Stephen Hayes

USA's Six Outrageous South Africa Demands: Lying, Threats, Hypocrisy // ...
https://youtu.be/uBm6lQ2l5wg?si=yO_LYUVVo3S_0l0B via @YouTube
#USA #RSA

The "Cultural Protestant" Origin of Multiculturalism
https://ondermynende.wordpress.com/2006/10/19/the-cultural-protestant-origin-of-multiculturalism/
#multiculturalism #monoculturalism #apartheid

US ambassador apologises for ‘undiplomatic’ remarks about SA

https://www.citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/politics/us-ambassador-called-in-to-explain-undiplomatic-remarks-and-apologises/

#USA #RSA #diplomacy

from underground: Cross Purposes: A children's adventure/fantasy/historical novel
https://methodius.blogspot.com/2022/10/cross-purposes-new-novel.html
#childrensbooks #kidlit #mglit #bookstodon

#PennedPossibilities 951 — MC POV: Write about something presently in your life that is “worth it.”

Tiffany is 10, and hasn't started using L'Oreal yet. She has no wrinkles yet, that need to be removed by hyaluronic acid, which probably hadn't been invented back in 1965.

#WordWeavers 5/3: What's the most supportive/uplifting thing you’ve heard related to writing?

A detailed critique of my children's historical/fantasy/adventure novel "Of Wheels and Witches" from a blind university lecturer in literature, which included the following:

Chapter 4
 Evocative landscape descriptions, especially early in the chapter again evoke something of the Pastorale.
 Intertwining the foreboding shadow of the wheel and evil with the children’s coming to know the lot of black people in South Africa at that time, together with Apartheid police tactics and anti-Apartheid activity, is beautifully done, so that, while the reader unfamiliar with such things reads the story, he necessarily also learns much. This is a good example of my conclusion that history is best taught through the stories of the people who lived in it, whether they be fictional or no.

Chapter 5
 I certainly did not expect the chapter to develop as it does. Splendid!
 Excellent descriptions of both church services and, especially, of the children’s tea and the minister from Johannesburg’s message to Catherine. That episode is well-executed, because it does not force the plot, but flows naturally and, given the rest of the chapter, inevitably and organically inescapably. The narration of what happens to the children on their way home, Jeffery falling into the river and rescuing Catherine, Janet’s struggles to get help, as well as the conclusion in the hut, are likewise naturally executed.

Chapter 6
 Another splendid piece of storytelling and, over it all, the epoch quickened by the little details, the children’s very human experiences the prejudices and thought processes of at least some in that time represented by the contrast between Mr. Montgomery and Mrs Sanderson.

#writing #kidlit #MGlit #childrensbooks

Am I the only one in the entire Fediverse who uses the hashtag #missiology ?

If so, does this mean that missiology as an academic discipline is dying?

Something I wrote a while back. Now that the first quarter of the 21st century has passed, it might be time to look back and take stock: Orthodox mission in the 21st century
https://ondermynende.wordpress.com/2007/04/27/orthodox-mission-in-the-21st-century-2/
#mission #missiology #Orthodox #Christianity

Morning Prayer of the Last Elders of Optina
https://khanya.wordpress.com/2015/05/30/morning-prayer-of-the-last-elders-of-optina/
#Orthodox #prayer

The Big Lie About Iran’s Support for Terrorism
https://sonar21.com/the-big-lie-about-irans-support-for-terrorism/
#Iran #terrorism