Lent is now over, and Holy Week is about to begin.
Today we went to Tembisa for the Hours and Readers Service in a simple classroom, with ikons of Christ and the Theotokos propped on a table. We had no palms, but we did sing, many times, the Troparion:
By raising Lazarus from the dead before Thy [...]
clipped from news.bbc.co.uk
The Archbishop of York has cut up his dog collar and said he will not replace it until Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe is out of office.
Dr John Sentamu made the symbolic protest gesture live on BBC One’s Andrew Marr Show.
He said Mr Mugabe had “taken people’s identity” and “cut it to pieces”, [...]
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 [...]
This morning I went to a meeting called by Heartlines, which describes itself as an outfit that uses mass media to get the nation thinking about values.
The meeting took the form of a breakfast at the Rosebank Union Church in Johannesburg and it took two hours of driving through heavy traffic to get there. [...]
I’ve just finished reading George Bizos’s autobiography, Odyssey to freedom.
Actually it’s not so much an autobiography as a record of his court cases. Apart from the first hundred pages, which deal with his boyhood in Greece, and escape from the German occupation in a leaky boat with his father and seven New Zealand soldiers, most [...]
Laaitie, in A nation of pimps, blogs about the youth of today and the youth of yesterday, the youth of yesterday being the 1976 generation, who are now urging the youth of today to imbibe the entrepreneurial spirit.
This brings all sorts of images and memories to mind, since my youth was in the day before [...]
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