South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
[notice]As the SA justice system weighs the events surrounding the tragic shooting of Reva Steenkamp, SIFISO MABENA says that for Christians the end of the matter is not whether Oscar Pistorius committed murder or made a dreadful mistake. As children of God we are called to a different way of […]
Book Review by John Shortt First Class: The calling and impact of a Christian teacher (There is also an Afrikaans version called: Eerste Klas: Die roeping en impak van ‘n Christen-Onderwyster) This book is a real gem. It is packed with practical advice for the teacher but, at the same […]
The role of Christian school principals is to reconnect teachers with their calling from God, said teacher and author Werner Cloete at the launch of his book, First Class — the Calling and Impact of a Christian Teacher. Teachers who rediscovered their Godly calling would follow the example of missionary […]
[notice]A monthly column by Marcel van der Watt, lecturer in the Department of Police Practice at UNISA, former police detective, and current member of the Gauteng Rapid Response Task Team for Human Trafficking.[/notice] Whilst reflecting on the past two weeks’ media coverage of tragic events playing out in South Africa, […]
How do we view the things happening in our beloved country at present? When we open our newspapers and read of yet more murders, rapes, fraud, and road deaths, to say nothing of a government that has failed to deliver on so many fronts, what is our reaction? Do we […]
By Apolinari Tairo — Originally published in ETN Christians on the Indian Ocean island of Zanzibar are living with fears following frequent attacks and the Sunday (February 17) brutal killing of a Catholic priest on this Muslim-dominated island. Gunmen have shot dead a Catholic priest, Father Evarist Mushi, at the […]
[notice]Johanita Jordaan shares her personal experience of encountering the church when she was a lesbian, and offers her opinion on how to reach out to homosexuals with the love of Christ.[/notice] After reading the article “Church will be asked to accept gays” in which it is reported that the Dutch […]
[notice]A fortnightly devotional based on everyday experiences.[/notice] Don’t shuffle along, eyes to the ground, absorbed with the things right in front of you. Look up, and be alert to what is going on around Christ—that’s where the action is. See things from his perspective. Colossians 3:1-2 (MSG) “Two tweets, people!” […]
Something is missing. It is missing in the speeches of the political leaders, it is missing on the celebrity tweets on Twitter and their Facebook status updates and it is definitely missing in the commentary and reports of journalists in the press. This something was certainly missing in the State […]
[notice] Recent developments in Algeria, Syria, Iraq and Mali have shown the new generation of Al-Qaeda, “Al-Qaeda 3.0”, to be alive and thriving. As seen with communism, a simple ideology can be removed, but with religion, an attempt at removal only creates martyrs who will further their cause or religious […]