About

Welcome to my blog – my name is Maria Kirkland and I’m from Wellington, New Zealand. I spent a year living in Vancouver, British Colombia and studying at Regent College.

I started this blog then and named it ‘Breather’ – which reflected a bit of what that year was for me, a sabbatical from life in New Zealand and a period of renewal for whatever the next season would bring.

Now I’m in that next season of life and back in Aotearoa and thought I would continue the semi-regular blogging with reflections on theology, faith and life.

My musings in this blog reflect my experiences of being part of an intentional Christian community called the Greenhaus in Newtown Wellington for 8 years (check out the old blog here: http://greenhausnz.blogspot.co.nz) and the journey over the years in wrestling with what it means to follow Jesus in the world. Now some of us from the Greenhaus have moved to start a new community in Taita, Lower Hutt and this is the season I now find myself in.