New Zealand Archives - Heather's Homilies https://www.heatherhastie.com/category/new-zealand/ My take on our world Thu, 12 Dec 2019 21:48:42 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://www.heatherhastie.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/cropped-tweetkiwi-512px-32x32.png New Zealand Archives - Heather's Homilies https://www.heatherhastie.com/category/new-zealand/ 32 32 White Island (plus Tweets) https://www.heatherhastie.com/just-to-prove-i-really-am-back-plus-tweets/ https://www.heatherhastie.com/just-to-prove-i-really-am-back-plus-tweets/#comments Thu, 12 Dec 2019 02:15:34 +0000 https://www.heatherhastie.com/?p=7606 After saying ‘I’m Back‘ a few days ago, there was nothing more on the site to encourage you to believe me. I’ve been writing about the topics that got a mention in that post. But, short of posting boring videos of me tapping away, there’s no way to prove that. Further, it produces no immediately […]

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]]> https://www.heatherhastie.com/just-to-prove-i-really-am-back-plus-tweets/feed/ 20 The Christchurch Massacre https://www.heatherhastie.com/the-christchurch-massacre/ https://www.heatherhastie.com/the-christchurch-massacre/#comments Tue, 02 Apr 2019 05:23:44 +0000 https://www.heatherhastie.com/?p=7135 It was two weeks on Friday since a self-confessed white supremacist changed New Zealand forever. Friday 15th March 2019 is a day many New Zealanders, including me, naïvely thought would never come to this country. It’s the day a terrorist committed mass murder on our soil. “The Christchurch Massacre” is now part of our history. […]

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]]> https://www.heatherhastie.com/the-christchurch-massacre/feed/ 49 Kakapo Lego (plus Tweets) https://www.heatherhastie.com/kakapo-lego-plus-tweets/ https://www.heatherhastie.com/kakapo-lego-plus-tweets/#comments Mon, 18 Jun 2018 03:40:07 +0000 https://www.heatherhastie.com/?p=6407 Regular readers will be aware I’m a Lego fan. I didn’t have any when I was a kid, but I’ve bought some as an adult. Nieces and nephews coming along was really cool, because it gave me an excuse to buy a lot more. It’s amazing how much of it stays at my place … […]

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]]> https://www.heatherhastie.com/kakapo-lego-plus-tweets/feed/ 25 Geoff Robson: Lying for Jesus and Wrong about Richard Dawkins https://www.heatherhastie.com/geoff-robson-lying-jesus/ https://www.heatherhastie.com/geoff-robson-lying-jesus/#comments Mon, 14 May 2018 04:42:01 +0000 https://www.heatherhastie.com/?p=6269 Richard Dawkins gave a couple of talks in New Zealand recently. He’s here promoting his new book, Science in the Soul. As usual that brought people out of the woodwork with the message the atheists are either stupid, lying, or just plain evil. None ever sees the irony in their statements. One prime example is […]

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]]> https://www.heatherhastie.com/geoff-robson-lying-jesus/feed/ 53 NZ’s Pregnant Prime Minister (plus Tweets) https://www.heatherhastie.com/nzs-pregnant-prime-minister-plus-tweets/ https://www.heatherhastie.com/nzs-pregnant-prime-minister-plus-tweets/#comments Mon, 30 Apr 2018 03:27:57 +0000 https://www.heatherhastie.com/?p=6211 First off I must apologise. (Yes, that’s how we spell it in New Zealand.) I’ve been neglecting my website for a couple of weeks. There has been writing going on, but none of it made it here. Two posts are progressing slowly, and one may actually see the light of day. (Not every post I […]

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]]> https://www.heatherhastie.com/nzs-pregnant-prime-minister-plus-tweets/feed/ 32 A New Prince, God’s Grace, and Blasphemy Laws (plus Tweets) https://www.heatherhastie.com/a-new-prince-gods-grace-and-blasphemy-laws-plus-tweets/ https://www.heatherhastie.com/a-new-prince-gods-grace-and-blasphemy-laws-plus-tweets/#comments Tue, 24 Apr 2018 03:54:46 +0000 https://www.heatherhastie.com/?p=6173 As I’m sure you’ve all heard by now we have a new royal baby, and it’s a boy. Katherine, Duchess of Cambridge gave birth to a son just after 11 am 23 April London time. I can’t let that pass without a mention, if only to piss off the USians! I won’t go into raptures […]

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]]> https://www.heatherhastie.com/a-new-prince-gods-grace-and-blasphemy-laws-plus-tweets/feed/ 34 Israel Folau and Christian Morality https://www.heatherhastie.com/israel-folau-christian-morality/ https://www.heatherhastie.com/israel-folau-christian-morality/#comments Thu, 19 Apr 2018 07:10:14 +0000 https://www.heatherhastie.com/?p=6155 I wasn’t sure what to write about today, then I got The Author’s weekly email. The Author is the brilliant Jesus and Mo cartoonist. His strip this week is about religious morality, and it brought to mind the big news story in New Zealand and Australia at the moment. It began on 9 April when […]

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]]> https://www.heatherhastie.com/israel-folau-christian-morality/feed/ 36 Auckland Uni Sacks Staff Member for Trying to Shake Hands with Muslim Student (plus Tweets) https://www.heatherhastie.com/auckland-uni-sacks-staff-shake-hands-muslim/ https://www.heatherhastie.com/auckland-uni-sacks-staff-shake-hands-muslim/#comments Thu, 08 Mar 2018 02:10:15 +0000 https://www.heatherhastie.com/?p=5965 Things are slightly better today. We won the fourth one-dayer (cricket) against England yesterday! It was a really exciting game. Ross Taylor was amazing – back to his best. His outstanding performance makes him every Kiwi cricket fan’s hero today. I’ve put several tweets on his feat in the “Sports Tweets” below. So there’s a […]

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]]> https://www.heatherhastie.com/homily-plus-tweets/feed/ 27 10 Nov: Homily (Winston Peters Again) and Tweets https://www.heatherhastie.com/10-nov-homily-winston-peters-tweets/ https://www.heatherhastie.com/10-nov-homily-winston-peters-tweets/#comments Fri, 10 Nov 2017 03:07:36 +0000 https://www.heatherhastie.com/?p=5404 I don’t know if there are any tweets about it because I haven’t looked, but a story in the Washington Post is causing a bit of a furore here. A USian living in NZ, Ben Mack, wrote a story for them called ‘How the far right is poisoning New Zealand‘. It’s incredibly ill-informed and quite […]

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