Archive for May, 2012

Khanya Blog

• An Image of the Person 11 February 2014
  Originally posted on lessons from a monastery:(Excerpt from Paul Evdokimov’s The Art of the Icon: A Theology of Beauty, pp. 208-209). “Christ is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation” (Col 1:15). Now even the first defenders of the icon separated, rather simplistically, the two natures and put the visible…
• St Benedict’s House, Rosettenville past and present 8 February 2014
  Yesterday I went with Fr Elias (Palmos) to visit St Benedict’s House in Rosettenville, Johannesburg. St Benedict’s is an Anglican retreat house, and I was reminded of it by meeting Kathy Barrable last month, on a radio programme in which we both participated. She is the director of both St Benedict’s House and St Peter’s […]
• Misguided Western criticism of Russia’s anti-gay laws 7 February 2014
  In the last few weeks I’ve been bombarded by propaganda, in social media and elsewhere, urging protests and boycotts of the Winter Olympic Games being held in Russia this year because of their anti-gay laws. Much of the criticism has been so hyped and over-the-top that I simply have not believed it and not passed […]
• Tales from Dystopia XVI: The SB 1 February 2014
  No tales of the apartheid era in South Africa would be complete without the SB, also known as the Special Branch, the Veiligheidstak, the Security Police etc. They were what in German was called the Geheime Staatspolitzei — the Gestapo. They were probably around even before apartheid, and perhaps were chasing suspected German spies in […]
• Healing ministry book may get some readers 22 January 2014
  Two years ago we published a book on African initiatives in healing ministry. Well, it was published by Unisa Press, but Lilian Dube, Tabona Shoko and I wrote it. But it seems that though Unisa Press sent out several review copies, few or no reviews were published, so hardly anyone knew that the book existed. […]