For the last 15 years or so, I've communicated quite a bit on newsgroups, and more so recently, because with the declne in popularity of BBSs following the introduction of Windows 95. Two newsgroups I've participated in quite a bit have been alt.religion.christian.east-orthodox and alt.religion.christian.episcopal ( Read more... )

I've been thinking a bit more about seraphim's question about five books, and thought I would add a few more. He did say "about" five.

• Cry, the beloved country, by Alan Paton
  
• The Greater Trumps, by Charles Williams
  
• War in heaven, by Charles Williams
  
• The Dharma bums, by Jack Kerouac
  
• Orthodoxy, by G.K. Chesterton
  

A few comments on these and the others:
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seraphim asks:

If you could propose a reading list of about five books to a prospective friend,
a date if you do that or whatever, so that they would know who you are...what books would you reccomend?

A lot would depend on the person, but I think mine would be:

• For the life of the world by Fr Alexander Schmemann
  
• The lion, the witch and the wardrobe by C ( Read more... )

In a comment on another entry seraphimsigrist mentioned Dr Zernov, and I was reminded that I had tried to "back post" my journal entry for the day I met him. But lj doesn't seem to accept posts that far back - perhaps it has a Y1K problem ( Read more... )

Someone posted an article on "just war" from an Orthodox point of view in the Orthodox newsgroup. The article, by Fr Stanley Harakas, describes how he had originally thought that the Orthodox view was similar to the Western vfiew of a just war, but he had gradually come to see it differently. The Orthodox Church does not in fact accept the concept ( Read more... )

Someone posted an article from the Spectator on a newsgroup I read ( Read more... )

Our daughter Bridget got back from Greece on Wednesday, having graduated after five years of studying theology at the University of Athens ( Read more... )

I spent part of the morning editing journal abstracts for Missionalia, the journal of the Southern African Missiological Society. The abstracts are written by post-graduate students in mission studies, and I check them mainly for language and comprehensibility. Occasionally I have to get the journal article and rewrite the abstract from scratch, as ( Read more... )