Tales from Dystopia is a series of blog posts I am writing of memories of the apartheid era in South Africa.


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Now I know that "whiteness studies" is bourgeois, capitalist and racist.

A number of young white South African Christians, who used to be interested in the "emerging church", have recently become abosorbed in "whiteness studies", a pseudo-academic discipline that seems just as racist as the "Christian Nationalism" it claims to be trying to counter. ( Read more... )

There's a new synchroblog this month on Christianity and creativity, with the usual variety of posts from different points of view.

• Bethany Stedman - How God Creates
• EmmaNadine - Creativity and Christianity
• Bill Sahlman - Created, Continued Creativity
• Heidi Renee - Synchroblog Creativity and Christianity
• Annie Bullock - Old Things are New

This months synchroblog (synchronised blog) is on the theme of "Faitn and ethnicity".

Normally if I think the theme will be of interest to some of my LJ friends I post a list of links to the posts, but this time I've jumped the gun, and the full list is not available yet.

The reason for jumping the gun is that I think some of my LJ friends, ( Read more... )

Several people have asked where they can read the paper I read at the conference of the Association for the Study of Religion in Southern Africa (ASRSA) held in Durban last week.

The paper was on "Christian understandings of paganism and witchcraft" and was one of three papers on the general theme of paganism and witchcraft. The other papers on that ( Read more... )

Twentyfour bloggers are blogging on the general theme of Christian responses to Halloween in this month's Synchroblog. You can thus get a variety of points of view on the topic.

Here's the list:

• The Christians and the Pagans Meet for Samhain at Phil Wyman's Square No More
  
• Our Own Private Zombie: Death and the Spirit of Fear by Lainie Petersen
  
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Every month a group of Christian bloggers post a "synchroblog" on the same topic. This month's topic is Christianity and neopaganism, and my contribution is on Christianity, paganism and literature, looking at the way in which Christians and neopagans respond to the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Alan Garner and Charles Williams ( Read more... )

This month's synchroblog is on the theme of "Christianity: inclusive or exclusive". A synchroblog is when several bloggers write on the same general theme on the same day. As each one interprets the theme differently, there is quite a variety of thoughts and sentiments expressed.

Here they are:

• Steve Hayes at Notes from undergroundis blogging ( Read more... )

A group of Christian bloggers try to synchronise their posting and post on the same topic on the same day. This month's synchroblog is on Altered states of consciousness, and you can find my contribution on my other blog at Notes from underground: Consciousness of absurdity and the absurdity of consciousnessOn the same page you will also find links ( Read more... )

I was transcribing some of my old journals this morning, and came across what I had written when I was 19 in response to reading about Leon Bloy. When I got home I finished reading Leon Bloy and marvelled at his faith and devotion. He had been prepared to live nearly all his life in poverty -- nay, in destitution -- for the sake of Jesus ( Read more... )