Author Archives: Christopher Golding

I’m just about to leave Australian soil after a seven night trip here, my first time back after relocating overseas with family in January 2015. There is something funny about being home, but being away from home, of knowing a country is so much a part of your life, but only one part, of beingContinue reading “Australian reflections”

It’s coming up on 11 months since Julia, Phoebe, James and I moved from Australia to beautiful Honolulu, Hawai’i. Much learning, and translating! has gone on during this relatively short time. I’m happy to report that I can now write the date in the U.S. format (MMDDYYYY) without having to translate in my head first.Continue reading “Small steps”

It hit me in the middle of the night. The crushing emptiness which comes from experiencing such human tragedy.  I’d been given a small, but not insignificant insight into what survivors and their families felt. Anger, confusion, fear. But now comes hope and love. Just as New York City underwent a spiritual and social transformationContinue reading “9/11 pilgrimage sites # 2”

People walked, and wept, stopped and stared. This was September 11, 2001 lived and re-lived by thousands from around the world. Through the displays of the Tribute Center and Museum, and through the solemn waterfall of the Memorial pools, today humanity viewed the best of itself, and the worst of itself. And the agony, yes,Continue reading “Reflection on 9/11 sites”

This blog post is written in response to: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/14/after-15-years-ive-given-up-driving-cabs-the-industry-has-no-shame I absolutely loved my two and a half years as a full-time cabbie in Brisbane, Australia (2004-2006) I put that down to: a) time of life – I started when I was 20 – I was young, and staying up through the night driving people around wasContinue reading “Cabbie or Uber Driver? – the choice would be easy”

This kind of thing really upsets me. You see it all the time, but it still makes me gag (from the March 2015 edition of Australia’s “Delicious” magazine). How can you reconcile “a decade of joy” with the living conditions of the so called “humble pig”? (Picture from ASPCA) Pigs: abused, despised, unloved. Pork –Continue reading “Pork – a decade of despair”

“Mind the gap” will be familiar to those of you who live in urban centers which have public rail transit systems. Hawaii’s first ever rail system is currently being built, due for completion in 2019 (see: http://www.honolulutransit.org) Growing up in Brisbane, Australia, I remember the white paint marked on the edges of the platform toContinue reading “The gap”

Tomorrow it will be seven weeks since I relocated to Hawai’i with my wife, Julia and our children, Phoebe and James. Already I’m noticing some “strange things are happening” (as Randy Newman once put it!) — There are zeeeeebras there as we climb the stairs of the school to which Phoebe attends with her friends, who are aContinue reading “Strange things are happening”

“The world doesn’t revolve around you.” When my seemingly endless energy as a young boy had become just a wee too much, my father would often use this phrase. I remember being lost in my own world, lost in a world of my own energy in a time of (almost frantic) discovery. Now as a father,Continue reading ““The world doesn’t revolve around you.””

I’m excited to announce that I’ve accepted a call to be the next Associate Rector of the Episcopal Parish of St. Clement, Hawai’i. The Parish, located in Honolulu on the island of O’ahu, is a diverse and progressive community of faith comprising St. Clement’s Church and St. Clement’s School. St. Clement’s was founded in 1898Continue reading “New ministry position”