Every day, in every city, many things happen which could be news. Many organizations produce press releases (as do politicians). Many meetings are helds, protests made, resolutions stated. And most of the time no one knows about them. They are not deemed newsworthy. ALthough they may be worthwhile, the findings or resolutions or act contradicts the narrative that a journal has, or writing about that … Read More →
Women have always worked in the church.
Yesterday’s sermon was by a layman. Well, he bow works with the poor. But he spant a fair amount of time as a car dealer, despite in his younger years hating car dealers. (He bought what he thought was a clean Holden kingswood — without rust and found the painful truth — in the 1980s rust free holdens did not exist in New Zealand). He … Read More →
200 posts up.
In March of this year the site was corrupted, and I had to start again. This week the site got corrupted again, but by switching off a few toys it got working again. According to the dashboard,this is the 200th post sincd the site got back up. Now I have had compliments over this time, and the occaisional serve. It happens. but today’s post relates … Read More →
A pagan liturgy.
I was in the gym late this morning. Just in time to see one of those things I try to avoid: the evidence of our secular religion. Which is sport. I watched a spectacularly choreographed piece of liturgy, which opened the Olympic Games. In this I noted: The subversion (again) of the Anglican Church, embodied in it’s head, Queen Elizabeth, declaring the darn thing open. … Read More →
(Failed) suicide prevention in the Gospel.
I have read this passage mulitiple times, but never really wearing a clinical hat. For there is an error here, and it is not to do with Judas. Matthew 27:1-10 1When morning came, all the chief priests and the elders of the people conferred together against Jesus in order to bring about his death. 2They bound him, led him away, and handed him over to … Read More →
SIte bugs and difficulties.
In the last 24 hours the site has been up and down constantly. I have checked the logs — there has been no great increase in traffic (instead, unsuprisingly) it is decreased. So no DNS attack. I have moved back to twenty-eleven as the theme @ present. I have also disabled Jetpack. That has sped things up considerably. The plugins left are disqus (for comments) … Read More →
Against the power seeking prelatess.
PSALM 36 1 Transgression speaks to the wicked deep in their hearts; there is no fear of God before their eyes. 2 For they flatter themselves in their own eyes that their iniquity cannot be found out and hated. 3 The words of their mouths are mischief and deceit; they have ceased to act wisely and do good. One of the things that I have noticed is that … Read More →
The visible law.
One of the rules of the Roman Republic was that the laws should be publicly visible, so all could read them and there was thus no reason that one would be ignorant of them. This is predated by the commands Joshua obeyed here. Joshua 8:30-35 30Then Joshua built on Mount Ebal an altar to the LORD, the God of Israel, 31just as Moses the servant … Read More →
The school competition and debian
Over the last 24 hours I have learnt a few things. Do not try to install Debian testing directly, including the Debian CUT image. At present, in my hands they are broken. Using Debian stable and then upgrade. When it is working, Debian is faster than Ubuntu. Do not install the Nvidia drivers on testing…. at present they are breaking X. Use the default (Nouveau) … Read More →
Unity III: we are one class of believers.
I was a bit late to the party, but Bill Price found a video of a couple of preachers laying into men. If got me riled. Firstly, he called the women in the church the Daughters of God, and then basically blamed men for all their behaviour. And if you disagreed, he claimed to be speaking on behalf of the Holy Spirit. Now, it may … Read More →
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