While Western Christians celebrate Hallowe’en, Orthodox Christians will be commemorating the unmercenary physicians SS Cosmas and Damian:
Trained and skilled as physicians, they received from the Holy Spirit the gift of healing people’s illnesses of body and soul by the power of prayer. They even treated animals. With fervent love for both God and neighbor, they [...]
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Prominent western missiologists joined their Asian counterparts for the first international conference of the Asian Society of Missiology on Tuesday.
Dozens of world renowned missiologists, including Dr. Ralph D. Winter of the U.S. Center for World Mission and Dr. David J. Cho of DavidCho Missiological Institute, have convened to participate in the ASM international [...]
In an article on Darfur vs. Ogaden, Mugabe vs. Meles, Stephen Gowans writes:
Many left activists and progressives claim to be equally opposed to oppression, whether practiced by the friends of imperialist powers or their enemies, but are virtually silent on the well documented oppressions of such US client states as Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Ethiopia, [...]
The crime rate has dropped in countries where leaded petrol has been banned, according to a recent report.
clipped from environment.independent.co.uk
Banning lead in petrol is responsible for declining crime rates in Britain, the United States and other countries, startling new research suggests.
Published in the peer-reviewed journal, Environmental Research, the study reports a “very strong association” [...]
“The speed at which mankind has used the Earth’s resources over the past 20 years has put “humanity’s very survival” at risk, a study involving 1,400 scientists has concluded.”, according to an article cited by Fr David Macgregor.
Should we care? Should we be concerned about this?
More than a century ago a town meeting in Durban [...]
The synchroblog on Halloween has been one of the most rewarding and informative so far, and I’d like to thank everyone who took part. I certainly learnt a lot from it.
Here are some of the things I learned
1. The US celebration of Halloween is about community
My own view of US Halloween customs was fairly negative. [...]
Nic Paton contemplates ikons and idols in a recent blog post.
He quotes a book by Peter Rollins called How (not) to speak of God:
Idolatry can be understood as the sin of viewing something as that which renders God’s very essence visible to human experience […] either aesthetic (like the Golden Calf mentioned in the book [...]
David gives an interesting example of peer pressure at school — his son goes to a Catholic school where he was taught to make the sign of the cross in the Western fashion.
I don’t know how old Aidan is, but it reminds me of something that happened many years ago in a state school in [...]
Funny place, the blogosphere. About a month ago I wrote a blog post called What to do on Sunday if you’re bored. And I had a look at one of those tracking thingies and found that it’s just about the most popular post of the month. It was inspired by a similar post by An [...]
This is the time of year when a lot of people start talking about Halloween (or Hallowe’en, if you prefer), but what they say or think about it depends very much on their cultural background and theological background.
It’s a big American cultural festival, and so a lot of talk on it goes on in the [...]
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