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Category: Lectionary

Mary the Creatrix
Christmas

Mary the Creatrix

Posted on December 21, 2020December 21, 2020 by Sande Ramage

If I was producing a nativity play, I’d pick a young black American woman called Orpah to play Mary. You probably know her as Oprah Winfrey through her television talk shows, Oprah and Oprah Soul Sundays. Vanity Fair magazine said…

Being enough undermines Christmas shopping
Christmas

Being enough undermines Christmas shopping

Posted on January 6, 2019January 7, 2019 by Sande Ramage

By 9am on Boxing Day thousands of Kiwis were touting their unwanted pressies on Trade Me or searching for bargains amongst someone else’s discards. Practical, but a tad tragic given that gift giving can be an art form full of…

  • 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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