Rwanda gathering of Gafcon conservatives draws 1 300 from 53 nations as Global South fellowship moves toward merger By John Sandeman — Christianity Today A “revived, renewed, and reordered” Anglican Communion will be the core message delivered tomorrow to 1 300 conservative Anglicans from 53 countries meeting this week in […]
Opinion
How ‘The Third Education Revolution’ could transform SA – Vishal Mangalwadi
Charlene Pauw reports on a message delivered by Indian Christian thought leader Vishal Mangalwadi during the Christian Leaders Forum SA’s first quarterly online prayer meeting for 2023 on March 29 The guest speaker at our recent Christian Leaders Forum SA online prayer meeting, Vishal Mangalwadi, is a prominent social reformer, political […]
‘Passing of Tata Wallace Mgoqi, cause to reflect on how poorly we have treated good leaders’
Tshego Motaung pays tribute to the memory of Dr Wallace Mgoqi, an advocate, thinker, social activist and champion of the poor, who passed away earlier this week. A former city manager of Cape Town and former chief land claims commissioner –among many positions he held — he was chairman of […]
An Easter sacrifice: courage remembered — Charles Gardner
The approach to Passover and Easter is a good time to remember the extreme bravery of German pastor Paul Schneider, who almost single-handedly stood up to Nazi brutality in the years immediately preceding World War II. He paid with his life, murdered by lethal injection in July 1939, aged just […]
‘Christian and political leaders in SA playing football with Palestinian lives’
By Bafana Modise As a Christian who has travelled to Israel and who has had the opportunity to analyse the conflict between Palestine and Israel from both sides of the coin, it is truly upsetting that the very leaders who have taught the Bible to millions, have repeatedly allowed themselves […]
‘Shocking increase in gender-specific religious persecution of women’
Special report commissioned by Open Doors International to coincide with International Women’s Day which is today. Digital persecution is a growing method to discriminate against Christian converts, especially women. This is one of the findings of a new gender-specific religious persecution (GSRP) report commissioned by the ministry organisation Open Doors International, which […]
CRAMMED WITH HEAVEN: Made for joy
A new monthly column in which Jenni Pretorius Hill shares stories of hope which bring Heaven’s perspective to Earth Jesus was a happy man. But the Bible also tells us he was well acquainted with grief and sorrow. In my journey in ministry, I have often found that people are […]
I really HOPE you read this — Elize-Marie Muller
We are so used to the word “hope”. “I hope you know what I mean”, “I hope the weather holds for our dinner outside”, “I really hope things change in our country”. We use the word casually, sometimes ignorantly or sometimes we just load the word with a lot of […]
Declaration of a state of disaster: what’s the fuss and why?
By Cheryllyn Dudley, political analyst for DiaLOGOS, SharedFuture, GSKI, author and former MP RSA 1999-2019 The two words God always speaks to my spirit when thinking-about-what-I-am-thinking’ are hope and humility. You, like me, have probably read on social media many passionate calls from all quarters of society for the president […]
Dr Michael Brown: Why ‘Asbury revival’ is ‘exactly what we’ve been expecting’
Originally published in Charisma News America is hungry for revival, and the recent outpouring of the Holy Spirit at Asbury University, already spreading to other college campuses, is proof of hungry hearts yearning for God’s refining fire. As one of the leading ministry figures during the Brownsville Revival in Pensacola, […]