South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
A monthly column that reflects on living in the Kingdom of God. I was fortunate enough to overhear a short conversation between a mother and daughter. The daughter, eyes full of starry-eyed imagination, gushed forth with the priorities on her “bucket list”, including swimming with dolphins as a “must-do”. When […]
A monthly column that reflects on living in the Kingdom of God. Zimbabwean investigative journalist Edmund Kudzayi tweeted the following recently: “Zimbabwe needs a cleansing ceremony. Pastors, prophets, witchdoctors, spirit mediums, etc. Lock all of them up in the National Sports Stadium…” The tweet was undoubtedly his most popular in […]
Gateway News columnist Tendai Chitsike shares on the amazing world-impacting “student church” he leads in Grahamstown, and their daunting new challenge of acquiring a church building against unforseen odds. By the grace of God, in the year I arrived to study at Rhodes University in 1997, God used some wonderful […]
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 […]
A monthly column that reflects on living in the Kingdom of God. A popular claim that is increasingly made insists that Christianity is essentially a white man’s religion. The assertion is often made for personal, academic or contemporary reasons, and it is therefore vital to find out why this claim […]
A monthly column that reflects on living in the Kingdom of God. Perhaps my reason for writing this is the realisation that my oldest child is approaching adolescence. As a result, my wife and I are looking at what lies around the corner and how we can best prepare […]
A monthly column that reflects on living in the Kingdom of God. In his first address as President of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa responded to the various commendations given him by various opposition party leaders. He mentioned the fact that he studied at what is now Limpopo University at the […]
A monthly column that reflects on living in the Kingdom of God. Popular pastor and author Timothy Keller was in Twitter wars recently. It appeared that he made some comments that a lot of people found very controversial, so much so that it generated significant debate. Here was his comment […]
A monthly column that reflects on living in the Kingdom of God. The recent dramatic events in Zimbabwe and elsewhere in the world at various times beg the question: What is at the core of freedom? The well known story of the Exodus deals with just this issue. Here, Moses […]
A monthly column that reflects on living in the Kingdom of God. I recently heard some very encouraging reports from a Member of Parliament who is also an outspoken Christian. While he did not hesitate to speak of the major scandals we are increasingly aware of, he also shared some […]