South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
God understands fully our experience of being human. It’s a truth we know well, but in our familiarity with the incarnation we can lose the profundity of it. Jesus was a baby, requiring the care and nurture of parents; he was a boy who had to learn responsibility and societal […]
A monthly column in which Jenni Pretorius Hill shares stories of hope which bring Heaven’s perspective to Earth The statue of David, carved by Michelangelo in the 1500s, was cut from a block of marble that had stood abandoned for two decades. The greatest sculptors of the time had dismissed […]
A monthly column in which Jenni Pretorius Hill shares stories of hope which bring Heaven’s perspective to Earth My cynical response to the education department’s boast in improved pass rates was not an ideal way to kick off 2025. I admit I’m sceptical, especially since I was one of those […]
A monthly column in which Jenni Pretorius Hill shares stories of hope which bring Heaven’s perspective to Earth The people I most like to be with, are those who appreciate and celebrate life’s simple joys. I was living in London when I met the man I would eventually marry. Not […]
A monthly column in which Jenni Pretorius Hill shares stories of hope which bring Heaven’s perspective to Earth Late one night a young woman walked through a deserted parking lot. Before she reached her car, a gang of men came out of the shadows and encircled her. There was no […]
A monthly column in which Jenni Pretorius Hill shares stories of hope which bring Heaven’s perspective to Earth I recently read Imagine Heaven by John Burke. It’s a book devoted to exploring NDEs (Near Death Experiences) and the dominant themes that have emerged from people’s testimonies of dying and going […]
A monthly column in which Jenni Pretorius Hill shares stories of hope which bring Heaven’s perspective to Earth Jesus demonstrated the Kingdom message with tangible displays of power. Wherever He went, people got healed, delivered, and raised from the dead. For a long time, I didn’t even consider that it […]
A monthly column in which Jenni Pretorius Hill shares stories of hope which bring Heaven’s perspective to Earth My daughter is gifted in making cards: the old-fashioned kind – on card or paper that can be slid into an envelope and attached to a gift. But these are a lot […]
A monthly column in which Jenni Pretorius Hill shares stories of hope which bring Heaven’s perspective to Earth As encouraging as our election result was, South Africa is not out of the woods. I can’t surmise who will feature on our political landscape this time next week, considering the antics, […]
A monthly column in which Jenni Pretorius Hill shares stories of hope which bring Heaven’s perspective to Earth I have never come close to losing a child, but we have had our share of scares, and nights spent in a push-back easy chair alongside a hospital bed. My heart has […]