Steve Hayes - Links and contact information

This page has contact information and web page links for Steve Hayes of Tshwane, South Africa. You probably reached it through a link in a signature on an e-mail message or newsgroup article.

I maintain various web sites and pages on different topics, mainly because I would like to make contact and exchange ideas with others who are interested in the same or similar topics. So I hope to find people who have similar interests and concerns to mine. This page is a kind of map of the pages, interests and concerns, so you can find your way around.

If you want to report a problem with a web page, or a technical point, you may contact me by E-mail:

Unfortunately the former host of these web pages, Bravenet, seems to be collapsing, and has marked them as "expired", with the result that many links are broken. I have moved them to a new site, but it will take time to edit all the links, and in any case external links to the Bravenet site will still be broken.

For this reason I'm not putting much that is new on this site, but am rather using my blogs Khanya and Notes from underground

If you want to discuss the content of the web pages, or articles I have written, I would much prefer to do it in open discussion forums rather than by personal e-mail. See the list of discussion forums

There is more information on how to contact us by e-mail and snail mail on our contact page. I'm sorry we have to put it in a roundabout way, but we have had to do this to try to reduce the volume of spam and e-mail viruses.

Click here to see my profile on academia.edu

Contents of this page

1. Blogs & journals
2. Websites maintained by Steve Hayes
3. Orthodox Church pages
4. Links to mission articles
5. Literary pages
6. Discussion forums
7. Society and politics
8. Family history
9. Personal and family pages

Websites

• The Web of Exchange - pages dealing with the work of Charles Williams, an English poet and novelist associated with other authors such as C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien in the Inklings
• The Southern African Missiological Society (SAMS) - information about the society, its journal Missionalia (including several articles from past issues), its annual congress, and other information of interest to missiologists, including African Independent Churches. This is the old SAMS site, which has been saved from the wreck of Geocities, but it still has material that has not bene moved to the current site
• Orthodox mission pages - articles on various aspects of Orthodox mission, including questions frequently asked by non-Orthodox Christians
• African family history network - family and local history on the African continent.
• Hayes family pages - pages dealing with various topics, theology, literature, sport, travel, family history, some of which are listed below.

As you can see, I maintain a number of web pages, both personal, and for other organisations and bodies. If you want to write to me about any of them, please specify which ones you are writing about. It is not enough to say "your webpage", because I will have no way of knowing which one you are referring to.

I also write and edit pages for Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia. If you want to contact me about that, you can find our more at my Wikipedia user page. I am mainly concerned with pages on southern African history, Christianity in Africa and Orthodox Christianity.

Orthodox Church pages

• Orthodox mission pages
• Orthodox mission articles
• Orthodox in southern Africa - a web meeting place and discussion forum for Orthodox Christians in Southern Africa
• Orthodox in Gauteng - a web meeting place and discussion forum for Orthodox Christians in Gauteng province, South Africa
• Mission in the Orthodox Archdiocese of Johannesburg and Pretoria
• Orthodox Church of St Nicholas of Japan in Brixton, Johannesburg
• Society of St Nicholas of Japan
• Balkan Spring 1998 - Orthodoxy in Greece and Bulgaria
• Balkan Spring 2000 - Orthodoxy in Greece and Albania
• The Orthodox Faith
• The Orthodox Church

Links to mission articles

Published academic articles

• Orthodox mission in tropical Africa
• Orthodoxy and liberation theology
• Christian responses to witchcraft and sorcery
• African Independent Churches - judgement through terminology
• Nationalism, violence and reconciliation
• Deconstructing Sundkler -- Bethesda-type AICs
• General information about missiology

Blog articles and series

• Tales from Dystopia -- a series of blog posts with reminiscences of life in South Africa during the apartheid era. We sometimes complain about the problems of the present, but it is too easy to forget the darkness from which we have come.
• Religion, religions and salvation -- a series of posts on a Christian theology of religions.

