Destiny Church senior pastor Derek Tait reaches out to a member of the Muslim community during the call to prayer and peace vigil outside the Masjid Al Noor Mosque. OPINION: There's a lot of talk these days about the "monoculture". Sure, the vast majority of us stood with Jacinda Ardern after Christchurch, our empathy for the victims and their families sustained by that sense of shared humanity. It's true that we are all immigrants in this country, but it's equally certain we live in a time of heightened sensitivities, where one's gender, one's ethnicity, one's sexuality, one's religion or lack thereof, assumes an importance that threatens to overwhelm that which we have in common. If the Fab Four's moment has now passed, I would say that the concluding episodes of Game of Thrones will attract more punters than Destiny Church, even in a city that bears Christ's name.

Source: Stuff May 03, 2019 22:52 UTC