Posts tagged ‘liturgy’

Khanya Blog

• 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 […]
• Sue’s Book Reviews: Of Wheels and Witches (by Stephen Hayes) 27 August 2017
  Here’s a quote from Sue F’s review of my children’s book Of Wheels and Witches. The latter part of the book is fast-paced and more violent than I’m comfortable with. This is not an escapist unrealistic adventure story of the Enid Blyton variety. It’s all too real, even gory in places, and as such I […]
• Gaps in Scholarship on C.S. Lewis and other Wade Authors 15 August 2017
  A few weeks ago I read a commentary on C.S. Lewis’s children’s novel Prince Caspian, which I found very helpful. You can see my review here. Now the librarian of the Marion Wade Center in Wheation, Illinois, USA, which has a large collection of material on C.S. Lewis and related authors, is appealing for people […]