This powerful metaphor challenges us to consider the long-term effects of our thoughts, words and deeds. It has important political implications–especially in South Africa. Currently, we are reaping the harvest of decades of mismanagement, corruption and state capture. Listen to the sermon on YouTube.
Do you know the original meaning of your name? It is normally inspiring and telling. Live up to it in a world where people often exists as anonymous shadows. Listen to the reflection on YouTube.
The Trinity, God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, is the agency of our growth: moving from being unrefined to refined, from egotism to altruism, from hate, to love, from war to peace, from despair to hope. Listen to the sermon on YouTube.
All our different expressions of faith and culture, colour and creed, nature and orientation, can be accommodated at one, long table of God. Listen to the sermon on YouTube.
Much of our phobias and -isms, like xenophobia, chauvinism, homophobia, elitism, anthropophobia, and racism, are based upon cultural illiteracy and ignorance. Listen to the sermon on YouTube.
Looking death in the eye may free us to live and love more abundantly. Listen to the reflection on YouTube.
The story of Thomas reminds us that Christianity, in its essence, is pessimistic about this world. In our tragic times, where optimism can be vice, we need the fragile virtue of pessimism. This may drive us to be activists for a better future here and…
The question today is not so much on what you believe but rather what function your faith fulfils–especially where the resurrection is concerned. Listen to the sermon on YouTube.
Easter is not about the resuscitation of dead bodies, but about a life of taking responsibility for the weak, the poor, the needy and each other. Listen to the reflection on YouTube.
When we look at Jesus on the cross and meditate on it, we experience forgiveness and a catharsis of negative emotions. Listen to the reflection on YouTube.