The antidote to fear

David Ellis  |  Features
Date posted:  1 Nov 2003
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It was Christmas. We were in Central Java. Alongside our work with the Javanese Church, both of us taught at a Christian university.

Our students presented us with an unusual Christmas card - a banner strung across the street immediately outside our front gate. Its greeting: 'The spirit of Christmas demands that we kick to death all colonial imperialist dogs'.

At one end of the bold red lettering stood a crudely-painted Union Jack; at the other, the Stars and Stripes.

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