Complacency and despair
Friends, Lent begins with the shattering of our complacency or it does not begin at all. For this reason prophet Joel gave us ‘what for’…
Family
Friends, Back in the biblical day it was custom for Rabbis to summarise their teaching in a prayer. Therefore what we call The Lord’s Prayer,…
Competition to Compassion
Friends, The Squid Game is a Netflix series that came out in September 2021. It’s been viewed in at least 94 countries by more than…
Mini-Messiah-Moment
Friends The Winter Olympics are taking place at the moment. This would have passed me by were it not for a flurry of news articles…
Rewilding
Friends, I heard the term ‘wild Christianity’ this week. As much as I found it intriguing, I thought it was also sad. For to preface…
Being Peace
Friends, Today I celebrate the life and teaching of the Vietnamese monk Thich Nhat Hanh. A monk from age 16 until his death last week…
Towering Tutu’s Foundation
Friends, In the last week more than one person has described Archbishop Desmond Tutu as a “towering” human being. Towering in integrity, courage, wisdom and…
Brackenfell High violence against EFF was ugly, immature and self-defeating
The violence directed at the EFF outside Brackenfell High added validity to the very allegations the parents were so vehemently in denial of. Any case…
Finally comes the Poet: A tribute to Mary Oliver
The poet Mary Oliver died last week. Although I am not sure it’s ever accurate to declare a poet dead, especially Oliver. The poems she…
Christmas, like love, does not have to be a literal truth
The shamans of old would end their tales with: ‘Now I don’t know if it happened this way, but I know this story is true’….