Easter

First published in Column Eight on the 26thMarch, 1991

 

What do the following have in common? Pigeons and myxomatosisand women and eggs and slavery and a missionary named Newbigin. Read on.

I was disappointed recently to see a former Dunediniteburbling on about our local Bishop, Penny, saying he couldn’t recognise her authority.In fact, he’d begun to wonder if he could recognise New Zealand in an Anglican senseat all. (Many of us don’t recognise New Zealand any more, but it doesn’t havea...