Month: April 2014

Midori is probably the best alternative browser.

Posted on By pukeko
For many reasons I am not using Firefox. For some things the alternative that works best is chromium, but it is a very big programme, and it can get quite slow. You are also locked into the Google ecosystem. And sometimes that is not wise. I… Read More

Prayers, not snark.

Posted on By pukeko
This is going to be very brief. One of the folks who hangs around the tradosphere and has for some time has commented:
Can you maybe tell people not to send me vicious hate e-mail wishing me ill? I never doxxed SSM, I did not work in cahoots…
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This sin of worry.

Posted on By pukeko
The sermon today was around Matthew 6:25 -- do not worry. The comment that was most apropos is that God is competent and faithful, and the issue we have is that we mistrust God to be who he is, and that is faithful. Instead we, like the pagans,… Read More

Unity at sunset [quotage]

Posted on By pukeko
I have spent most of the day at home. This photo was taken on a evening run trying to catch the light as the sun went down -- I was using a film camera but as it ran out switched to my cellphone. Free Northerner on Read More

The ineffectiveness of credentials and the un-electability of the minority factions [quotage}

Posted on By pukeko
The practitioners of the politics of identity can move a party to the point where it is… Read More

Hell and an error of the narrative approach.

Posted on By pukeko
This is going to get a little postmodern and confrontational this morning. The idea that Christ is a myth was invented by the late Victorians with their acceptance of modernism and materialism. This led to a new problem: that the gospel… Read More

Prayers [Music, OZ and Kiwi only].

Posted on By pukeko
Although it is ANZAC day, and I've alluded to this in the lectionary post, I am aware that there are those who need prayer right now. It has been a tough ten days for me, and I have been made aware that there are others suffering, and they need our… Read More