Archive for November, 2009

Khanya Blog

• Apartheid: a History 21 September 2018
  Apartheid: A History by Brian Lapping My rating: 4 of 5 stars Why should I read a book by a foreign journalist on the history of apartheid? I lived through apartheid, from beginning to end. I have an honours degree in history. So why read a popular, non-scholarly book about it? The main reason was […]
• A busy weekend 16 September 2018
  We’ve had a busy few days. First we went to the Divine Liturgy for the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross at St Nicholas Church in Brixton, Johannesburg. That was at 5:50 am on Friday 14th September. We normally leave home at about 6:00 am to go to TGIF, but getting to Johannesburg […]
• Theocracy, anyone? 29 August 2018
  Someone pointed me to an interesting article on theocracy recently Of Course Christians Are Theocrats | Peter J. Leithart | First Things: In the final analysis, “human affairs” and “things divine” won’t stay put in their neutral corners. This is why I prefer Stanley Hauerwas’s straightforward confession: “I often enjoy making liberal friends, particularly Am […]
• Theophania and the church in her house 26 August 2018
  Today we went, as we do on alternate Sundays, to Mamelodi East where we join Theophania and the church in her house for the Hours and Readers Service. We used to meet in a school classroom, until they put the rent up, and then we began meeting in the houses of members, usually the oldest […]
• Islands, missiology and literature 23 August 2018
  Old saints on millstones float with cats To islands out at sea Whereon no female pelvis can threaten their agape. So wrote W.H. Auden in a poem called to mind by re-reading The Coral Island by R.M. Ballantyne My rating: 3 of 5 stars I think I read this some time in my childhood, but […]