Author Archives: D. Scarborough
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P O Box 832, Â MILNERTON Â 7435, RSA TEL/FAX Â (021) 510-6854 Email: dscarborough@ telkomsa.net July/August/September 2014 Dear Friends, In early September 2014 an atheist group calling itself Organisasie vir Godsdienste-Onderrig en Demokrasie (OGOD) initiated a high court action against five South African schools which observe the Christian world view. The national constitution, they say, is…
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P O Box 832,  MILNERTON  7435, RSA TEL/FAX  (021) 510-6854 Email: dscarborough@ telkomsa.net October/November/December 2013 Dear Friends, On 19 September 2013 Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian  Federation, made a memorable speech about  the present  cultural decline of the West which, for two millennia, had been the stronghold of Christianity and  had been called…
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P 0 Box 587, SEA POINT, 8060 RSA TEL/FAX (021) 510–6854 Email: dscarborough@telkomsa.net July/August/September 2013 Dear Friends, Since 8 June, Old President Nelson Mandela has been in hospital, where he is being treated for a recurring lung infection. The sympathy of the whole country is with him, and the hospital has become a place of…
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P O Box 587, SEA POINT, 8060 RSA TEL/FAX (021) 510-6854 Email:  dscarborough@telkomsa.net April/May/June 2013 Dear Friends, From 30 October to 8 November,  2013, the World Council of Churches  will hold its 10111  General Assembly in Busan, Korea.  The theme of the Conference  is  “God of Life, Lead us to Justice and Peace. ”  For this…
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Dear Friends, In almost all parts of the world, Christians now live in religiously plural societies. This presents challenges not only to individuals but also to State and Church. The Church, for instance, has been looking for new ways of understanding and interpreting ‘community.’ – Prof Hans Küng, a German Catholic liberation theologian, has described…