For over 50 years, Richard Randerson CNZM has exercised a ministry at the intersection between the Church and the wider community. In New Zealand, Australia, UK and USA, he has served as industrial chaplain, inner-city priest, social justice officer, royal commissioner, bishop and cathedral dean. Now resident in Wellington, NZ, Bishop Richard continues to serve as guest speaker, preacher, mentor and supervisor.
We live in a time when faith for many is a foreign territory, or a distant memory. Yet in a fast-changing global community, the need for a sense of purpose, and a basis in values to guide our choices and actions, has never been more urgent.
Tutu Te Puehu
The dust is rising
The kowhaiwhai pattern on this website is a fern which has a clear forward direction, with side paths enhancing a strong central vision. It conveys an image of an orator on a marae, raising the dust as he walks up and down, and in the process stirring visionary ideas in the minds of listeners. The fern may also be used to fan embers of a dying fire and thus produce new fire.
The pattern was designed by the late Martin Winiata who died tragically in a road accident near Wellington in the 1980s. I am indebted to his brothers, the late Bishop Hapai Winiata and Professor Whatarangi Winiata, for permission to use it here.