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 [...]
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. [...]
The conference of the Association for the Study of Religion in Southern Africa is over, and I’m in Pietermarvista, which seems to do strange things to the textitzburg, writing this from a friends house, on a strange computer with a strange keyboard and Windows
I was saying that Windows Vista and the strange keyboard seems to [...]
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. [...]
This is a follow-up post to the synchroblog on “Emerging heresy”. After reading the other posts I realised that words like “heresy” and “cult” aren’t the only ones that cause misunderstandings. When it comes to “orthodoxy” we are not only not on the same page, we’re not in the same book, and perhaps not even [...]
“Cult” is one of the most frequently misused words in English. I get tired of hearing people say that this or that religious group is a “cult”. Used in that way, the word “cult” is almost meaningless. All it means is that the speaker disagrees with the beliefs or dislikes the activities of the [...]
Nicked from the alt.religion.christian.east-orthodox newsgroup
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I thought the following story might be enjoyed by many on this list in light of recent conversations on this list about repeating things in church services. It was told to me by an OCA priest, who had heard it from a hierarch.
In Warsaw, in the 1950s, when Communism was strong, [...]
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