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Politics, society, culture, theology and literature in South Africa and the world, from an Orthodox Christian point of view.

Added on: Jun 3rd, 2008
Country: South Africa
Language: English

Author: Steve Hayes
Listed in: Culture Christianity
Tags: south africa history orthodoxy liberalism counterculture inklings

Recent Posts

After the rain

Posted on Sunday November 22nd, 2009 at 04:49 in photos, weather, pretoria, tshwane, mamelodi

As usual we went to church in Mamelodi this morning, for the Hours and Readers Service (Obednitsa), and sang "Many Years" to old Mary Nthite, whose name day it was yesterday.The sun was shining brightly after the wet and cloudy weather of the last fe...
Rain and renovations

Posted on Saturday November 21st, 2009 at 07:12 in historic buildings, pretoria, church square, post office renovations

I went down to the post office today, to collect a parcel someone had sent me. It took a while to open it, as they were busy mopping the floor. There had been a flood, with all the rain we've had lately.They are also busy renovating the exterior. It ...
Jesus loves money

Posted on Tuesday November 17th, 2009 at 01:59 in cr, prosperity gospel, name it and claim it, church and money, community of the resurrection, holy poverty

Notes from a Common-place Book: "Jesus loved money too!": Hanna Rosin looks for connections between the recent housing crisis and the 'prosperity gospel' in Did Christianity Cause the Crash? The short answer to her question is, of course, 'No, Christ...
Pedant\'s corner: soldiers and troops

Posted on Wednesday November 11th, 2009 at 23:09 in language, soldier, troops, Soldiers, troop, terminology, usage, trooper, milspeak

Grammar-cop alert.This is a soldier:This is a troop:Got it? Good.Hat-tip to A conservative blog for peace.Actually it's a little bit more complex than that.Troops are usually mounted, and a member of a troop is usually called a "trooper", which is eq...
Commemorating the fall of the Berlin Wall

Posted on Wednesday November 11th, 2009 at 00:00 in Israel, palestine, berlin wall, apartheid wall

Of all the activities to commemorate the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago, this one seems the most appropriate.Palestinians tear down chunk of wall - Yahoo! News:RAMALLAH, West Bank (AFP) – Palestinians tore down a chunk of Israel's West Bank s...
Blogging blind

Posted on Tuesday November 10th, 2009 at 00:16 in blogging, south africa, blogosphere, technorati, metablog, amatomu, mail and guardian

With the death of Amatomu and Technorati, I feel a great lack in the blogosphere.Both seem to have died from the same cause -- someone decided to tinker with them to make "improvements", and broke whatever was working before. There's a lot of truth i...