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Eleesa Jensen

Press Services International

Eleesa Jensen is currently studying Psychology and Education at the University of Auckland. She loves to paint, play guitar, and write as a form of worship and to process her thoughts. 

  • Sin: should we feel threatened?

    It’s a wet night and I’m walking with my friend, carefully trying not to slip on the concrete. I don’t remember how the conversation got here or how it started, only that it’s raining and when it rains we get heavy. So now we’re discussing the prison system. He says,

  • Suffering well 

    I’m a late bloomer. My friends were getting part time jobs by the time I woke up to our taboo on suffering.

  • Cheap curtain rods and determination: Christ-like or just Christian-like?

    This morning, with the promise of discounted food, I download a couple of megacorporate apps. This is disastrous for about sixty minutes.

  • Nice doesn’t mean good: Challenge in the church

    We’re too comfortable. That’s why we stagnate.

  • On collarbones, contemplation, and community

    We’re at a youth leader’s retreat camp. I am feeling lonely. I am feeling guilty for feeling lonely.

  • The little we know

    Picture this: A man is sitting inside a refrigerator, and he is very cold. For now, there is enough food and drinks to sate him, but he knows he will run out and then he is not sure what to do. You open the door a little bit and there’s an exchange like,

  • Relationship Killing 101

    Life is better without resentment, so nobody seeks it out. It just builds up, like mould. Suddenly you’ve got these big stains in your friendships, or in your family, and they don’t seem to come out.

  • Life isn’t fair (yet)

    “What is it that the child has to teach?