Do you ever find yourself confused by the mixed messaging our culture, government, media, and even some churches push? Maybe all this noise has left you questioning God, your faith, and how you fit into it all?
I get it.
I’ve wrestled with these questions too and it has developed in me a passion for cutting through the chaos and clutter to get real answers. It can be a scary ride, but it’s what I love. The only thing I love more is helping others find clarity, truth, and the boldness they need to live out their God-given purpose.
I’m a kiwi kid raised on Weet-Bix, rugby, and Peter Jackson films who found Christ at a young age and never let go. Never feeling entirely “at home” in New Zealand I often thought about where I should live and if I’d ever find what was missing. After graduating from college with a degree in Film and Television I decided to spend a “gap” year in the USA before jumping into a master’s program I’d been accepted to in Australia.
During that year, my life’s trajectory completely changed when I met and married my wonderful American husband and found that missing sense of “home” in the USA. Together, we’ve moved back and forth between the USA and New Zealand and had babies in both. We’ve survived tremendous financial hardship and have wrestled with the heartbreak and strain of raising multiple children with special needs.
You can view my longer testimony HERE and my journey into Christian apologetics HERE.
I have a passion for cutting through the chaos, clutter, and deceptions we’re presented in life to get to the truth. Not all truth is comfortable, far from it, but understanding our reality and how we fit in it today is always the first step to figuring out where we want to be and how to get there.
I know what it’s like to wrestle with big questions. Questions about my identity, my value, and my purpose. If you’re human, I’m willing to bet you’ve wrestled with similar questions at some point too. To save you some time, I found the answers to my questions in Christ, but if you’re like me, a simple cookie-cutter Christian answer like that isn’t going to cut it. Good. That means you’re thinking, we’re going to do a lot of that around here and I’m here to help you.
Today I have a unique accent that’s a mysterious mix of Kiwi-isms and American twang that leaves most people wondering where I’m actually from. When I tell Americans, a common follow-up question is, “Why are you here?” as they gesture at the invisible dumpster heap of a country around us.
It never ceases to amaze me how low of an opinion so many Americans have of their own county while simultaneously knowing so little of the rest of the world.
Growing up in a socialist-leaning, ultra-liberal, God-denying, but yes, stunningly beautiful country, I have a unique appreciation of the USA and a desire to defend the foundational values it was built upon. America is truly unlike anywhere else and represents one of the last beacons of liberty in the modern world. Is it perfect? Of course not, but it is not lost.
Since returning to the USA, my passion and drive have been focused on two things (besides my precious family).
How does a Kiwi kid, raised on Weet-Bix, rugby, Peter Jackson films, and gumboot throwing competitions, end up speaking on political, cultural, and religious matters in the USA? The short version starts in 2008 when I graduated from college in New Zealand and moved to the USA for a year under the Au Pair visa program. Unbeknownst to me, that year changed everything.
The most important change of that year was meeting and marrying my incredible husband. Together, we’ve moved back and forth between the USA and New Zealand and had babies in both (I had the babies… he helped). Since returning to the USA, my passion and drive have been focused on two things (besides my precious family): 1. Defending truth through apologetics and critical thinking, and 2. Speaking up to slow America’s decline into the belief systems that have already taken hold elsewhere, namely where I grew up in New Zealand and across Europe.
Roughly ten years after college, I found myself married with young children, living in the USA, and still holding fast to a comfortable faith. As I scrolled through YouTube one day, I came upon a video of an atheist and a Christian debating the existence of God. My first thought was, “How silly, of course God exists,” but before dismissing the video and moving on, I hesitated. If the arguments for the existence for God were as obvious as I thought, why was this man so positively convinced of the opposite? What did he know that I didn’t? As I listened to this man deliver a very well-articulated and clear list of objections, I felt a tiny pinch of fear as I wondered, “How will the Christian respond?”. I watched tentatively, praying that this atheist wouldn’t say something that would unravel everything I had based my life on. As scary as that idea was, I had to ask myself a serious question, “If Christianity was false, wouldn’t I want to know?”.
The atheist raised good objections against the Christian God, but the Christian gave better answers. In that moment I realized that I wanted to be able to do the same and so my journey into the field of Christian Apologetics began.
I believe the Christian worldview provides the best explanation for reality, grounds morality, and justifies the idea of human rights. To quote C. S. Lewis, “Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance, the only thing it cannot be is moderately important.”
Christianity is true and, like all truth things, is worth defending.
Transgender ideology is anti-reality, anti-self, anti-God, and breeds physical, emotional, spiritual, and mental pain and confusion for those genuinely struggling with gender dysphoria and their loved ones.
The unborn are entitled to life which begins at the moment of conception.
Preserving the hetero-nuclear family is the best way to perpetuate and stabilize society.
Asking tough questions is always a good thing. It is intellectual apathy and a lack of open discourse that harms everyone.
