Bulgakov conference

Some interesting posts on Sergei Bulgakov, the 20th century theologian, from In the land of unlikeness:
The Bulgakov Blog conference starts today. We begin with a piece written by Cynthia Nielsen of Per Caritatem. Cynthia was gracious enough to let us repost her excellent introduction to Bulgakov. Following her format, I will post this in 2 [...]

Scoutle — a promising blog tool or…?

If you look down the sidebar you will find a link to Scoutle, a web site which promises more interested readers for your blog.
I discovered Scoutle when I visited the blog of someone who visited my blog, and I paid a return visit through MyBlogLog. From the description it sounded like quite a useful blog [...]

Interfaith synchroblog on interreligious dialogue

A group of us us are planning to hold a synchronised blog (synchroblog) on the general topic “Interreligious dialogue” on October 8.
People of any religion (or none) are welcome to take part. If you are interested in learning more, see Notes from underground: Interfaith synchroblog and forum.

Wisdom! Let us attend

Bishop Seraphim writes in his LiveJournal:
Looking into matter of ‘Sobornost’ I find a good quote from I.V.Kireyevsky who can be regarded as the initiator of the terminology:
“In the physical world each being lives and is
maintained only by the destruction of others,
while in the spiritual world the construction
of each personality constructs all and
each lives by the [...]

Money and morals

In a blog post on Free market — free from our control, Father Ted says:
Millions will suffer because of the greedy decisions of the few; no matter what happens these few will walk away with millions. And no one will hold them or their cheerleading investors accountable. It is the free market [...]

St Nicholas Church 21st birthday bash

Last night St Nicholas Orthodox Church in Brixton, Johannesburg, had a party to celebrate its 21st birthday. It was the first English-speaking Orthodox parish in South Africa.
The party, appropriately enough, was held in the hall of the Pantanassa Church in Melrose, because that is where St Nicholas had its beginnings. Pantanassa was originally intended to [...]

The eye of the beholder

Wisdom! Let us attend.
“Father, why are you sad?” – a pupil asked the elder.
“People have forgotten how to see truth. Three times I showed three of you white clothes with a dirty stain. And I asked, ‘What do you see?’ ‘A dirty stain,’ said every one of you.
And no one thought to answer – a [...]

Conservatives scared of spiders, liberals have moral blind spots

Scientists have been investigating peoples’ moral and political compass, and have come up with some dubious conclusions. Conservatives are scared of spiders, and liberals have moral blind spots, they say.

clipped from gawker.com

Rice University Political Scientist John Alford published some research in the creatively named journal Science about a possible biological basis to liberalism and conservatism.

Liberals [...]

The silly season

The US general election is upon us, and is dominating the blogosphere, and Usenet, and the Internet generally. It’s virtually impossible to escape it.
Now that the presidential candidates have been decided, it’s also reached the silly stage, where political debate has been abandoned for the hurling of abuse against the unfavoured candidates. Everywhere one looks [...]

How racist are you?

Ryland Fisher at Thought Leader comments on the response to his recent comments on black and white racism:
The response to my last blog on black racists proves what I have known for a long time: South Africans are still heavily divided along racial grounds and they find it difficult to have a discussion on the [...]