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If your Church closed tomorrow, would anyone notice?

I remember being challenged by a friend who asked me this question: “If your church closed tomorrow would anyone notice?” While it annoyed me greatly at the time, it is a powerful question that we would do well to ask ourselves in times like these. Exploring answers to this question is not as much about...

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Who Are Our Neighbours?

The Warehouse is a community, and like all communities we battle with issues of difference. Believe it or not, we don’t all agree. Theology is often our place of difference. We are a sum of our parts; some Charismatic, some mainline denominations, some Pentecostal. This means that we are often invited into spaces of grappling,...

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Beyond Charity, Into Relationship

I remember being about nine when I first truly encountered Christianity. I had grown up in a fairly irreligious home. The issue was more that religious people believed just another fairytale among the plethora of other fairytales. I was raised to question everything; the world consists of conflicting narratives – live with the tension. About...

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Reflections on Water: From Madagascar to Cape Town

Dune by Frank Herbert is one of my favourite novels of all time. It’s not just that it’s good sci-fi, but more that its messages about power, water and humankind are powerful and transcendent, and feel more accurate as the years pass. I thought of Dune often on my trip to Madagascar. The children in...

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Sanitation Campaign in the City

Three hundred thousand people in Cape Town do not have access to flushing toilets. This can and must change. When loving your neighbour means caring about their toilet Is it my problem that others in my city do not have access to a decent toilet? Who is my neighbour in the city? Why is this...