Posts tagged ‘OBE’

Khanya Blog

• Winter in Madrid: a spy novel 13 June 2013
  While I have posted the core of this review on Good Reads, I’m expanding it a bit here, because it gave me a lot to think about. It is a spy novel, but not the usual spy novel. There was a glut of spy novels during the Cold War, from about 1960-1990, so that one […]
• Who isn’t missional? 6 June 2013
  Fifty years ago people were saying things like “The church is missionary by its very nature”. Now they are saying things like “The church is missional by its very nature”, as if they are saying something new. Is this anything more than playing word games? I hadn’t thought about this for a while, but it […]
• Civil Rights leader, preacher Will Campbell dead at 88 4 June 2013
  I was rather saddened to see this news item, posted by a distant cousin on Twitter, Civil Rights leader, preacher Will Campbell dead at 88. Who was Will Campbell, and why should anyone in South Africa have heard of him? I first learnt of Will Campbell when I got sick in Cape Town, and was […]
• Ovamboland, Namibia 17-20 May 2013, with flashbacks to the 1970s 26 May 2013
  After leaving the Etosha National Park though the King Nehano Gate, and having driving licences and car papers checked by the police, the flat grassland continued beyond the park, but the herds of grazing animals on the other side were cattle, of which there were many, but there was no sign of human habitation. After […]
• Sunday in Windhoek: Quaker meeting and walking the dogs 12 May 2013
  Sunday 12 May 2013 – Thomas Sunday At 6:30 we went for a walk round the Avis Dam with Enid and Justin Ellis; they take their dogs for a walk there every Sunday morning with their friend Helen Vale, a retired English lecturer from the University of Namibia. After breeakfast we went to Helen’s house […]