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Emerging church and Orthodoxy
I am sometimes asked by fellow-Orthodox Christians why I am interested in the Emerging Church movement, which is a movement within Western Protestantism, and seems at first sight to have little to do...
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Orthodox emerging missional dialogue
Last Saturday St Nicholas Orthodox Church in Brixton, Johannesburg had a visitors night, and visitors at Vespers outnumbered the regular members of the congregation. Most of the visitors were involved...
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BlogCatalog group for Orthodox Christian bloggers
I recently started a BlogCatalog group for Orthodox Christian bloggers, because I looked for one and there wasn’t one. BlogCatalog is one of a number of social blogrolling sites on the Web, like...
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Atteridgeville teaching week continued
Our teaching week at Atteridgeville continued. I wasn’t able to blog about it on Tuesday to Friday because our phones were dead. On the second day we had 25 adults and teenagers, and about as many...
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Ecumenism, anti-ecumenism and mission
The visit of the Pope of Rome to Cyprus is apparently a hot issue. Hat-tip to Ad Orientem for this piece: For some, the past is never another Country | OBL Articles: IF NOTHING else, the small, but...
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Lectionary confusion
Yesterday I was greatly confused over the Sunday Gospel reading. According to the OCA web site: 27th SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST — Tone 2 (10th of Luke). Monk Martyr and Confessor Stephen the New of Mt. St....
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Renewal in the Orthodox Churches: the diaspora
It is quite unusual for Western theological or missiological journals to publish anything written by Orthodox theologians and missiologists, or about Orthodox Christianity. But Studies in World...
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The Way in Gauteng
We are hoping to run The Way, a course on the Orthodox Christian Faith, in Gauteng, possibly starting in September or October 2012. The Way is a twelve-session course that aims to present the Orthodox...
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Jesus is a looser!
It is clear from what one reads on the Internet, on blogs, newsgroups, mailing lists and other forums, that many people despise loosers, and many seem to use “looser” as an insult. Jesus is a looser!...
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A taste of their own medicine?
A group of Orthodox protesters attempted to give Pussy Riot supporters a taste of their own medicine: Pro-Church Activists Interrupt Pussy Riot Event | News | The Moscow Times: A group of Orthodox...
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