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Transformation behind the scenes
Yesterday I went to an informal gathering of people involved in mission, and one of the things being discussed was a community development project near Atteridgeville, west of Pretoria. Father...
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Private enterprise socialism
A few years ago I blogged about building societies and a comment from Ryan Peter has reminded me that there probably isn’t anyone under 30 in South Africa who knows what building societies are (or...
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Hair of the dog that bit you
“The bankers caused the disease: let them take the medicine.” So read an English poster held up by one of the demonstrators in recent Greek protests over the austerity measures that the bankers’...
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Why right-wing nuts hate Norway
New Statesman – But in Norway, the state is still grandpa: Is Norway Europe’s last surviving socialist country? Almost half of Norway’s GDP is produced by the public sector, the highest proportion in...
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Race, class and history
Back in the 1970s there was a school of Marxist historians who attacked the “liberal” school that had flourished 30-40 years earlier. According to the “liberal” school, the biggest problem in South...
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Missiologists and economists
I’ve spent the last three days at the annual congress of the Southern African Missiological Society, and one of the things that struck me was how many of the speakers said, “I’m not an economist, but…”...
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Capitalist ecclesiology – is its victory complete in the West?
The consumerist approach to religion seems to have stormed one of the last strongholds. For a while now the GetReligion website has been a kind of watchdog on media religion reporting, at least in the...
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The Archbishop, loansharks, and the media
For the last 20 years or more the Anglican Churches have mainly been in the news because of sex. If it’s not the sex of its bishops, it’s the sex of one’s spouse. But this week, thanks to the new...
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Societal norms and Christian values
A recent decision of the US Supreme Court that same-sex marriage was a constitutional right has caused a flurry of activity in social media, with many jubilantly proclaiming it as a notable victory for...
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The cult of Capitalism
I passed on one of those illustrated epigrams one finds on Facebook (Warning: Graphic content) as one sometimes does, with the following comment. And then I thought that perhaps that there was more...
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