New Year’s Eve: A Time for Reflection
Dear God, We pray for another way of being: another way of knowing. Across the difficult terrain of our existence we have attempted to build…
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Christmas: The Original Defiance Campaign
Friends, On 26 June 1952 the Defiance Campaign against unjust laws in SA was launched. Until then in South Africa it was the largest non-violent…
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The Liberating Spirit of Mary
Friends, Every year on the third week of Advent we are invited to sing Mary’s liberation song with her. Few words have ever been spoken…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
