Posts tagged ‘liturgy’

Khanya Blog

• Pro-life activists ostracised by anti-abortion and anti-war groups 27 May 2017
  People talk about society being “polarised”, but it’s much worse than that. “Polarised” suggests that there are only two poles, but when pro-life activists are rejected by both anti-abortion and anti-war groups, then it’s not polarisation but fragmentation. Consider these two posts (and apologies for citing Patheos, but that’s where I found them). In the […] […]
• A blue afternoon (book review) 20 May 2017
  Blue Afternoon by William Boyd My rating: 4 of 5 stars A good read with some odd flaws, and I learnt quite a lot that I didn’t know before. Kay Fischer, a Los Angeles architect, is accosted by a man who claims to be her father. When things go wrong in her architecture practice she […]
• Unburdening the Captors 19 May 2017
  Yesterday the South African Council of Churches (SACC) held a press conference to release the report of its “Unburdening Panel”. Unburdening, Uncapturing: SACC and SACP take leadership while ANC dithers | Daily Maverick: ,,,for the first time since the height of apartheid, the church is intervening to take on “a government that has lost its […]
• The Chapel of the Thorn 11 May 2017
  The Chapel of the Thorn: A Dramatic Poem by Charles Williams My rating: 5 of 5 stars An early play by Charles Williams, long thought to have been lost, and edited and prepared for publication by Sørina Higgins, who has also written a comprehensive introduction. There is also a preface by Grevel Lundop who has […]
• What is an Evangelical? 5 May 2017
  What is an Evangelical? This is a question that has bothered me for a long time, but especially since 1999 when an outfit called The Ontario Center for Religious Tolerance assiduously and very intolerantly tried to propagate scare stories that “Evangelicals”, disappointed that the world had not ended in the year 2000, would set off […]