February 2008

After Edmund – Hello

CD REVIEW After Edmund’s debut album positions this Georgia-based group into the Christian alt.rock genre occupied by the likes of Switchfoot. Unlike Switchfoot, After Edmund (named after...

Pledging loyalty

The idea of invigorating young South Africans with high standards of personal and social integrity must be welcomed. The government is mistaken in believing, however, that its...

Mastering One’s Self

Archbishop Buti Tlhagale of Johannesburg, in his chairman’s address to the Southern African bishops at their January plenary session, summed up in a single phrase the content...

Piddling in Tuscany

Having always enjoyed all those wonderful stories of Catholicism in France from the erudite pen of Owen Williams and of course Gunther Simmermacher’s series on his travels...

Mystic Street

MYSTIC STREET: Meditations on a Spiritual Path, by ST Georgiou. Novalis , Canada , 2007. 305pp (with illustrations). Reviewed by Michael Shackleton The author’s first book was...

Team of Elders – Bishop Fritz Lobinger

TEAMS OF ELDERS: Moving Beyond Viri Probati, by Bishop Fritz Lobinger. Claretian Publications, 2007. 94pp. Reviewed by Michael Shackleton Fritz Lobinger, the retired bishop of Aliwal North...