Down under, in the antipodes, we have had a few things in common. I think all these things are breaking, and I will get to…
Posted: 14 August 2020
Categories: Australia, Black Swan, COVID 19, New Zealand
Posted: 14 August 2020
Categories: COVID 19
Friday 14th August. 7 am The newspaper has information gleaned overnight from school letters and emails. There has been spread of the virus beyond South…
Posted: 14 August 2020
Categories: COVID 19, Lectionary, New Zealand
It is fair to say that locally there are not many happy campers. We are facing at present not merely a lockdown in Auckland but…
Posted: 13 August 2020
Categories: music
Kea hates it when I start playing the music that was on the university radio in my youth. But the world they describe is now…
Posted: 13 August 2020
Categories: Christianity, Theology
I love the old writers, because they did not have a bone of polticial correctiness in their body. To deny the divinity of Christ is…
Posted: 13 August 2020
Categories: Australia, COVID 19, Lectionary, New Zealand
As we locally move into a mandatory panic over a virus, I had a correction or five, and I want to mention John’s comment that…
Posted: 12 August 2020
Categories: Poetry
This is late but I have been slightly distracted. We are sitting as a nation two thirds in social isolation and one third in lockdown….
Posted: 12 August 2020
Categories: COVID 19, Hardware, New Zealand
I got a phone call ;ast night from the lad. There had been a press conference, and Auckland is going into level III alert as…
Posted: 11 August 2020
Categories: Poetry
It appears that there is a literature I have not seen: but I do think that these are poets of my generation, and I’m getting…
Posted: 11 August 2020
Categories: Christianity, Lectionary, Life, New Zealand, Theology
I was asked to explain predestination a few days ago. I flubbed it, and I was called out. Since then, I have been thinking about…