Tag: offense

Steadfastness is an act of secular subversion.

Posted on By pukeko
Over the last few weeks I have been using photos from around Florence. They are a bit old -- I was there for a meeting in 2009 (staying in the cheapest hotel in town, with high school students in most of the beds, I blew out the daily living… Read More

Love is offensive. (Patti Smith on the side)

Posted on By pukeko
It is going to be difficult to write about the text today. We had a tragedy locally over the summer and it's just been written up in the Herald.  A man, separated form his wife and children, murdered the children and then suicided. The Herald has… Read More

Christ offended: popularity was not in him.

Posted on By pukeko
Today is Waitangi day. It is instructive to see how the internal tribal politics within each tribe or iwi have limited development and productivity of land, and that the government is trying to fix that: the minister of finance and the… Read More