If you are a person of
faith and believe that your faith is an integral part of your life as a citizen
of New Zealand, then you will want to think carefully and prayerfully about the
way you vote.
This blog is a resource for you to think
through Labour Party Policy from a faith perspective.
As this page and the conversations around it grows
you will hear from many members of the Christian
Community and from people of other faith movements who have decided that the
policies of the NZ Labour Party line up with their own values and vision for a
fair and just society.
In preparing this blog I acknowledge that within any
faith tradition there are a variety of perspectives. I do not set out to convince those who in good
faith support right-leaning policy to change their ways. However I do hope that those who feel an
inner conviction that the ways of their faith whether that be in Jesus of
Nazareth, the God of the Hebrew Bible, the Quran, or the teaching of any other
religious group; will be able to find solidarity with others who share similar
convictions.
I myself am proud to be a Christian, a minister of
NEV Baptist Church in Dunedin and an activist in the Labour Party. For me faith and politics belong together and
it is the life and example of Jesus that motivate me to “bring good news to the
poor”
Steve O'Connor
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