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Food packages
During these Corona-days, the need of so many people worldwide is obvious. I assume you do what you can to help alleviate some of the distress of people. In our small way, we are helping families in Cairo, both Coptic…
Medical help for Sudanese people in Cairo
I was tempted to write: ‘for Sudanese refugees in Cairo’. But why define human beings as refugees? The Sudanese people I meet in Cairo are human beings in the first place, Christians, Muslims, men, women, fathers, mothers, husband, wives, children.…
Why we need Icons in our Church
In this article I argue that the usage of icons is important and beneficial for the Church. We will listen to the arguments John of Damascus (ca. 675-749), the main theological defender of the usage of icons in the Church…
Heavenly Participation
A great book I warmly recommend: Heavenly Participation, by Hans Boersma. I am reading it for a second time now – just to make sure I suggest what Boersma has to say.
“Postmodernity is little more than modernity coming home to roost. Both, I believe, are predicated on the abandonment of a premodern sacramental mindset in which the realities of this-worldly existence pointed to greater, eternal realities in which they sacramentally shared. Once modernity abandoned a participatory or sacramental view of reality, the created order became unmoored from its origin in God, and the material cosmos began its precarious drift on the flux of nihilistic waves.” Hans Boersema, Heavenly Participation: the weaving of a sacramental tapestry (Grand Rapids, 2011), p. 2.
Boersma proposes a rather radical realignment of theology – a realignment with how the church from the first till the 17th century ‘did’ theology. I love it.
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15 Commonly Used English Words related to Mythologies
The term Avatar originally stems from the Hindu concept of a deliberate descent of a deity or god to Earth. In simpler terms, it is roughly synonymous to ‘incarnation’ in English; but a more literal translation would pertain to ‘manifestation’…
Ostia Antica: The Harbor City of Ancient Rome
Ostia Antica (derived from os, the Latin for “mouth”) was the preeminent harbor city of ancient Rome, with its geographical location being around 19 miles from the ‘eternal city’. And while in modern circumstances, the site lies around 2 miles…
Reconstruction Of Constantinople: From 4th To 13th Century AD
Historically, Constantinople was the largest and wealthiest city in Europe from the 5th to early 13th century AD. To that end, it was Emperor Constantine who truly elevated the architectural ambit of the original settlement, by ‘re-founding’ it as Nova…
Agenda
Saturday 16 May
8.30-10.30 write lesson 3 for Life of Moses, Gregory of Nyssa
Saturday 16 May
10.30-12.30 fundraise for BA Studies course
Saturday 16 May
3-3.45pm Coffee and tea with church in Arnhem-Nijmegen (Zoom)
Sunday 17 May
9-11am Administration of Stichting Nijlvallei
Sunday 17 May
12-3pm Fundraise for Food Packages for Egypt
Monday 18 May
9-10am Work discussions with my office in Egypt
Monday 18 May
10-12am Fundraise for BA studies in Egypt
Monday 18 May
1-5pm Planning activities for May, June
Wednesday 20 May
9-12am write lesson 4 and 5 on Life of Moses, Gregory of Nyssa
Wednesday 20 May
7-8pm Zoominar about Ignatius
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Desert Prayers
In the week of 20-25 October we prayed the Coptic Agpeya (also known as the Horologion) in Anafora. This Coptic Orthodox Retreat Centre in Egypt is based in what used to be part of the desert, west of the Delta. Bishop Thomas has almost singlehandedly transformed the place into a green oasis of I do not know how many acres. The Agpeya is a cycle of seven daily prayers that have been prayed since the early times of Christianity. They…
