Archive for November, 2009

Khanya Blog

• Stephen King is 70 21 September 2017
  Stephen King was born on 21 September 1947, and has been writing for about 60 years. I certainly haven’t read everything he wrote, but his 70th birthday seems a good time to reflect on some of his writing that I have read. Two things that strike me about his writing is the variety of genres […]
• DON’T LOOK FOR SPACE ALIENS IN CRUCIFIXION ICONS 20 September 2017
  Originally posted on ICONS AND THEIR INTERPRETATION: It is almost too ridiculous to mention, but some Internet sites actually use this image, from the Serbian Vysoki Decani Monastery, as “proof” of early visitations by aliens from space.  They tell the gullible that the two odd figures at far upper left and right are “flying saucers”…
• Reflections of Graham Greene 16 September 2017
  The Reflections: 1923-1988 by Graham Greene My rating: 5 of 5 stars There are three 20th-century authors that I have thought peculiarly Christian. They are G.K. Chesterton, Evelyn Waugh, and Graham Greene. There are several others that I consider ordinarily Christian, like Dorothy Sayers, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, J.R.R. Tolkien and a few more. But […]
• Literary Coffee Klatsch: the Quaker factor 7 September 2017
  We’ve been meeting for our monthly literary coffee klatsch for more than a year now, having quite wide-ranging discussions on Christianity and literature. We have discussed a variety of authors and works, with quite deep discussions on G.K. Chesteron (first Anglican, then Roman Catholic), and several others, but Quakers haven’t figured much in our discussion […]
• Beyond the rubbish 2 September 2017
  Yesterday morning at TGIF we had a strange discussion on the future South Africa we would like to see. Most of those present were white Christians. I don’t know how representative the group was of white Christians in South Africa as a whole but the response of this group was rather discouraging. The mandate for […]