An easy-to-read version of the Bible, which uses a vocabulary of just 1 200 words, has now been completed. The culmination of 20 years’ work, it is freely available online. The project began in the early 1990s at the request of an overseas mission worker wanting Bible commentaries, which most […]
Books & Book Reviews
Pastoral couple publish two very different books born out of same revelation
Richard and Jill Lawton, who co-lead a church in Hillcrest, KZN, both published their first book last year. His takes on a weighty theological challenge. Hers contains beautiful art and poetry. In this engaging article, Jill shares their unusual journey from Oxford University, UK to KZN — and some of […]
Afrika Mhlophe completes new book on Christianity and culture
“Freed By God But Imprisoned By Culture” is the provocative title of a new book by Port Elizabeth pastor and author Afrika Mhlophe. Mhlophe says the idea for the book came to him while he was writing his first book, “Christianity and the Veneration of the Dead” which was released […]
SA author challenges views of being single and Christian
Can we be happy when we’re single? Ryan Peter looks to answer this question in his new book, Your Single Happiness, which released on Friday, February 13, 2015. In 2004, writer and journalist Ryan Peter was tired of “having tried everything” and still being single. This, coupled with what he calls […]
Nick and Kanae Vujicic — Love Without Limits: Book Review
Book Review by Val Viljoen Love Without Limits by Nick and Kanae Vujicic Nick Vujicic is the author of the international bestseller Unstoppable, in which he tells the remarkable story of how he overcame the very considerable disability of being born with no legs and arms to become a successful […]
Laura Hillenbrand — Unbroken: Book Review
Review by Allan Verreynne (with acknowledgement to several quotes from Marshall Segal) This is one of the most riveting true life accounts that I have recently read. Once you start it, you cannot put it down!Like The life story of Louis Zamperini (1917–2014) is truly remarkable! Agony, ecstacy, despair, hope, […]
Lisa Wingate — The Story Keeper: Book Review
Book Review by Val Viljoen Jen Gibbs has a successful career in publishing when an aged manuscript mysteriously appears on her desk. It tells the story of Sarra and Rand, two people of vastly different backgrounds who find themselves thrown together in dangerous and difficult circumstances in the heart of […]
SA man tells of his 12 years in a vegetative state: “I was aware of everything”
Originally published in The Gospel Herald When 12-year-old Martin Pistorius fell into a vegetative state in the late 1980s, the diagnosis of Cryptococci Meningitis was expected to leave him in that condition until he died a short time later. But the boy didn’t die. And 12 years after his paralysis, […]
Boy says he didn’t go to heaven; publisher says it will pull book
Originally published in NPR News Nearly five years after it hit bestseller lists, a book that purported to be a six-year-old boy’s story of visiting angels and heaven after suffering a bad car crash is being pulled from shelves. The young man at the center of The Boy Who Came […]
Prophetic Word Bank: Book Review
Book Review by Afrika Mhlophe Proverbs 18:21 says, “Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit” (NKJV). If you are one those people who believe in the power of positive words then you will find the ‘Prophetic Word Bank’ […]