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...
Tired? Burnt Out? Disillusioned? The work of justice can leave us drained and disheartened. Where do we find the strength to keep going when the struggle seems endless?
A provocation by Zenzile Molo. We have spent today looking at two of the stories Luke tells of meals around the table with Jesus. Luke 14: a meal with the Pharisees where Jesus turns blessing and honour on its head and tells a parable which illustrates his point of inclusion and inviting the outcasts, but...
…between slave or free, male or female…* A slave** sits at the table with the master** of the house at the weekly bible study. The topic: how they can be more Christ-like in their relationships with those around them. The slave, terrified, but knowing this is the time, plucks up the courage and gently, though...
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...
A person is collecting water from a river one day when all of a sudden she sees a baby floating down the river towards her. Quickly, she wades into the water, lifts the baby out, dries it off, clothes it, feeds it and sets up a cot for it to sleep. The next day, yet...
…between Greek or Jew, male or female…* A recent newcomer to the neighbourhood church arrives on a Sunday when the new elders of the church are being announced, honoured, and prayed for on stage. The newcomer notices something strange: although the church seems to be fairly diverse, all the elders have Jewish-sounding surnames. After the...
I loved playing rugby at high school and university, and Cape Town winters meant playing on wet and muddy fields. Muddied clothes were a badge of honour while clean clothes were a clear indication that you hadn’t contributed during the game. I am often told that getting involved in the work of justice is bad...
Zach Stewart is a talented artist and deep thinker whose work explores topics such as whiteness, colonisation, lament, faith, justice and humanity — among other things. Zach matriculated at the end of last year and his final matric art project (of which the pieces included here are part) explored the topic ‘burden’. We asked Zach...
