seraphimsigrist recently posted a poll on spiritual heartlands,showing pictures of Radonezh in Russia which is more or less the home of Russian monasticism, and asked readers to think of similar places in their own countries.

In trying to think of such places in South Africa, one that came to mind was Marishane, the site of the martyrdom of Manche Masemola, which ( Read more... )

This entry really belongs to last May, when we were on holiday in England and visited ancestral homes in the south-west of England. My father's father's family had come from Somerset and Devon, and my mother's father's family had come from Cornwall, and we spent five days in May visiting some of the places they had lived, and meeting living ( Read more... )