As usual we went to church in Mamelodi this morning, for the Hours and Readers Service (Obednitsa), and sang "Many Years" to old Mary Nthite, whose name day it was yesterday. The sun was shining brightly after the wet and cloudy weather of the..
Topics: Mamelodi, photos, Pretoria, Tshwane, weather

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I went down to the post office today, to collect a parcel someone had sent me. It took a while to open it, as they were busy mopping the floor. There had been a flood, with all the rain we've had lately. They are also busy renovating the exterior. It.
Topics: Church Square, historic buildings, Post office renovations, Pretoria

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Notes from a Common-place Book: "Jesus loved money too!" : Hanna Rosin looks for connections between the recent housing crisis and the 'prosperity gospel' in Did Christianity Cause the Crash? The short answer to her question is, of...
Topics: church and money, Community of the Resurrection, CR, holy poverty, name it and claim it, prosperity gospel

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Grammar-cop alert. This is a soldier: This is a troop: Got it? Good. Hat-tip to A conservative blog for peace . Actually it's a little bit more complex than that. Troops are usually mounted, and a member of a troop is usually called a...
Topics: language, milspeak, soldier, soldiers, terminology, troop, trooper, troops, usage

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Of all the activities to commemorate the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago, this one seems the most appropriate. Palestinians tear down chunk of wall - Yahoo! News : RAMALLAH, West Bank (AFP) – Palestinians tore down a chunk of Israel's West...
Topics: apartheid wall, Israel, Palestine

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