Other published articles

• The ikon in an age of neotribalism -- some thoughts about ikons, literacy, modernity and the global village

Articles on Scribd

I am also uploading some documents to the Scribd document server. Some of them may not be listed here, but you can see a full list if you go to the site.
• Was material self-interest more important than religious conviction to the Kholwa? -- South African church and mission history.


Unpublished articles

• Christianity, paganism and literature
• Antisemitism and Orthodoxy
• Ikons or idols
• Orthodoxy and nationalism
• Evangelism and proselytism
• Religion and spirituality
• Holy Tradition and Holy Scripture
• Christianity and literature

Discussion Forums

• AIC Research -- Research into African Independent Churches
• African Genealogy -- For those interested in African genealogy and family history.
• Christianity and society is for discussion of society, culture and social issues from any Christian perspective.
• Neo-Inklings - for discussion of the works of the literary group the Inklings, whose members included Charles Williams, C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Owen Barfield and several others. It is also for discussing their philosophy, theology and literary criticism and related topics.
• Growdon and Growden -- Growdon family history and genealogy.
• Missiological -- A discussion list for teachers, practitioners, and students of missiology from all Christian perspectives.
• New Religious Movements -- A discussion forum for those engaged in or interested in academic research into new religious movements that have appeared since the beginning of the 19th century.
• Orthodox Mission and Missiology -- News and discussion.
• Religion rap -- for discussing different religious beliefs and practices.
• Thandanani -- "Thandanani" is a Zulu word that means "love one another" and it is a forum for Christians of different backgrounds and traditions to learn more about each other's faith traditions in an atmosphere of mutual respect and friendliness.
• Worldchat -- for discussion of almost anything of interest to participants, but especially culture, customs, language etc. in different countries, and things that might be off-topic in the other forums.

Literary pages

• Christianity and literature (with links to other literary pages)
• The Inklings
• Pilgrims of the Absolute by Brother Roger, C.R. -- Jack Kerouac, Jean Genet, Leon Bloy, beats and St Francis.
• The Web of Exchange - the Coinherence web site on the works of Charles Williams
• Literary Links - Inklings, Beat Generation and more
• Christianity, paganism and literature
• BookCrossing - what to do with your old books once you've read them - release them into the wild, and see where they turn up.

Society and politics

• Liberalism in South Africa
• The Banned Wagon -- why liberals and other opponents of apartheid were banned by the Nationalist government in South Africa, 1948-1994.
• Deportation from Namibia - the Last Pink Press

Family history and genealogy

• Main Hayes family history page
• Some families we are researching
• Family History journal - a blog about our family history research -- notes, queries, anecdotes, sources and resources.
• Family History Wiki - a family history resource that all the family can contribute to
• Growdon family page -- if your surname is Growdon or Growden, check this page
• TribalPages online family tree - because of privacy concerns, you need a password to read these pages. If you would like to look at them, please e-mail me for the password at hayesstw@gmail.com
• Gencircles another site with our family tree, no password needed.

Blogs and journals

• Khanya blog - my main blog about theology, literature, society, culture, politics and anything else that takes my fancy
• LiveJournal - a journal of happenings and reflections
• Notes from underground - a blog of ideas and opinions on society, culture, religion, politics and more.
• Family History journal - a blog about our family history research -- notes, queries, anecdotes, sources and resources.
• My tribes - personal contacts with friends & family, and family news.
• My MySpace page - a contact place, but "My tribes" above is better.

Personal, miscellaneous and family pages

• Hayes family pages - the home page of this site
• Hayes family home - the home page of our family
• Index of all pages on this site
• HayesGreene - our family history blog
• Khanya - a blog on theology, culture, politics, literature and more
• LiveJournal - a journal of happenings and reflections
• Notes from underground - a blog of ideas and opinions.
• My tribes - better than Yahoo 360 and MySpace!
• Family History journal - a blog about our family history research -- notes, queries, anecdotes, sources and resources.
• Steve Hayes - the guy who wrote all this stuff
• Trolley buses
• The Hayes family of Tshwane, Gauteng, South Africa
• Some pet peeves about e-mail etc
• South African accents and pronunciation
• More information on how to contact us