Crowds, Compassion and Corona
Seeing Unequal Spaces
Given the history and city planning of our past, it is possible to live in Cape town and not regularly be exposed to the stark difference of housing quality. Jonny Miller set out to display how unequal communities can be, as objectively as possible. By using drone photography, you can quickly see how two groups of people, separated by a wall...
A new Christmas story
WHAT STORY DO YOU WANT TO BE TELLING?
Every year it catches me by surprise. Seemingly out of nowhere, the shops start putting up Christmas decorations. Advertising through every medium will start coming, convincing me that I need something, that my family will only be happy if we have this, or experience that. Then the Christmas songs will start, most of which...
The Ancient Practice of Lament
The topic of violence against women is in the spotlight again. Not because there was an increase in statistics, but the prominence of the cases took the spotlight and forced people to engage. National discourse shifted and story after story of violence against women and children surfaced. For some who more aware of this devastating scourge on our society may have been asking “this has been...
The danger of a single story
Novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie delivered a powerful TED talk in 2009. She raised the crucial issue that we can have pictures, stories and ideas about people groups and cultures that are too narrow, too restrictive and limiting. We can live lives with these stories in our minds, shaping the way we see and interact with people from these groups and...
Scriptural reflections on giving time
Time: A commodity that has no bias. We can’t hoard it. It’s not stored in a savings account. Every person is only given 24 hours per day: it is the ultimate equalizer. Time, like manna in the exodus, is given and consumed daily. This is perhaps why Moses asked of the Lord “Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a...
The Bible, Justice and My Life
Karl Barth, a theologian from the 20th Century encouraged Christians to take the newspaper in one hand and the Bible in the other. Christ-followers are to interpret newspapers from the Bible. In a country like South Africa, this practice is essential. There seems to be a relentless barrage of news that tells of deepening poverty, injustice and divided communities and society. ...
