Entries from November 2008
There are no words for this…
November 30th, 2008 · Comments Off
If there was any doubt that consumerism is a violent and terrible influence on humans then this should qwell it:Greed is deadly.
Tags: The World
A Biblical Immigration policy?
November 28th, 2008 · Comments Off
When a stranger lives with you in your land, do not ill-treat him. The stranger living with you must be treated as one of your native-born. Love him as yourself, for you were strangers in Egypt. I am the Lord your God. Leviticus 19:33-34Although I’ve never delved into the economic and social complexities of the [...]
Tags: Christian Living · Church · The World · politics
Sync your contacts with soocial
November 27th, 2008 · Comments Off
For years my list of contact details for people has been a complete mess. Back in the day when time was plentiful I used to keep my little nokia phone neatly updated with contact details, these days contacts are spread out over gmail, blackberry, personal phone and a few other places – I have been [...]
Tags: Technology · Web 2.0
To live Justly
November 25th, 2008 · Comments Off
“Thus to say that the church must pursue societal justice is certainly right, but it is not very informative. For justice needs to displayed and imaginatively construed by a people who have been formed to know that genuine justice derived from our receiving what is not due us. Such people serve the cause of justice [...]
Tags: Christian Living · Church · Justice · Theology Thoughts
The Bleakness of Despair and the Harshness of Love
November 22nd, 2008 · 1 Comment
Tragedy Strikes, it tends to be pretty indiscriminate, and it tends to feel like it couldn’t have happened at a worse time. I was having a conversation with good friends recently who felt those things and it made me think about how I deal with turmoil and upset. Something that I have learnt and continue [...]
Tags: Christian Living
My South African Heart – A Review of the book My Traitors Heart and our time in South Africa – Part 3
November 21st, 2008 · Comments Off
An easy trap to fall into is to see an evil dominating white South Africa on the black south African victims, fortunately Rian Malan does not allow us to indulge ourselves in simplification. Through the many stories Malan tells he weaves stories in a way which gives you both perspectives, make you understand both points [...]
Tags: Justice · My Life · The World · travel
My South African Heart – A Review of the book My Traitors Heart and our time in South Africa – Part 2
November 20th, 2008 · Comments Off
This post has 3 parts, comments will be closed until the 3rd post. I was interested to see how racial integration was approached within the Christian community and asked our host who would be taking us to her Church whether blacks and whites attended the same church, she assured me immediately that blacks were very [...]
Tags: Justice · My Life · The World · travel
My South African Heart – A Review of the book My Traitors Heart and our time in South Africa – Part 1
November 19th, 2008 · Comments Off
In retrospect after reading this post it would be better to say that these posts are more of a collection of thoughts from the book ‘My Traitor’s Heart’ as I don’t make comments systematic enough to warrant the title of review. This post has 3 parts, comments will be closed until the 3rd post. As [...]
Tags: Justice · My Life · The World · travel
Reasons I unsubscribed from your blog feed – explained
November 18th, 2008 · 2 Comments
I wrote this post because I think it is useful to give some feedback now and again. I read plenty of blogs through Google reader, ( more info here on how to set that up) and although I don’t claim to have an authoritative knowledge on what makes a blog enjoyable to read, I think [...]
Tags: Blogging
Reasons I unsubscribed from your blog feed
November 17th, 2008 · Comments Off
1. Your posts are too long, and require lots of prior knowledge to understand them. In short they are inaccessible. 2. You post your feed as a summary, so if I actually want to read your post I have to click through to your site, not cool. 3. You post too often. The fact you [...]
Tags: Blogging · Technology
