A good friend of mine shared some of his ponderings with me last year, giving me permission to share his thoughts here. At the moment, one of the big internal struggles in the Dutch-Reformed church, like too many churches around the world, is wrestling with their policies on how to “balance” homosexuality, discrimination, and compassion. [...]
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Dutch-Reformed Homosexuality
January 14th, 2008 · No Comments
Categories: NG Kerk
Tags: Apartheid · Homosexuality
The Dutch-Reformed Church in South Africa
December 14th, 2007 · 4 Comments
For my international readers, I thought I’d sketch some background information on the South African religious context. I’m talking mostly from the perspective of an outsider, so I will appreciate any further contributions in the comments.
There seems to be a debate amongst evolutionary biologists between “group selection” and “standard selection”. A quick glance at the [...]
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Tags: Anglo-Boer War · Apartheid · Diversity · Fundamentalism · Politics


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