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    Where are they now: Sonya Lewthwaite

    Sonya Lewthwaite and husband Jon Screech plant out the banks of a stream in Waiwhetu, Lower Hutt,...
    Sonya Lewthwaite and husband Jon Screech plant out the banks of a stream in Waiwhetu, Lower Hutt, with their church group. Photo: supplied.
    Sonya Lewthwaite, formerly of Waitaki Girls’ High School, has completed nine years of theological education, mostly from the University of Otago, and is exploring ordination as a priest in the Anglican Church. She is undergoing an official process with the diocese in Wellington called a "discernment period", which will take at least a year.

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    All too often, it is the shortcomings of the young that grab our attention - and with this come expressions of displeasure, denigration, despair - when there is so much about their achievements to