Yesterday while I was doing some routine tasks on my computer I had the TV news running in the background. Sky News had nothing but swine flu. As far as they were concerned, nothing else was happening in the world. I switched to CNN, and found much the same thing, though they had some reporing [...]
Entries from April 2009
27 April 2009
Emerging church in North America
It seems that a new church is emerging in North America.
TitusOneNine – Emerging Anglican Province Announces 28 Dioceses:
Leaders representing Canadian and US orthodox Anglican jurisdictions approved applications for membership of 28 dioceses and dioceses-in-formation and finalized plans for launching the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA). Twelve Anglican organizations are uniting to form the ACNA.
The [...]
23 April 2009
Youth ministry
There is quite a lot of discussion of youth ministry among Christians. There are blogs devoted to discussion of it, and many mentions of it elsewhere, outside the blogosphere. What one does not find so often, however is mention of the fact that the term “youth ministry” can mean two very different things.
Ministry to the [...]
21 April 2009
Who to vote for?
Are you wondering who to vote for in South Africa’s fourth democratic election tomorrow?
Hat-tip to Cobus for a link to the Mail & Guardian Poll Predictor, which asks you a series of questions based on the policies of the various parties, and then based on your answers suggests the parties you should consider voting for.
In [...]
19 April 2009
If Jesus came today
Having just completed Holy Week, I was intrigued by this interesting and thoughtful post by Calacirian: How would we know?
If Jesus had been incarnate today, where are circumstances similar to Jerusalem in AD 33?
If Washington DC is latter day Rome, I asked him, “then where would latter day Israel be?” We talked through what [...]
15 April 2009
Neopentecostalism in Africa, and abroad
One of the blogs I read regularly had some interesting comments on an African independent church from Nigeria that was engaged in mission in the USA (Notes from a Common-place Book: On Pork-pie Hats, Nigerian Evangelists and Baptists in Boots).
I keep a database of African Independent Churches (AICs), and checked to see if this one, [...]
13 April 2009
Liturgy and language
I came across an interesting blog post recently that pointed out that when the missionaries St Cyril and St Mathodius translated liturgical texts into Slavonic, this did not make the services immediately accessible to those who heard them.
…when Sts. Kirill and Methody did their translating, they were, on the one hand, translating into the language [...]
12 April 2009
Nato’s shame
It is not without reason that some people have nicknamed Nato the North Atlantic Terrorist Organisation.While it has talked much about the “war on terror”, ten years ago it teamed up with, and acted as the air force of a terrorist organisation, the Kosovo Liberation Army, whose atrocities have been systematically covered up.
clipped from www.wsws.org
Fresh [...]
11 April 2009
Lazarus Saturday – April 11th 2009
Lazarus Saturday
By the late Protopresbyter Alexander Schmemann
“Great Lent is completed and comes to an end with two bright,
festal days, or rather, a two-in-one. two-day feast. This is Lazarus
Saturday, recalling Christ’s raising of his dead friend Lazarus,
recalling Palm Sunday, when we celebrate Christ’s triumphal
entrance into Jerusalem six days before he was betrayed to suffer
and die on [...]
10 April 2009
Orthodox Holy Week Services in Brixton, Johannesburg, 2009
A couple of months ago a number of emerging church people in Gauteng visited St Nicholas Orthodox Church in Brixton, Johannesburg, for Vespers, and engaged in discussion with members of the congregation afterwards.
Those who might be interested in experiencing more of Orthodox worship might like to attend some of the Holy Week and Easter Services [...]
