My first job for War Cry was interviewing John Kirwan about his book on parenting and child and teenage mental health. A year and a half later we’...
Stephen Freeman describes his old life as hell, but after a long road he’s now trying to help people escape the same life.
Carla* sold all her furniture and then began stealing to ‘feed her kids’. Only her ‘kids’ were the pokie machines she had developed an addiction...
When I first walked into The Salvation Army I was what you’d call a broken woman
As the controversial TV show Married at First Sight hits our screens, we look at a real life arranged marriage and ask, ‘who has got it right—them...
We’re currently commemorating the centenary of the First World War, the ‘war to end all wars’, but there’s no doubt humanity is still too often...
Part of a series of occasional articles from The Salvation Army’s Moral and Social Issues Council.
I’m in a friendship I find draining, and I really want to put some distance between us, but can I ‘break up’ with a friend?
Major Afolau Toluono provides a listening ear and support for those who pass through the Wellington District Courts.
For 15 years as Principal Youth Court Judge His Honour Judge Andrew Becroft has dealt with the country’s worst teenage criminals. He still sees...
A young woman, armed with just her sewing machine and a van called Cecil, is travelling New Zealand with a mission to teach us how to sew.
While at high school, my English class spent one entire term reading through Shakespeare’s ‘The Merchant of Venice’. Every lesson, we simply...
