As this Women’s Month draws to a close, we remember the women who stood together against the Pass Laws in the mid 50s, refusing to accept a system that determined where they could live, work and move. Their struggle remains part of South Africa’s memory, and yet this August we find ourselves facing an unsettling...
Newsletter Editorial By Dr Selena Headley The City of Cape Town has announced a R114 million budget for the N2 Edge Safety Project aka “N2 Hell Run“. They proposed a wall and we are all invited into making a choice, because this is not only a budget decision, but a moral one. It raises difficult...
By John Scheepers As a middle-age white man who grew up safely cocooned within apartheid policing and spatial planning, my experience as a hardened criminal is admittedly limited. But just bear with me for a moment as I think out loud. If, for whatever reason, greed, addiction or poverty induced desperation, I was accustomed to...
Dear Friend, We find ourselves in deeply uncertain times. Across the world, suffering and injustice continue to unfold in devastating ways. The weight of displacement, loss, hunger and the erasure of human dignity touches every corner of the globe. These are not just headlines, they are the cries of real people, many of whom are...
Dear friends Those of you who have been journeying with us over the past year or so will be familiar with the invitation that has become a core pillar for us as we seek to align ourselves to the Spirit’s movements in the world: “Go far, go slow, go together”. Over the past few months,...
Dear friends As many of you have read in our past newsletters, The Warehouse staff is committed to rhythms, practises and processes of Corporate Listening and Discernment (or CLAD for short). This involves us submitting the constant listening and contextual analyses we are all engaged in to each other, to the light of Scripture and to the...
“Hope is the power to keep focusing on the larger vision while taking the small, often undramatic, steps toward that future.” – Mitri Raheb* Dear friends, Over these past two years as we at The Warehouse – with our wider community of friends – have remained committed to being a listening and discerning community, we have sensed and leant into...
“We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.” – Proverb from the First Nations people of Turtle Island Dear friends, Anything worth building must be done with the intention to outlast its builder. These are the conditions of sustainable transformation. This year, The Warehouse turned 21. We celebrated this...
At The Warehouse, we long to see a world marked by God’s peace and justice, a world which embodies goodness between all things, a world where there is restoration of all that has been broken. Yet it doesn’t take too much work to recognise that we are a long way away from this world. The present realities...
