This morning I had to take my son to the Pretoria Showgrounds on the other side of town to write an exam. To fill in the couple of hours while he was writing, I decided to visit an old friend in West Park. I couldn ‘t quite remember where he lived, so I drove around [...]
Entries from October 2009
21 October 2009
Anglicans and Orthodoxy
The news that the Roman Catholic Church has set up a new mechanism for receiving disaffected Anglicans has caused a bit of a flurry in the Christian blogosphere. The Orthodox have also been talking to disaffected Anglicans; recently Metropolitan Jonah, of the Orthodox Church in America, addressed a breakaway group, the Anglican Church of North [...]
19 October 2009
Recent reading: To dream of the dead
To Dream of the Dead by Phil Rickman
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
This is more of a “what I learned from this book” than a review.
It was about ten or twelve years ago that I picked up one of Phil Rickman’s books (it was Crybbe or Candlenight), concluded from the blurb that Rickman was [...]
18 October 2009
Visiting bishop
Bishop Milutin, of the Serbian Orthodox Diocese of Australia and New Zealand, visited St Thomas’s Church in Sunninghill, Johannesburg, for their patronal festival last weekend. Bishop Milutin has been Bishop of Australia for three years, and after visiting Serbia, returned to his diocese via Africa. It was his first visit to Africa, he said, and [...]
18 October 2009
Vanishing articles
The following missiological articles will be disappearing from the web on 26th October 2009. Read them while you have the chance.
Most of them were originally published in Missionalia, the journal of the Southern African Missiological Society (SAMS).
African Independent Churches – judgment through terminology? by Stephen Hayes
African “Jews” for Jesus – mission among the Lemba, by [...]
15 October 2009
Ennui, entropy and apathy
Today is Blog Action Day
More than 7000 bloggers have registered to participate and thousands more will join in the next 24 hours. There’s already buzz growing across the blogosphere and on Twitter in anticipation, with updates from around the world every minute about the upcoming event.
If you haven’t signed up, it’s not too late.
We will [...]
13 October 2009
More entropy in the blogosphere
Is the blogosphere dying?
More and more things seem not to be working.
Every time I go into Amatomu I get the message
Oops, you hit a database error. It’s either something we did, or something you did. Yeah, it’s probably your fault.
It used to happen once a week or so, but now it happens every time.
And more [...]
8 October 2009
Emerging church in Russia
The Russian Orthodox Church’s emerging role – Telegraph:
In the 20 years since the collapse of the Soviet system, the Russian Church has been rebuilt from ruins inhabited by shuffling old women and somewhat eccentric zealots into the most powerful body on the post-Soviet stage.
No other Russian social institution has experienced such a rising from the [...]
7 October 2009
Juan Cole: Top 10 things you know about Iran that aren’t true
Well, though I didn’t know the things Juan Cole (whoever he may be) thought I knew, no doubt he thought that somebody thought they knew them, so if you are among those, here’s Juan Cole’s dope to set you right.
clipped from www.juancole.com
Belief: Iran is aggressive and has threatened to attack Israel, its neighbors or [...]
5 October 2009
Righteous anger
A couple of days ago one of my Pagan blogging friends wrote The Stroppy Rabbit:
It has long been observed that some Odinists have right-wing tendencies (though by no means all, as the Heathens against Hate campaign demonstrates). The other two Pagans described above may not be Odinists, however.
There is no place in Paganism for far [...]
