The Southern African Faith Communities’ Environment Institute’s annual conference begins in Johannesburg tomorrow (Monday, March 31). If you are interested, you can find the details here: SAFCEI: SAFCEI AGM and Public Meeting - Johannesburg.
I was rather hoping to attend, but when a service for my car cost R4000 more than I expected, my disposable income [...]
Our great Mikado, virtuous man
when he to rule this land began
resolved to try
a plan whereby
young men might best be steadied.
So he decreed in words succinct
That all who flirted, leered or winked
Unless connubially linked
Should forthwith be beheaded.
(W.S. Gilbert)
Hat-tip to Father David MacGregor
clipped from news.bbc.co.uk
South Africa’s new Sexual Offences Act includes a clause which could [...]
One of these quiz things - why do they all seem to have such Western bias?
Where are the Eastern Church Fathers — or Confucius, Buddha and others?
1.
St. Augustine (100%) Information link
2.
Aquinas (92%) Information link
3.
Ockham (89%) Information link
4.
Spinoza [...]
An evangelical Christian blogger, Stephen Murray, recently wrote about some comments of Desmond Tutu, the former Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, to the effect that the Anglican Church was spending too much time debating about homosexuality, when there were many more important and urgent issues to be concerned about.
There has been quite a lot of [...]
A new breakthrough in creating stem cells from human skin could solve bioethical problems in stem cell research
clipped from www.washingtonpost.com
Researchers in Wisconsin and Japan said yesterday that they have turned ordinary human skin cells into what are effectively embryonic stem cells without using embryos or women’s eggs — the previously essential ingredients that have [...]
In my first-year Theology course at university the first essay we were asked to write in the Ethics class was on Usury, and it forced us to look at the way that Christian ethical standards have changed over the centuries.
Lord, who shall dwell in Thy tabernacle: or who shall rest upon thy holy hill?
He who [...]
There is an interesting, if rather misleading, new way of categorising socio-economic groups and values in South Africa: as consumerists, collectivists and welfarists.
clipped from www.busrep.co.za
Strong economic growth has seen poorer people becoming less collectivist and more consumerist, and conversely wealthier citizens have come to care more about societal issues than individual prosperity.
The survey [...]
There has been a great deal of publicity about the ABCs of avoiding sexually-transmitted diseases (STDs), like HIV/Aids.
Abstain
Be faithful
Condomise
Some of those who advocated C accused those who advocated the other two of genocide and worse. But now it seems that some are acknowledging that those who advocated the first two were right all along.
With all [...]
I’ve come across two posts recently on non-violent direct action. The first is about those protesting against the erection of the Israel/Palestine apartheid wall.
I was recently rereading my diaries for 1989, that annus mirabilis when pro-democracy demonstratons were breaking out all over, and dictators fell in Romania and Paraguay and several other places, including, [...]
Judging from the amount of money and publicity devoted to it, one would think that HIV/Aids was by far the most serious health problem in South Africa, but at a seminar on Organ and Tissue Transplants held at Unisa this week, it seems that other widespread problems are getting far too little attention, such as [...]
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