This morning I found myself reflecting on true greatness. This was inspired by the pictures I happened to come across on my PC from last month when I attended the ordination of my best friend and brother, now the Reverend Bonganjalo Mbenenge, into the gospel ministry in the Uniting Reformed Church of Southern Africa. Knowing...
One of the most astonishing texts in the Bible is found in Matthew 19:22 and reads: “When the young man heard this, he went away sad, because he had great wealth.” The story is of a young man, whose name we are not told. The only thing we know about him is enough to make...
Growing up in the township of Khiwane, in Port Elizabeth, as a young teenager, one of my musical heroes was the late American rapper, 2Pac. One of his trademark songs was “Only God can judge me”. I still believe in the truthfulness of this statement, perhaps more now than I did then. And I know...
Today has been a very sad day for me. Seeing the photos that are making rounds in the media, of what my people are doing to my other people. My initial response to the violence meted against our African brothers in KZN and, lately in the Johannesburg CBD, was that of anger. Anger was then...
I have followed with some interest the Women Ordination debate building up to the 2015 General Conference session of my denomination, the Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) Church. One of my observations is that this discussion is largely entered into not with a learning posture, but by people who are so desperate to read into the Bible...