What is it about Benoni?

I’ve always thought of Benoni as a rather dull and humdrum middle-class suburb east of Johannesburg — the last place one would expect miracles to happen.
Now a Benoni teenager has claimed to be seeing visions of the Virgin Mary and has become something of a media sensation.
A few years ago people were claiming to see [...]

That hideous strength

In a post on Losing my religion Fr Stephen Freeman draws some lessons from C.S. Lewis’s That hideous strength and Charles Williams’s Descent into hell.
In That hideous strength a recently-married husband and wife with ordinary middle-class secular values are gradually drawn apart by many small choices they make. Mark Studdock, a lecturer at an English [...]

OCMC Mission team visit to South Africa

Yesterday we said goodbye to three young Americans who had spent three weeks in the Orthodox Archdiocese of Johannesburg and Pretoria. They had come as a short-term mission team from the Orthodox Christian Mission Center (OCMC) in St Augustine, Florida, at the invitation and with the blessing of His Eminence Metropolitan Seraphim, Archbishop of Johannesburg [...]

Incarnational mission

Matt Stone in Journeys in between has designed a useful little diagram to show the various positions of Christian mission being “in the world” but not “of the world”. Trackbacks from Typepad don’t always seem to work from other blog platforms, so if the above link doesn’t work you should be able to find it [...]

Eselgat

The Americanisation of South African English.
When I look at the latest posts from South African bloggers on Amatomu I see an increasing use of American terms like “asshole”. When used by South Africans it translates into Afrikaans as “eselgat”, and then back into American as “burro burrow”.
I’ve heard radio panel discussions where one person [...]

Eight things about me

I was tagged by The Young Fogey and David’s Daily Diversions.
Here are the rules…
1. Each player starts with eight random facts/habits about themselves.
2. People who are tagged need to write their own blog about their eight things and post these rules.
3. At the end of your blog, you need to choose eight people to get [...]