South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
[notice]A monthly column that reflects on living in the Kingdom of God.[/notice] In my line of work, I am approaching a very emotional time of the year. Leading a church that is mostly made up of university students, we are about to say our goodbyes to a good number of […]
[notice]A monthly column that reflects on living in the Kingdom of God.[/notice] I don’t know if you have noticed that is becoming increasingly difficult to think, evangelise and publicly behave as a Christian. When we really get to grips with the reality of what it means to be a Christian, […]
[notice]A monthly column that reflects on living in the Kingdom of God.[/notice] If you are not one to dig your head in the sand, you probably have some thoughts in the wake of our recent municipal elections. Here are six of mine: 1, No party is our Eternal Ruler, only […]
[notice]A monthly column that reflects on living in the Kingdom of God.[/notice] When I started writing this column, it was national election time in South Africa. In my first piece, I urged us as South Africans to engage in the public sphere with a Biblical lens. I deliberately entitled it […]
[notice]A monthly column that reflects on living in the Kingdom of God.[/notice] It’s National Arts Festival time in Grahamstown once again, and our city is gearing up for this annual extravaganza. Every Christian trying to live out their worldview in the arts is probably finding things difficult. Difficult because we […]
[notice]A monthly column that reflects on living in the Kingdom of God.[/notice] There is a sense on the university campuses of South Africa, that it is just a matter of time before the next protest arises, and that student activism is now an ongoing feature of the university landscape. Having […]
[notice]A monthly column that reflects on living in the Kingdom of God.[/notice] As I write, just down the road from our offices, student protests are swelling in the midst of another tumultuous week on Rhodes University campus. A number of students have just been tear-gassed, arrested and possibly shot at […]
[notice]A monthly column that reflects on living in the Kingdom of God.[/notice] It is quite incredible to see what our modern culture can do with almost anything. Take Easter for example. Here we are, in Holy week, remembering the tumultuous last week of Christ before and up to his resurrection. […]
[notice]A monthly column that reflects on living in the Kingdom of God.[/notice]As predicted, our university campuses are the scene of numerous protest actions, picking up from where they left off in 2015. Except that in 2016, the dominant focal point of these protests have not been the State, but our […]
[notice]A monthly column that reflects on living in the Kingdom of God.[/notice] While listening to one of our national public radio stations, the topic of ‘social cohesion’ and the possibility of criminalising racism came up. Not surprisingly, very soon into the discussion, the inevitable happened. It soon became a mudslinging […]