Lessons from the garden
Friends, Once a year over Christmas and New Year I go on an all-out gardening binge. A real bender. As with most binges there are…
Advent: Reimagining Our World
Friends, Each week of Advent we are invited to contemplate a different theme: Hope, Peace, Joy and Love. We do so through the lens of…
In good faith
Friends, I have wanted to introduce you to The Red Hand Files for a while now. The Red Hand Files are written by Nick Cave – a…
Sixty Harvests Left
Friends, Author of Farmageddon and Dead Zone, Philip Lymbery is at it again. His latest book: Sixty Harvests Left has taken its title from a chilling warning made by the…
Days of Zondo
Friends, Every Sunday there is a set psalm. The set psalm for today is Psalm 65. Part of my practice is to read the Sunday…
Understanding Apathy
Friends, One of the people I return to over and over again for clarity of thought is Joanna Macy. She writes plainly: “Life on our…
Faith and Finance
Friends, Last week my colleagues and I gathered for our Spring Seminar in Paarl. The theme was: Faith and Finance: Towards a Christ-like Theology of…
Daniel Erlander
Friends, Dan Erlander, the artist-author of MANNA and MERCY: A brief history of God’s unfolding promise to mend the entire universe, died last Sunday. I join…
Evangelism
Friends, There are two diagrams below. The first diagram depicts probably the most common Christian understanding of evangelism. The idea being that Christians must encourage…
Expose the Empire
Friends, We are in the middle of a three week reflection on Paul’s letter to the Colossians. Last week we noted that every word of…