Babylon is imperial, and all empires contain many nations. Babylon tolerates much, but demands the first loyalty of all people. Babylon sees itself, from before…
Posted: 3 July 2020
Categories: Lectionary
Posted: 2 July 2020
Categories: Theology
There are many controversies in this time: people read too much into the current circumstances and want to change eternal doctrines because of ephemeral situations….
Posted: 1 July 2020
Categories: Lectionary
I began reading Russian Authors as a child. It was somewhat unusual during the Cold War. But I worked through Tolstoy, and some of the…
Posted: 1 July 2020
Categories: Poetry
Kipling is a rich vein of poetry, but he was not the only popular poet of the time. Stevenson was as or more popular as…
Posted: 1 July 2020
Categories: New Zealand
I am only using Statcounter. Last month there were 2907 page views with 1280 unique IP addresses. The most popular posts for last month are…
Posted: 1 July 2020
Categories: Lectionary
We are now half way through the year of the COVID, and the second wave of the virus seems to be nicely starting up. A…
Posted: 30 June 2020
Categories: Poetry
Robert Graves was a pagan. He did not like Christ, nor the philosophers Athens honoured in their death: nor the mos moriaram of the Romans….
Posted: 30 June 2020
Categories: Lectionary
There is a lot of stuff happening at present. The progressive project has taken the war from the conquered heights of twitter and Facebook (now…
Posted: 29 June 2020
Categories: New Zealand
The main thing that has happened this week is that all the WordPress plugins have been removed from the site. I’m now using Cleantalk for…
Posted: 29 June 2020
Categories: Black Swan, COVID 19, Lectionary
You have to consider the current woke crowd as part of the progressive government: if they are not the children of the elite, they are…