‘Life is difficult!” These are the opening words of M Scott Peck’s best-seller The Road Less Travelled. Scott Peck continues to say that this is a great truth.
Archive | July, 2011
We are called to be evangelisers
John Lee, Johannesburg Many thanks for Archbishop William Slattery’s article, “At Pentecost we are called to witness” (June 8). The article was read out in full at Mass in our parish on Pentecost Sunday.
The party as the state
Something remarkable happened in South Africa in May. Only days before the municipal elections on May 18, communities in Ficksburg, Free State, were protesting fiercely against the poverty of service delivery by their local municipality—but when their opportunity came to eject from office those against whom they were demonstrating, they re-elected them.
Was the Last Supper on Wednesday?
British scientist Colin Humphreys recently proposed from an ancient Jewish calendar that the Last Supper took place on the Wednesday of Holy Week, a day earlier than the traditional Maundy Thursday, and that the date of Easter can now be fixed. Please comment and explain. Neville Gallichan
Hopes and fears for George
A few weeks ago I was privileged to attend a breakfast function at St Peter and St Paul’s church in George, in the very heart of the famed Garden Route.
Making excuses for evil
At the risk of sounding pessimistic, I must admit that South African political elections depress me. With every election that passes I get more convinced that South Africans are becoming increasingly alienated from each other, especially along race and ethnic lines.
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The Digital Southern Cross
