I am not a pensioner yet, but this week is a “zero birthday” and I move up into another demographic classification point. I expect, unlike…
Posted: 23 September 2020
Categories: Analogue, New Zealand, The Decline
Category: New Zealand
Posted: 20 September 2020
Categories: Lectionary, New Zealand
I was going to write something else this morning, but events, dear Jim, Events. Gisberg died yesterday, and the press is going on about respecting…
Posted: 16 September 2020
Categories: Black Swan, COVID 19, New Zealand
From the NZ Treasury Pre Election Economic and Fiscal Report, which is a mandatory document prior to any election so that both the poltiical parties…
Posted: 16 September 2020
Categories: New Zealand
If unity springs from faith, then what does faith look like? It is a certainty. Not in what you see now, but in whwt you…
Posted: 15 September 2020
Categories: Australia, COVID 19, New Zealand
Didact Tries to Break the Internet on Monday, but I don’t see that until Tuesday. He has found that wordpress can embed almost anything. Yeah,…
Posted: 11 September 2020
Categories: Lectionary, New Zealand
Life is not linear. Nothing moves in a straight line: from the wearing of masks to economic hardship and famine. Those who farm know that…
Posted: 10 September 2020
Categories: COVID 19, New Zealand
A series of things I found in the papers today. I’m now avoiding the NZ Herald, who decided to publish a church’s tax returns as…
Posted: 9 September 2020
Categories: New Zealand, Social Change
This is what happens when I read the newspaper. Some background, but primarily from today’s news, some examples of how policies go sideways, governmental or…
Posted: 8 September 2020
Categories: Christianity, COVID 19, New Zealand, Wokeness
The Antipodean ‘Rona Parliament has risen, and we are having a election campaign with social distancing. Which means no rallies. And some truth bombs being…
Posted: 7 September 2020
Categories: COVID 19, Lectionary, New Zealand
I had the wife of one of the elders, who has been in ministry for most of her life, come up to me before church…