if” – some thoughts on faith and failure
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    • Memory and mystery: An Epiphany Reflection
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    • Te Tumu Herenga Waka and the Fishers
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    • let grace adorn our lives
    • Litany for the journey
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    • Amazing grace—how foreign to a skeptic such as me
    • Easter hymn: Quick past the places we used to meet
    • Easter hymn: We walk the way that has no end
    • Faith of metaphor and mystery
    • Faith of metaphor & mystery (wedding version)
    • He Waiata mō Aotearoa (Song for Aotearoa)
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    • st andrew’s carol
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    • Even our prickles and thorns…
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    • An evolving response… Christchurch, Friday 15 March 2019
    • in the wake of racist terror attack
    • “Rainbow Trinity” in Q-Spirit blog
    • New music for contemporary hymn lyrics
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