John Bluck writes
-
How Does Your Garden Grow: 1
28 Dec 2016How to fall in love with it. After years of avoiding gardening, John Bluck has changed. He's in love with it all, and ever more smitten. Read more Audio
-
How Does Your Garden Grow: 2
29 Dec 2016Of the People: The garden remains a last bastion under your control. Read more Audio
-
How Does Your Garden Grow: 3
30 Dec 2016Invasion alert: The battle between gardener and nature in all her forms; plant, animal and insect seems endless. Read more Audio
-
How Does Your Garden Grow: 4
2 Jan 2017A life for a life: A little more sympathy for the plant kingdom would be good for the Kiwi psyche Read more Audio
-
How Does Your Garden Grow: 5
3 Jan 2017Water, water, but not everywhere: No wonder water has become the political powder keg of the 21st century. Read more Audio
-
How Does Your Garden Grow: 6
4 Jan 2017Black gold There are gardeners who delight in growing things and there are composters who delight in making good compost. Read more Audio
Photo: RNZ / Paul Bushnell
John Bluck
John Bluck was born in Hawkes Bay, educated at Napier Boys’ High School, the University of Canterbury and the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge Massachusetts. He's had interwoven careers in journalism and ministry for the Anglican Church, spending time as a reporter in Boston, USA.
A former journalism tutor and chaplain at the Wellington Polytechnic, he has edited a number of publications including the World Council of Churches’ "One World" magazine in Geneva.
His ecclesiastical career started in Gisborne and took him to posts as varied as Director of Communications at the World Council of Churches, Professor of Pastoral Theology and Communication at Dunedin's Knox Theological Seminary, and Dean of Christchurch Cathedral. He was the 14th Anglican Bishop of Waiapu.
After resigning his See in 2008, he left moved to a rural setting near Warkworth from which he has continued to write and publish.