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Category: Festivals

Dirty laundry leads to Easter grave turning
Bodies

Dirty laundry leads to Easter grave turning

Posted on April 20, 2014January 30, 2018 by Sande Ramage

My Mum always said we shouldn’t wash our dirty linen in public. Secrets, lies, and doubts about anything, particularly the godstuff, were for the privacy…

Crumbling Christianity good news for Kiwis
Christmas

Crumbling Christianity good news for Kiwis

Posted on December 28, 2013January 30, 2018 by Sande Ramage

Joy to the world, the angels at Statistics New Zealand are singing a new song . Anglicans and Protestants are on the eve of destruction. We’ve got about…

Anzac Day Amnesia
ANZAC

Anzac Day Amnesia

Posted on April 28, 2012February 11, 2018 by Sande Ramage

Archibald Baxter is a hero to me.  I remember him on every Anzac Day. It’s my way of saying that his story, marked by brutality…

Easterpreneur
Art

Easterpreneur

Posted on April 6, 2012February 6, 2018 by Sande Ramage

Jim’s Easterpreneur cartoon made me smile. For a split second, I thought I knew what it meant, momentarily forgetting that no creative work about the…

Festivals transcend belief
Books

Festivals transcend belief

Posted on March 31, 2012February 6, 2018 by Sande Ramage

Emilie Selden has an appealing naïvety. She’s educated in the art and philosophy of alchemy but has no clue about more mundane matters like the…

Easter contradictions with Ms Monroe
Creative Arts

Easter contradictions with Ms Monroe

Posted on March 23, 2012February 6, 2018 by Sande Ramage

Michelle Williams is tantalizing in the movie, My Week with Marilyn. She ensures Ms Monroe is present, a disarming combination of innocent child and sensual…

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  • The most basic and urgent challenges facing New Zealand society are not economic. They are to do with our values – those activities which give meaning and purpose in our society, our social ecology, spirituality in the broadest sense. Andrew Hornblow, 1999
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