Sunday, October 9, 2011

Land claim trust 'mismanaged' - Times LIVE

It's good news if previously cheated people receive justice and have wrongs are rectified. However its much worse and adding insult to injury if the boards, trusts and managers tasked with delivering the rightful goods to their rightful owners default on their services. They prolong the injustices of the past, the prevent reconciliation and healing and they impede necessary development of the affected communities. Bad governance is a plight and dreadful scourge! We pray against it in the 4th petition of the "Our Father" and we can use this as another example of Jesus Christ's parables of the bad stewards in the vineyard, harvest and management of his people. Read for yourself:

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Friday, September 23, 2011

Wachsende Ringe



Lieber Freund:

Ich glaube an das Alter...

Arbeiten und Altwerden, das ist es, was das Leben von uns erwartet.

Und dann eines Tages alt sein und noch lange nicht alles verstehen, nein,
aber anfangen,
aber lieben,
aber ahnen,
aber zusammenhaengen mit Fernem und Unsagbarem, bis in die Sterne hinein.

(Rainer Maria Rilke an Arthur Holitscher)

Thursday, September 22, 2011

Mit meinem Gott spring ich über Mauern (Jahresmotto) - Kontraste

Kritische Stimmen aus dem katholischen Lager:

Mit meinem Gott spring ich über Mauern (Jahresmotto) - Kontraste:

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Gmail - The need for Dialogue on Hate Speech - kppwweber@gmail.com

There is a continuous need to put this issue on the table and not to ignore it. Learning to vocalize the emotions and perceptions and to accept the various standpoints surrounding them.

The complication of the matter are illustrated by the comments made by Jessie Duarte.

We need a lot of good will and also lot's of patience, endurance and more hard work, but perhaps even a change of heart and something like a conversion on some parts to resent hate-speech and practice no-tolerance towards this derogatory practice.

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Re-visiting LTS

 Rev. Radikobo Ntsimane, who was teacher, pastor and rector at the LTS for more than a decade and is now a lecturer at the University of KZN and also at the Lutheran Theological Institute in Pietermaritzburg returned to LTS this week to teach  History of the Church in South Africa at LTS. Here he is both in a serious and playful mood. We are hopeful that he will return regularly to teach and preach at the LTS. 

Rev. Randy Asburry from St.Louis teaching the Lutheran Catechism and preaching during Matins at LTS.

Student of theology Simon Ishaya [Nigeria] together with Rev. Asburry [St.Louis] after Matins in St.Timothy.

Rev. Asburry from St.Louis