For those of you who are not on wordpress and/or have jetpack installed, WordPress gives an animated summary every year.  However the statistics vary. In the last year, for what…

Read More 2012 statistics… 2013 plans.

This is a Sunday, and we are on holiday. The only protestant service we could have gone to is over (Eight am. I woke up after that). I can hear…

Read More Jesus was not feral, because of Joseph.

One of the problems in our society is that we have removed the structures that allow men and women to live in peace and even have fun. The ideas around…

Read More Our God is a God of Justice, (so be afraid).

I;m on holiday and it has become fairly obvious that I will have to limit communications until I am back in Dunedin. I miss fast broadband. I will still post…

Read More On semi break

We have a problem with literalism when it comes to exegesis, or determining exactly what a biblical text means. You have to consider the mode of address that is being…

Read More Metaphor leads to truth, but is not truth.

This passage makes my head hurt. It is important for many reasons — at a time when the secularists are increasing, anti christian rhetoric is so common to be unremarkable,…

Read More Alinksyite projection

This is driven by a couple of comments recently from two men in tne androsphere I respect, 7man and freebird. They noted that SSM had given her husband quite a…

Read More Self defense.

It is 0830. In about one hour the shops open, and the biggest retail day of the year starts. Boxing day was originally the day that food was given to…

Read More This is not the boxing day sales (St Stephen and all martyrs)

Well, it is Christmas Morning. We are helping in the kitchen (which includes keeping out and letting the cook go for it, if needed). As is our tradition, we are…

Read More Love, not division, for (but) today.