Tales from Dystopia I: Epukululo Lovawambo

Apartheid, we were told by its proponents, would create a paradise; not a Utopia, but a Eutopia. Instead it turned out to be a dystopia. But that is all in the past now, and why dredge it all up and tell tales of dystopia?
A couple of other bloggers have recently suggested some reasons for doing [...]

Musical genius

I didn’t intend to blog about the death of Michael Jackson, I really didn’t. After all, a zillion other people are probably blogging about him today — why should I add to the cacophony?
But then there was this dude on the TV, saying that Michael Jackson was the greatest musical genius of the 20th century. [...]

Human sexuality — bridging the gap

My post today is part of a larger initiative of more than 50 bloggers all sharing their thoughts on how to ‘bridge the gap’. You can check out the other links at www.btgproject.blogspot.com.
I’m still wondering why I’m participating in this synchroblog, since I don’t really have anthing coherent to say, but since I have [...]

Born again died again Christians

What are the top five social and ethical issues facing us today? Matt Stone asked this on this blog recently.
One of the things mentioned was torture, and something about that that ought to concern Christians is that in a recent survey in the USA a higher-proportion of churchgoers than non-churchgoers thought that torture was morally [...]

Behind the scenes at a funeral

Peter Nkhimise died last week and we buried him today.
I did not know him well. He was the younger brother of Christina Mothapo, who at 83 is the oldest member of our Mamelodi congregation (her godmother, Elizaveta Mullimos, is 95, and still drives herself to church). When I went to visit Christina her brother Peter [...]

What is worship?

In a comment on another post Roger Saner wonders “if Christianity is going to be split amongst those who believe the one true Gospel of Jesus (which is about repenting from your sins so that you’ll be saved from the coming judgement) and those who believe that G-d is at work restoring all of creation.”
Western [...]

Two kinds of people

According to Elder Paisius the Athonite there are two kinds of people:
I know from experience that in this life people are divided in two categories. A third category does not exist; people either belong to one or the other. The first one resembles the fly. The main characteristic of the fly is that it is [...]

Amahoro: modernity fights back

I came across this critique of the Amahoro gathering, parts of which I attended last week. I was going to say that it was an “interesting” critique, and then realised that I hadn’t found it interesting at all, but too much bother to read. Posting extracts of some of the things that were said [...]

Countercultural Christianity

I found the following blog widget, and tried it out for this blog:

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This rating was determined based on the presence of the following words:
* abortion (5x)
* missionary (4x)
* death (2x)
* pain (1x)
‘Nuff said!

Misty moon

After all the heavy theology and sociopolitical stuff of the last few days arising from the Amahoro conference, something calmer and less frenetic.
We’ve had a lot of unseasonal rain over the last few days, and last night I went out to fetch my son from work just before 10:00 pm, and when I got out [...]