It’s not what you know but who you know they say — well, who do you know?
My wife was watching a TV programme called Human Footprint the other day, which had all kinds of information about what we consume and produce from the cradle to the grave. For example, if all the farts the average [...]
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Carla Del Ponte, the ex-chief prosecutor for war crimes in former Yugoslavia, has unleashed a storm of recrimination with allegations of a trade in human body parts in Kosovo and Albania after Nato bombed Serbia in 1999.
Del Ponte claims, based on what she describes as credible reports and witnesses, that Kosovan Albanian guerrillas [...]
There’s been a sudden increase of blogging about liberation theology since Barack Obama’s pastor hit the headlines.It has brought forth some very strange comments and perceptions, such as that those, who like Archbishop Romero were crushed by the power of the state for opposing the abuse of power actually supported what they opposed.
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On Sunday 17 February 2008 the ruling political party in Kosovo made a unilateral declaration of independence from Serbia. The Republic of Serbia did not agree to Kosovo becoming independent.
Why should South Africans, and South African Orthodox Christians in particular, care about this? Kosovo is far away in Europe, and many of us would find [...]
An article by Janet Daley in The Daily Telegraph puts a finger on one of the core issues raised by the Archbishop of Canterbury in his recent discussion of the possibility of introducing some aspects of Sharia law into Britain.
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I would argue that the dilemma that Dr Williams thought he was addressing was [...]
In some parts of the Internet you can find lots of militant atheists, determined to convince anyone who will listen that Jesus never existed.
“Prove it,” they say.
Well, how do you prove that Winston Churchill existed?
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Britons are losing their grip on reality, according to a poll that came out on Monday, which showed [...]
Adoption is not as secret as it used to be, so there is less likelihood of this happening than it was 30-40 years ago, but the right iof children to know the identity of their biological parents needs to be protected.
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Twins separated at birth and adopted by separate parents later married each [...]
US imperialism has created the worst of all worlds, says the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury. I don’t disagree. But when he says that the United States wields its power in a way that is worse than Britain in its imperial heyday, I think he has not studied history enough.
Back at the beginning of 2003, [...]
A common complaint among well-to-do white South Africans is that there is too much harping on the past, and blaming the legacy of apartheid for the problems of the present. Apartheid ended nearly 14 years ago, they say. Why can’t we put all that behind us, forgive and forget and move forward? Blaming the [...]
Anja Merret writes that bloggers blog because they want to make a mark on history, and perhaps in some way immortalise themselves.
Listening to a talk on TED by Mena Trott, co-founder of Six Apart, a start-up that has successfully developed such products as TypePad and more recently Vox for bloggers, I started considering a whole [...]
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