Khanya
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Theology, politics, literature, society, culture
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The next election
The Shrieking Man has some interesting comments on the current state of South African politics as we prepare for next year’s general election. Things seem to be in a state of flux, when a recent survey on the president’s performance producing an unusually high proportion of “don’t knows”. Anyway,
Blog comment day
Yesterday was blog comment day. Don’t tell me you missed it. In case you did, you were supposed to comment on at least five different blogs, including two blogs on which you hadn’t commented before. But never mind, I’m sure bloggers won’t mind if you do it today, or
Onward Christian terrorists
I hesitated to blog about this, because Nouslife and Alan Hirsch have already done so. But the more I read these “lessons”, the more evil they looked. Lesson one: The great human questions, including the great questions of public life, are ultimately theological Lesson two: To speak of
Mythical Monsters
This post is part of a mythology synchroblog on mythical monsters and otherworldly entities. As a Christian I’ll be concentrating mainly on Christian mythology in this post. First, it seems to be necessary to define “mythical monsters” and “otherworldly entities”. What is “myth”? As the Orthodox philosopher, Nicolas Berdyaev,
Vespers at St Sergius
Last night we went to Vespers and Matins at St Sergius Church in Midrand. It marked the tenth anniversary of the starting of the parish, and the fifth anniversary of the consecration of the church. Bishop Kirill of Smolensk, who had consecrated the church, was visiting, and the local
St Stalin?
A Russian priest has caused controversy by putting up an ikon depicting the Bolshevik dictator Stalin (hat-tip to Fr Milovan in Again and again): One of the most widely covered stories in the Russian Federation this week concerns not the actions of President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir
Widdershins
“He turned to his right, knowing that is is unlucky to walk around a church widdershins, and followed the path close beneath the wall till he found himself standing by the west door”. That sentence struck me as odd the first time I read it, in Dorothy Sayers’s novel
Christian responses to people suffering from HIV/Aids
This is old, but still worth reading. His Beatitude Teoctist, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church: A message, urging to love and tolerance for those suffering from AIDS/ HIV Romania, 27 January 2004 Beloved brothers and sisters, We are still at the beginning of the year, at a time
Children and religious belief
Some militant atheists have claimed that children are natural atheists, and that it is only adult indoctrination that makes them believe in God or gods. Here is a report of some research that appears to refute that contention: Justin L Barrett: Do children believe because they’re told to by
Sexual ethics?
Hat-tip to the Stroppy Rabbit for the link to this chart on religion and sexual ethics, and for providing a pagan view in addition to the original chart, which is said to have appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle in December 1994. It was compiled, according to them, “based