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Khanya Blog- A missional church? Orthodox Church of St Nicholas of Japan, Brixton, Johannesburg 21 February 2012Last Sunday after the Divine Liturgy our parish had its Annual General Meeting, where various people reported on the state of the parish. There were the usual kinds of things at such meetings for a small parish — concern that expenditure exceeded income and so on. There were a couple of comments on fund-raising, but [...]
- Capitalist ecclesiology – is its victory complete in the West? 18 February 2012The consumerist approach to religion seems to have stormed one of the last strongholds. For a while now the GetReligion website has been a kind of watchdog on media religion reporting, at least in the US. Their thesis is that the media generally don’t “get” religion, and that stories with a religious angle are likely [...]
- Tales from Dystopia X: The banality of evil 13 February 2012The phrase “the banality of evil” became prominent with the publication of Hannah Arendt’s book Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, on the trial of Adolph Eichmann in Jerusalem. Eichman, an administrator in the bureaucracy of Nazi death camps, thought that he was simply doing his job. The phrase “the banality [... […]
- Popular culture, celebs and values 9 February 2012It seems, according to blogger Clarissa, that the time has come for me to be carted off to the dung-heap of existence, because I am out of sympathy with the values and aspirations of today’s youth. As she puts it Tweens and Values | Clarissa’s Blog: I always say that the moment you experience the [...]
- Death comes to Pemberley – book review 8 February 2012Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D. James My rating: 3 of 5 stars P.D. James is known mainly as a writer of detective and other crime stories, though she has occasionally ventured into other genres like fantasy. In this book, however, she combines her main genre, crime fiction, with two others — the historical novel [...]
- A missional church? Orthodox Church of St Nicholas of Japan, Brixton, Johannesburg 21 February 2012
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The first two sentences in the Morning Prayer are:
O Lord, grant that I may meet all that this coming day brings to me with spiritual tranquility. Grant that I may fully surrender myself to Thy Holy Will.
Well it seems you took the time to type it up again, or you recovered it. It makes a good read!
I had to re-type the whole thing. I thought WordPress automaticall saved stuff as it went along, but apparently it doesn’t always do that, or if it does, it also loses it.
I sometimes type a draft in a note-taking program, but didn’t in this case because the text was tied up with the linked pictures.