Archive for May, 2012

Khanya Blog

• 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 […]
• At play in the fields of the Lord 4 October 2018
  Back in 1992 a colleague in the faculty of theology at Unisa, Mark Hestenes, recommended that I go and see a film At play in the fields of the Lord. I was then teaching in the missiology department, and he said it made some interesting missiological points. It was set in South America, and another […]
• The Lacuna 1 October 2018
  The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver My rating: 4 of 5 stars A historical novel; a long read but a good one. This is Barbara Kingsolver‘s attempt at an epistolary novel, or at least one made up of the letters and diaries of the protagonist, Harrison William Shepherd, who was born in the USA in 1916 […]
• 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 […]