The South African pioneers of African freedom, like Tiyo Soga, Pixley kaIsaka Seme and J.J. Xaba would never have stood for xenophobia, President Thabo Mbeki said at a gathering in Tshwane this afternoon.
He was speaking at the National Tribute in Remembrance of the Victims of Attacks on Foreign Nationals and South Africans held in the [...]
In the previous post I questioned the belief of some theologians that “theology of religion” was all about whether one could find salvation in other religions. The question assumes that “other” religions have a similar notion of salvation to Christianity, and that “salvation” is what they are all about. I pointed out that the concept [...]
In a comment on my contribution to the missional synchroblog, Tim Victor said:
Though it appears that Buddhists and other Eastern views are more accepting I experience them as slowly attaining the same goal, i.e. in Krishna or in Buddha is real salvation but persist in your practice if you must in this life and you’ll [...]
In calling for a missional synchroblog Rick Meigs says:
I have a continuing concern that the term missional has become over used and wrongly used….I think it is time to make a bigger effort to reclaim the term, a term which describe what happens when you and I replace the “come to us” invitations with a [...]
Preamble
A couple of years ago, when our Constitutional Court was considering the question of homosexual marriage, I was asked by my bishop, His Eminence Metropolitan Seraphim, Archbishop of Johannesburg and Pretoria, to prepare a short paper on Christian marriage. In view of the confusion and conflicting opinions and controversies among other Christian groups on the [...]
Yesterday I went to St Stithians College Founders Day. I don’t often attend, but this was a special occasion, for me anyway, as I was in the class of ‘58, so it was 50 years since my matric year. Some schools try to arrange class reunions on such anniversaries — my wife’s school (Pinetown Convent) [...]
An interesting thing about the blogosphere is that it provides an opportunity to encounter people of different cultural backgrounds that one would be less likely to meet in real life. The disadvantage is that one meets people out of context. There are words and sometimes pictures, but until one sees people in their context, one [...]
This is a rough and raw version of the paper I read last week at the conference of the Association for the Study of Religion in Southern Africa (ASRSA) in Durban. Several people have asked where they could read it, so I thought I would post this version here. One day I may polish it [...]
People sometimes like to say that Christians stole all sorts of things from pagans, like Christmas and Easter and Hallowe’en. The evidence for that assertion is a bit shaky, and the links are indiect and rather tenuous. But where the evidence is a great deal stronger is that the Christians stole Hell from the pagans. [...]
Today I’m going to Durban to attend the conference of the Association for the Study of Religion in Southern Africa (ASRSA). I’ll be reading a paper on “Christian understandings of paganism and witchcraft”.
I don’t know if I’ll get a chance to blog while I’m there, but I might post a report on the conference on [...]
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