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...
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...
The Sacrifice of Africa and a new imagination for the church We have recently launched a Warehouse reading group through which a group of us are exploring some of the thoughts of Emmanual Katongole in his book, The Sacrifice of Africa: A Political Theology for Africa. Katongole is a Ugandan priest and theologian who thinks and...
Spoiler alert: The Sixth Sense, Star Wars and Shrek One of the longest-standing jokes in my family comes from when the presenter on a local television station announced the upcoming movie in his most dramatic voice: “Toniiiight – Bruce Willis is dead in Sixth Sense”. Years later, someone just has to say, “Toniiight…” and uproarious...
If you have ever been involved in any kind of disagreement about how the Christian faith should be understood or expressed in the world, at some point you have probably come up against (or given) the response, “but it is in the Bible”. This is an easy response but rarely a particularly helpful one. The...
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,...
…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...
…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...
In September last year, The Warehouse hosted Mzwandile Nkutha of the Anabaptist Network of South Africa, and Stuart Murray of the Anabaptist Network in the UK for an evening centred around power and theology. The ideas and discussions that emerged from this evening have given me much to reflect on in the months since. These...
