Archive for January, 2011
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Khanya Blog- Being missionary, being human – book review 21 January 2012Being missionary, being human: an overview of Dutch Reformed Mission by Willem Saayman My rating: 4 of 5 stars Twenty years ago I was chatting to Willem Saayman at lunch time in the Unisa cafeteria, and he told me something about his time as a Dutch Reformed Church missionary in Namibia. He was there from [...]
- Missiologists and economists 21 January 2012I’ve spent the last three days at the annual congress of the Southern African Missiological Society, and one of the things that struck me was how many of the speakers said, “I’m not an economist, but…” and then went on to talk about global economics. Over lunch one day I chatted with Stuart Bate, who [...]
- All is grace: book review (and SAMS Congress) 19 January 2012All Is Grace: A Biography of Dorothy Day by Jim Forest My rating: 5 of 5 stars A couple of years ago I read Love is the measure by Jim Forest, the biography of Dorothy Day, founder of the Catholic Worker movement, and I wrote a review of it, which I posted on my blog, [...]
- Real and imagined suffering 17 January 2012About 45 years ago I read Venture to the interior by Laurens van der Post, and was impressed by something he wrote on real and imagined suffering. It has always been one of the more frightening ironies of Afrikaner life that people like my father, who with Smuts and Botha had fought and actually suffered [...]
- The shadow of the wind — book review 12 January 2012The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón My rating: 5 of 5 stars A bookseller takes his ten-year-old son to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books in Barcelona in 1945, where he is allowed to choose one book. The book he chooses is The shadow of the wind by an almost unknown novelist, Julian [...]
- Being missionary, being human – book review 21 January 2012
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