South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Craig Bailie questions whether the Church in South Africa is appropriately engaged in the necessary conversations surrounding issues of social justice. In the first of a 3-part series he calls on Christians to become ‘sacred spaces’ of conversation. — See Part 2 and Part 3. Three recent, provocative and reinforcing events helped […]
A monthly column that reflects on living in the Kingdom of God. With the announcement by South Africa’s Education Minister that the teaching of history will become a compulsory subject up to and including Matriculants, history is in the news again. This move has been on the cards for some […]
I can see you cringe at my heading — or maybe you’re chuckling — either way it’s going to be a fun article … I hope. A while ago I asked our editor here at Gateway News, Andre Viljoen, if I could write articles around the nutrition/health connection. So here […]
Last year the Mail & Guardian hosted a number of dialogues with the ANC presidential hopefuls before the Nasrec conference. This to me was a rare opportunity to engage ANC leaders on policies that affect all of us as South Africans. I had observed, with concern (as we all have), […]
A monthly column by Michael Cassidy, evangelist, author, Christian leader and founder of African Enterprise whose ministry in Africa and the world has spanned more than 50 years. The words “thank you” are so simple, yet without them life would be immediately saddened and impoverished. For to receive favours, blessings, […]
Friends, Tuesday (26 May 2018) marked the end of 70 years since apartheid was instituted in South Africa on May 26 1948. It is the end of a generation and an era. Yet our country is grappling with renewed racial tensions and feelings of injustice (on all sides). This has […]
The history of our country is a complex one – and whenever we tell the story of South Africa, we often take out parts we don’t like. This makes us an interesting country where history lessons often depend on who is telling the story. I was confronted by this reality […]
Throughout the Bible we see scripture after scripture revealing God’s heart towards children and how He values the little ones, describing them as crowns, rewards, a heritage, a joy, blessings, the greatest, and so on. We are instructed and taught how to raise them, how to teach them, how to […]
Earlier this month I wrote an article asking if God still speaks to modern nations the way He did in the past? Little did I know that before the month ended I would be in a meeting in parliament where leaders in government, business and civil society movements would be […]
A call for you to rise up into a new way of being and living with God. Hey Folks, It’s that time of year where my friend Brian Blount from Oklahoma, USA is coming to South Africa. Brian operates in miracles, healing and power evangelism but more than that, he […]