I’ve found another good source of translations for the early church fathers: the Patristics project. In general, I’d ignore their blog and look instead at…
Month: October 2019
When I was young, I found proverbs hard, harsh, unloving. I thought that one’s motivation for good would cover much and you would be able…
If the Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of any age, then those of the ages before and to come are ignored. To our peril. Prophets…
We do not need the law of Moses or the teachings of Christ to damn us. The standards of our nation and the judgements of…
More Eliot. More of the first quartet: Burnt Norton. The term twittering has more meaning in these days, as it is now branded, monetized, and…
The problem in these days is two fold. The first is that being a shepherd requires that you stand up to the spirits of this…
It is late spring in NZ, and we are starting to have pwe are starting to have bush fires where we have not cleared the…
Today, in NZ, is Labour Day. It is a public holiday — celebrating the limitation of work to a reasonable and sustainable number of hours…
Over the last two weeks we have been visiting and being visited by our parent’s generation: now in their ninth decade. They are all still…
Look not at the circumstances of the day. There are those who counsel despair, quoting the voice of the people or the new laws that…