South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Martin Luther King Jr is credited for saying: “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends”. Anyone who has ever lived for anything in any environment would have experienced the brutal betrayal of friends or supporters who fail to stand […]
Christianity has survived centuries of resistance and persecution. But it has also been greatly misunderstood, not only by those who persecuted Christians but often by Christians themselves. Enter the Crusades. It seems to me that these Crusades were the product of their time: a time of violence, world dominance and […]
Having established a biblical response to racism in last week’s Gateway News, I’d like to further expound on the theme by making it more personal. Racism is the trending topic at the moment with the theme “Black Lives Matter” plastered on memes on social media, as well as on the online […]
“Then they spit in his face and struck him. And some slapped him, saying, “Prophesy to us, you Christ! Who is it that struck you?” — Matt 26:67-68 (ESV) There is a very precious lesson in the above experience at the beginning of Christ’s suffering. See, Christ did not bother to […]