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Justice issues |

Lambeth Woes: Bigger barns, Higher Walls

 Helen Jacobi challenges the Lambeth Bishops to include all 

Here you will find a variety of material. St Matthew’s has always been a church engaged in a wide range of social justice issues: from poverty to peace, from tino rangatiratanga to apartheid in South Africa, from LGBT equality to climate justice. St Matthew’s folks are also engaged in their local communities and in the central city of Auckland. We are located between the Auckland City Mission and the SkyCity Tower and the future Convention Centre. We serve and engage with the poor and the rich alike. Material here is tagged by issue so you can find each group of videos easily.

Media interviews

Vicar of St Matthew's Rev Helen Jacobi is often interviewed in the media - here a a few links 

Justice issues |

Lambeth Woes: Bigger barns, Higher Walls

 Helen Jacobi challenges the Lambeth Bishops to include all 

Topic: LGBT
City Mission |

City Mission work

 Whaea Rose Harrop talks about the work of the City Mission with a Maori lens 

Topic: Tikanga Māori, Social services sunday
Stories from our past |

Matariki

 David Williams preaches for our first Matariki Sunday and explores the meaning of the day 

Topic: Tikanga Māori
What do we mean by? |

Te Pouhere Sunday

 Wilf Holt explores the implications of Te Pouhere Sunday (the day we celebrate our three tikanga church) 

Topic: Tikanga Māori
What do we mean by? |

Pentecost

 Cate Thorn looks for the coming of the Holy Spirit in our city 

Topic: Pentecost

Climate Crisis Statement

At the end of 2021 a group of St Matthew's parishioners wrote this statement to outline our thinking on the climate crisis and to invite us to take action.

What is religious freedom

Helen Jacobi presented to the Justice Select Committee on the Conversion Practices Bill in September 2021.

City Mission |

Good News

 Helen Jacobi describes the good news of the blessing of the new City Mission building, Homeground 

Topic: Christmas
City Mission |

Auckland City Mission and St Matthew's

City Missioner Helen Robinson speaks about the history of the relationship between the City Mission and St Matthew's which goes back 100 years. 

Topic: Social services sunday
City Mission |

Farewell Sermon

 City Missioner Chris Farrelly preaches his farewell sermon before his retirement. Chris reflects on the strong relationship between the City Mission and St Matthew's over the last 100 years and the future partnership we share. 

Topic: Christian practices
City Mission |

Social Services Sunday

 Professor Peter Lineham tells some stories from our past and that of the City Mission 

Topic: Social services sunday
City Mission |

Just then loving

 A sermon for the Centenary of the Auckland City Mission by Bishop Jim White. This was to be Bishop Jim’s last sermon before his sad death in September 2020 

Climate Justice |

Acting on Climate Change

 Courtney Simpson, Sustainability Manager, Sky City, Auckland speaks in the 2019 Season of Creation, outlining the ways business is addressing climate change 

Topic: Season of Creation
Climate Justice |

Care of Creation confession

 Rod Oram, journalist and activist, speaks in the 2019 Season of Creation, outlining a liturgical confession and prayer of praise for creation 

Topic: Season of Creation
Climate Justice |

Creation Care in the Potter’s World

 Dr Nicola Hoggard Creegan, an Auckland theologian, speaks in the 2019 Season of Creation about how we are motivated by our scriptural stories to care for creation. 

Topic: Season of Creation
Climate Justice |

From despondency to action and hope

 Dr Richard Milne, parishioner, speaks in the 2019 Season of creation and explores how we can not be frozen by despondency but take action in a hopeful way 

Topic: Season of Creation
Climate Justice |

Who are we humans in the face of climate change?

 Susan Adams reflects on the kind of approach to faith that will help us tackle climate change 

City Mission |

A day in the life of the Auckland City Mission

 Linda Murphy, social worker, shares her work at the City Mission 

Topic: Social services sunday
Climate Justice |

Care of creation

Susan Adams speaks in the 2018 Season of Creation about how we need to think of God as creat-ing rather than creat-or to help us tackle climate change.
This is the second sermon in Susan Adams "Care of creation" story.
Part one can be found here 

Topic: Season of Creation
Climate Justice |

Care of the earth: does our theology help us?

 Susan Adams speaks in the 2018 Season of Creation about how our theology of creation needs to be refreshed if we are to save our planet.
This is the first sermon in Susan Adams "Care of creation" story.
Part two can be found here

Topic: Season of Creation
Justice issues |

Wages are for Living

 Susan Adams speaks about the importance of the Living Wage Movement 

Topic: Living wage, Christian practices
Climate Justice |

Unlearning for creation’s sake

 Cate Thorn speaks in the 2017 Season of Creation about how we need to rethink and understand anew our relationship to creation 

Topic: Season of Creation
City Mission |

Faithfulness

Guest speaker Helen Robinson speaks on Faithfulness

What do we mean by? |

Te Pouhere

 Bishop John Bluck reflects on the broken promises and the hope of the church’s tikanga partnerships 

Topic: Tikanga Māori
Climate Justice |

Flowing from Lent towards Easter

 Dr Robin Kearns, Auckland University, spoke in a Lenten series on Water about our approach and attitudes to water in our everyday lives 

Topic: Lent, Water
Climate Justice |

Wai puna - everflowing water

Archbishop Winston Halapua, archbishop of Polynesia spoke in a Lenten series on Water. He was on his way to participate in New York and London in an Anglican Communion series on Water. 

Topic: Lent, Water
Climate Justice |

Water Use in Auckland and beyond

Raymond Chang, an environmental scientist with BECA, spoke in a Lenten series on Water about the way we use water in Auckland 

Topic: Lent, Water
Climate Justice |

Climate Change - can we make a difference?

 Dr Jenny Salmond, Associate Professor, Environment, University of Auckland, spoke in a Lenten series on Water about what we can do to make a difference

Topic: Lent, Water
Stories from our past |

Remembering Mandela

 David Williams remembers the visit of Nelson Mandela to St Matthew’s in 1995 

Topic: Saints
What do we mean by? |

Challenging our faith

 Hirini Kaa explores issues of faith 

Topic: Progressive Christianity, Tikanga Māori
Auckland City |

Faith in the city

Splice Chaplain John McDonald explores what it means to have faith in the city 

Topic: St Matthew's Day
City Mission |

Caring for our neighbour

 City Missioner Chris Farrelly speaks about faith and action and engaging with our neighbours 

Topic: Christian practices, Faith, Social services sunday
St Matthew-in-the-City |

A spirited place

 Helen Jacobi reflects on the then new mission statement for St Matthew’s 

Topic: Mission statement
Lent and Easter 2015 |

Jesus and the politics of power

 This sermon was one in a series from Lent 2015 on how we might understand Jesus through the Lenten readings (John 2:13-22) 

Topic: Lent, Jesus, Progressive Christianity
Lent and Easter 2015 |

Being a prophet

 George Armstrong reflects on the nature of Jesus as prophet through the lens of his own work encouraging to the church to respond to its prophetic call in Aotearoa in recent decades. 

Topic: Jesus, Progressive Christianity