EVENT
#2 in the current Christian Mind seminar series is on 5.30pm, Tuesday 9 May, with “What about violence in the Bible?”, featuring Chris Marshall, at Ramsey House, 8 Kelburn Parade.
Wednesday 03 May, 02006
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Monday 08 May, 02006
EVENT
Joel Carpenter’s first wine / poetry / acoustic music evening is on at 8pm, Wednesday 10 May. Features Stevie Starr, Cameron Hockly, Annabel Henderson-Morrell, Matthew Baird, among others. BYO wine. Ramsey House, 8 Kelburn Parade.
Thursday 11 May, 02006
fuel$aver.govt.nz, which Ian (Aaron’s business partner) and I made, was launched today by Harry Duynhoven.
Friday 12 May, 02006
Two sections
It’s raining out and I’m on the bus this morning and everyone’s all damp and with averting or closed eyes, and a man comes in with an I’d say one-and-a-half-year-old child sobbing slightly (the child that is) and I open my eyes and relinquish my relatively warm spot next to the relatively warm asian woman, and he sits her (the child that is) down where I was, and I know it’s not necessarily all that to be prodded at by an old greek lady testing the softness of your cheeks, and he (the man that is) has likely pretty much had enough of the attention and of our silent conjectures as to whether he has an arrangement with his ex for Fridays, but still it’s marvelous the way everyone’s bus faces fall off within thirty seconds, and everyone’s vying, trying to be the one to make her (the child that is) smile. And they have that power and they lose it pretty early on, except when you remember you can always give it back.
Saturday 13 May, 02006
Monday 15 May, 02006
For the price of a cup of tea
I like having something to look forward to. I am looking forward to seeing Belle & Sebastian in Perth with Simon & Natasha in three weeks.
Tuesday 16 May, 02006
EVENT
#3 in the current Christian Mind seminar series is on tonight at 5.30pm. Tim McKenzie will talk about the Environment & the End, and I will be ‘resource person’. It’s at Ramsey House, 8 Kelburn Parade.
Agatha Katzensprung photography [via popexperiment]
“Are the gospels historical truth?”
“They are a set of faithful witnesses to the identity of Jesus as that identity was preserved in the early church’s memory and received and interpreted in the early church’s tradition.”
(said Richard Hays in a discussion about (among other things) The Da Vinci Code [mp3 audio])
NZ is the extinction capital of the world, according to one Dr Tim Blackman. A quote from the article:
220 years ago, Captain Cook’s botanist, Joseph Banks, wrote of these shores: “I was awak’d by the singing of the birds ashore from whence we are distant not a quarter of a mile. Their voices were certainly the most melodious wild music I have ever heard, almost imitating small bells but with the most tuneable silver sound imaginable … They begin to sing at about 1 to 2 in the morn and continue until sunrise.”
The Karori Wildlife Sanctuary is asking for helpers for its street appeal
Wednesday 17 May, 02006
Thursday 18 May, 02006
Friday 19 May, 02006
Sunday 21 May, 02006
Monday 22 May, 02006
Kunstler lo-fi video series on oil & the future [5× ~2MB WMV & QT]
… which makes me think perhaps this industrial story he talks about is the key one that the Israel/Jesus/Church story has to butt heads with. Like, it’s not about philosophy or religious experience.
Tuesday 23 May, 02006
EVENT The Third Man, 7pm Wednesday, 8 Kelburn Parade
A man with good (my) music taste buys a hat
Our nice house is looking for one more person
Why Kunstler et al are pissing into the wind (warning: commie alert)
Kunstler is coming to Auckland in August
Carbon Dioxide: They call it pollution, we call it life [via Isaac]
EVENT #4 in the current Christian Mind seminar series is on tonight at 5.30pm, at Ramsey House, 8 Kelburn Parade. Tim McKenzie & James King will talk about Creation, and try and find a third way between fundamentalism and liberalism.
Creaxion
There’s Abraham right. He’s the key. It’s Israel’s history. It’s all about Israel, what’s it here for? That first stuff in Genesis is the prolog, setting the scene, who is this god who calls? It’s working over stuff that maybe everyone knew, shaping it to make a point, to make some amazing points: the heavens are empty of deities save one, and humanity is not his slave or accidental effluvium but his deputy and a high point, and ordinary men and women all share in that, an identity independant of membership in a mighty human king; and the world is not the chaotic product of war, but good.
Wednesday 24 May, 02006
The reds are still red
This creation debate hangs on our differing ideas of what the Bible is. I think the Bible is a holy wrinkle in the bloodstained cloth of the world.
Thursday 25 May, 02006
Saturday 27 May, 02006
Sunday 28 May, 02006
Monday 29 May, 02006
Tuesday 30 May, 02006
EVENT The last of this semester’s Christian Mind series is on at 5.30pm today at Ramsey House 8 Kelburn Parade. It’s about Hell – indispensable doctrine at the core of orthodoxy, relic of the medievals, or something else? Perhaps some glorious third way is possible! The mighty Chris Marshall and the mighty Katharine Macaan will be resource persons. Also, the movie Divine Intervention is on at Ramsey tomorrow night.
