When Christians and those of no faith talk about Christmas, they sometimes mean the same thing, and at other times refer to completely separate events.
Archive | December, 2011
PE clergy remembered
JUST REMEMBERING, by Fr WH Barnes. Self-published, Port Elizabeth. 2011. 130pp. R50 Review by Michael Shackleton
Living life, day by day
Advent has sprung upon us. From now on for a whole year I am promoting the idea of “Day by Day with God and Family”. So please allow me a little deeper promotion of the idea and the resource material to go with it.
Don’t lose sight of the starfish
There is a story about a little boy who was on the beach with his dad. They were building sandcastles, playing games, collecting shells and having fun on the beach when all of a sudden they spotted something—a huge, bright red starfish floating in the water just near the shore.
What Vatican II tells us about Aids
Recently some epidemiologists (scholars who track the origins and growth of diseases) have suggested that the first possible recorded case of someone dying from Acquired Immunity Deficiency Syndrome (Aids) dates back to 1959 in what was then the Belgian Congo.
Become web missionaries now
From Monica Rohlwink, Cape Town The hurt, hate, fear, frustration, bitterness, racism, anxiety, provocation and unbridled insults expressed on some news websites on the Internet are enough to make one want to give up on the future of this country and its “rainbow nation”.
Pilgrimage 2013
The Digital Southern Cross
