Archive for May, 2012

Khanya Blog

• The new martyrs of Libya 24 February 2015
  The first ikons of the 21 new martyrs of Libya have already begun to appear on social media sites on the internet. Here is one posted by Rijo Geevarghese on Facebook. Rijo Geevarghese also notes ISIS announced the execution of 21 Copts but only 20 names were confirmed, most of them were from the province […]
• The Expulsion of Eve and Adam from Paradise 22 February 2015
  Originally posted on Fr. Ted's Blog:The Sunday before we enter into Great Lent has the theme of the expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise.   Early church writers imagined that Paradise was a temple which God had built so that we could worship Him.  God’s expelling Eve and Adam from the Edenic temple…
• Un-kudos to the City of Tshwane 18 February 2015
  Advice to the city fathers (and mothers) of the Great City of Tshwane: when you send out notices to people saying that their light and water accounts must be paid by a certain date, then cut off their electricity three days after the due date, not three days before. This is not rocket science, it […]
• The new crusaders of the West 10 February 2015
  In the last few days lots of people seem to have been posting links to articles about the Crusades on Facebook. The first one I saw was The Real History of the Crusades | Christianity Today: within days of the September 11 attacks, the Middle Ages suddenly became relevant. As a Crusade historian, I found […]
• Andre Brink: A dry white season 7 February 2015
  A Dry White Season by André Brink My rating: 5 of 5 stars I read this book 34 years ago, but with the death of Andre Brink it’s perhaps time to write a review of it. I will, however, have to write it from memory, because I lent my copy of the book to someone […]