Arthur Goldstuck writes about the problems experienced by a schoolgirl whose Facebook account was hacked, and the reluctance of Facebook to deal with the problem.
However, when there is a clear violation of one user’s rights, surely the balance of rights tilts away from the perpetrator and towards the victim? If someone vandalises your car in [...]
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, [...]
In a recent comment on this blog someone said that African and European witchcraft are completely different. I’ve seen similar statements elsewhere, and they are rather misleading.
Premodern European beliefs about witchcraft and premodern African ideas about witchcraft are in many respects very similar. There were differences between one part of Europe and another, and between [...]
The recent arrest and appearance in court of three men accused of ritual killings in the Eastern Cape has highlighted the problem of so-called muti murders, one of which is that they are rarely highlighted.In another country one or two murders would be sensational. Eighteen murders in a small town within a few months [...]
Fifteen years after the end of apartheid, South Africa’s urban residential areas remain almost as segregated as before. Now the eThekwini Municipality plans to change that — by allocating housing on racial lines.
clipped from www.thetimes.co.za
Urban has launched the country’s first colour quota housing project, which aims to eradicate decades of apartheid [...]
A new twist in the muti-killing case I reported on my other blog — one of the accused is a schoolboy, and it has shocked his teachers and fellow pupils. But while there have been such cases before, this time there have been 18 murders in five months, in a village, which sets it [...]
In a comment on an earlier post of mine, on Religion, spirituality and politics, Nic Paton said “Thats an interesting distinction between the post/modern “neopagan” and the premodern “paleopagan”… Do you see a role for the paleopagan in contemporary culture / spirituality?”
I referred to the recent comments of the Minister of Health on the possibility [...]
Here’s one of the best and most intelligent discussions of the Archbishop of Canterbury’s remarks on Sharia that I’ve seen yet. Perhaps it’s the kind of discussion that he hoped for, and it least it goes beyond the simplistic media distortions: Kai euthus: Rowan Williams and Sharia — a guide to the perplexed.
He assumes that [...]
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?
clipped from www.mg.co.za
Britons are losing their grip on reality, according to a poll that came out on Monday, which showed [...]
It’s over forty years since the Americans discovered “Swinging London” and I got a nasty shock when I tried to discover what it was all about. I was living in London at the time, though in the decidedly unswinging suburb of Streatham. The shock, however, was what I discovered about American culture.
Here is what I [...]
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