Gateway News asks Linda Blandford about her new book 1. Tell me about yourself I’m Linda Blandford, born and raised in Port Elizabeth (good ol’PE and now called Gqeberha). Growing up with parents who dedicated their lives to Christ just as I was born instilled in me a lifelong love […]
Books & Book Reviews
Before You Vote: A question that became a much bigger journey
KwaZulu-Natal pastor Ivan Haylock shares how a topic he always avoided ignited a calling to expand his understanding of discipleship and embark upon writing books and creating tools to empower believers to vote biblically and share their faith in polling queues I never really imagined myself writing a book. In […]
Book preview: Career woman Tebele Makhetha chooses life amid cancer, loss and uncertainty
For many people, a cancer diagnosis, the demands of motherhood and the breakdown of a marriage would be enough to push them to the edge. But when Tebele Makhetha found herself facing some of life’s most difficult battles, she made a deliberate decision: she chose life. That decision is at […]
‘Dangerously Alive!’: hair-raising accounts of missionary life amid civil war — Charles Gardner
Book preview by Charles Gardner The idea that when you decide to follow Jesus you have effectively responded to a call-up for war might sound exaggerated. But that was precisely the experience of Simon Guillebaud. As a 25-year-old, in 1998, he knew for sure that God was calling him to […]
Jerusalemites — the people of Jerusalem through a photographer’s lens
Book PreviewFor 15 years, from 2011 to 2026, Sharon Gabay photographed Jerusalem through its people rather than its monuments. Born in the city, into a family that has lived there for generations, he went out into the streets week after week, at eye level, without staging. JERUSALEMITES, published in 2026, […]
American missionary details brutal six years in captivity: ‘I lost my religion, but gained my faith’
Originally published in The Christian Post For six and a half years, Jeff Woodke, a missionary worker with Youth with a Mission Relief and Development, slept outside in the West African desert, often with chains around his ankles. There was no room, no bed and, for much of that time, almost no […]
New Testament Hebrew translation aims to make Scriptures more accessible to Jews
Originally published in AllIsraelNews. More than a century after a German scholar set out to translate the New Testament into Hebrew before it was even a spoken language, a new generation will now have an opportunity to read the latest edition of this translation in more contemporary parlance. The Trinitarian […]
Book preview: ‘The Name She Carries: What it Means to Give and Carry a Name in Marriage’
South African author and composer Luthando Mbengo has published The Name She Carries: What It Means to Give and Carry a Name in the Covenant of Marriage, a new Christian book challenging contemporary understandings of identity and womanhood within the marital covenant. Released as Women’s Month draws to a close, […]
Barna book argues worldview gap explains why many Christians think like the culture
Originally published in Christian Daily International A new book from Christian researcher George Barna argues that the reason many people who call themselves Christians think and live indistinguishably from the broader culture comes down to a missing foundation — not a lack of sincerity, but the absence of a coherent […]
From burnout to hope — Dean publishes four books with strong community support
For Gqeberha writer and former minister Dean Cothill, writing four books was never simply about becoming an author. It was about making sense of a deeply personal journey through ministry, burnout, healing, and rediscovering hope. After recently launching a BackaBuddy campaign to fund the first print run of his books, […]