New Zealand Churches Respond to the Covid-19 Protection Framework: Loving our neighbours?

This book examines the ways in which New Zealand’s churches interpreted Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s “Covid-19 Protection Framework,” which saw unvaccinated New Zealanders excluded from access to many aspects of civil life, including church attendance.

The book considers the socio-political factors that contributed to a high degree of compliance with measures that Ardern herself acknowledged created “two classes of people” in a country that prides itself on being egalitarian and kind. It ...