Archive for November, 2009

Khanya Blog

• Reader’s Guide | The Oddest Inkling 14 November 2018
  Perhaps you have never read the works of Charles Williams, but you want to give him a try. Where should you start? That depends upon your reading taste. Do you prefer novels, plays, theology, poetr… Source: Reader’s Guide | The Oddest Inkling A very good guide to the works of Charles Williams  
• The Year of the Dragon 1 November 2018
  My son Simon Hayes has just finished the artwork for the cover of my book The Year of the Dragon, which I am preparing for publication, and hope to make available as an e-book before Christmas. In the story Richard Rutherford, a Pietermaritzburg lawyer, is asked to wind up the estate of a woman who […]
• Halloween and cultural appropriation 30 October 2018
  Someone asked this question on the Quora web site: How have Halloween celebrations changed in your country or region in the last 50 years? And my answer was that 50 years ago they were only done by American expatriates. Now I have heard that some locals are following the American customs, but I haven’t seen […]
• Orthodox schism and the clash of civilizations 16 October 2018
  Events of the last month or so suggest that there is a real danger of a schism in the Orthodox Church that might affect Orthodox Christians throughout the world. It began in Ukraine. As my church journalist friend Sergei Chapnin writes Ukraine Is Dangerously Close to a Religious War – Bloomberg: For several centuries, since […]
• Country of my skull 13 October 2018
  I’m reading this 20 years after the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa submitted its report to the president, so it’s a bit late. Several people have mentioned this book to me, and I’ve been told it is the definitive book on the TRC, so when I saw it in the library I thought […]