Into the wild

December 2014

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December 2014

Wilderness can be sensed in the many braids of the Waimakariri River.
Wilderness is an idea that has gone through many different versions. To begin with, wilderness was a heathen place, out on the other side. It was godless and full of fear and unspeakable happenings. It was to the wilderness that Jesus was abandoned, a wasteland in which people were lost. But in Europe, around the […]

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