Archive for November, 2009

Khanya Blog

• Love the sinner, hate the sin 27 July 2017
  I was once chatting with a couple of friends, two of us were Christians, and the third was a catechumen, exploring the Christian faith for the first time, and she had lots of questions. She had been told that Christians should give thanks to God for everything and in all circumstances, and that puzzled her. […]
• Shadows of Shadows of Ecstasy: An Irresponsible Suggestion about Charles Williams’ First Novel | A Pilgrim in Narnia 25 July 2017
  Brenton Dickieson’s first reading of Shadows of ecstasy has produced an interesting reaction: I have not yet read most of Grevel Lindop’s definitive biography of Williams, or Sørina Higgins’ work on Shadows of Ecstasy at the Oddest Inkling. So it is absolutely irresponsible of me to give the conjecture that I’m about to offer. Still, […]
• Sophie’s World 24 July 2017
  Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder My rating: 3 of 5 stars I first read this book 20 years ago, and just finished re-reading it. As I’m sure most people know, it is a compact history of Western philosophy in the guise of a novel. I’d forgotten much of the plot of the fictional part, and […]
• Witchcraft in literature and life (coffee klatsch) 7 July 2017
  At our literary coffee klatsch this morning we discussed witchcraft in literature and life, but we didn’t nearly exhaust the subject, so we decided to to continue the discussion next time. The reason for discussing it was that Duncan Reyburn had published a contribution in a book on witchcraft and demonology, but the book cost […]
• A Review of “The Chapel of the Thorn” by Charles Williams | A Pilgrim in Narnia 5 July 2017
  A review of The Chapel of the Thorn by Brenton Dickieson An Unpublished Poem by Charles Williams. Charles Williams wrote The Chapel of the Thorn in 1912, though it was never published. Once thought lost, this Williams’ play has finally been brought to print by Inklings scholar Sørina Higgins. I had the opportunity of seeing […]