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 [...]
I was idly surfing through some blogs on Blog Catalog, and came across this piece, which I rather liked.
I have come to understand the meaning of “coolness” in spiritual terms.A person is `cool’ when he or she is free from pressing desires (grasping) which always produce dissonant emotions (uncoolness).
An uncool person squirms with needs, waiting [...]
Yesterday was the 5th Sunday of Pascha, the Sunday of the Samaritan Woman.
Sunday of the Samaritan Woman
The Holy Martyr Photina (Svetlana) the Samaritan Woman, her sons Victor (named Photinus) and Joses; and her sisters Anatola, Phota, Photis, Paraskeva,…
Life of the Saint
Troparion and Kontakion
It was a most appropriate occasion for teaching about the evil of [...]
A few weeks ago there was xenophobic violence at Atteridgeville, west of Pretoria. Two people were killed, and hundreds of foreigners were chased out of Brazzaville, an informal settlement in Atteridgeville West. Father Frumentius, the Orthodox priest there, gave about 20 of them refuge in the orphanage he runs with his wife Evgenia. He [...]
His Beatitude Theodoros II, Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and all Africa, arrived in South Africa this morning, and was greeted by clergy and laity of the Orthodox Archdiocese of Johannesburg and Pretoira at the Metropolis in Houghton, Johannesburg.
He will spend a week in Johannesburg, and then go to Durban and Port Elizabeth to consecrate [...]
When I announced that we would be blogging for human rights today, someone called Bewilderbeast commented:
Please let’s remember human rights are just that, and religion should not enter the debate. All humans should be welcomed to debate their rights - and the absence of rights for so many - without feeling excluded on faith grounds. [...]
Today is the Sunday of the Myrrh-bearing Women, and I went off to Mamelodi on my own, as Val has flu and her voice had gone, so she wouldn’t have been able to help much with the singing, but I missed her because I couldn’t remember the melody for Tone 2, and confused it with [...]
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