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"Community is first of all a quality of the heart. It grows from the spiritual knowledge that we are alive not for ourselves but for one another"
- Henry Nouwen

From the Chairman’s desk, December 2020

If you light a lamp for someone else it will also brightenyour own path. Buddha Kia ora koutou, As we approach the end of a challenging year it is encouraging to reflect on oursubstantial achievements during a year impacted by…

Former Dunedin teacher’s ‘enormous breach of trust’

A former school teacher has been sentenced over a historic indecent assault. Former Otago Boys’ High School maths teacher David Russell Bond, 69, appeared for sentencing before Judge Michael Turner in the Dunedin District Court on Thursday on a charge…

Abused as a boy, man calls for independent investigation

A man who suffered horrific sexual abuse at two Dunedin schools says an independent body should be established to investigate church abuse cases. The man, named only as Marc, presented his evidence to the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse…