Monthly Archives: August 2008
Missional and sexuality – Part 1
The word ‘missional’ is in vogue today. Everyone has to be ‘missional.’ Churches have to become ‘missional.’ Missional, missional, missional. I agree with the emphasis on the missio Dei but I have to protest that this word, through overuse, is…
Roads and paths
The medium with which we travel determines to a large extent how we will appreciate our surroundings. Take for example someone traveling through a National Park in a vehicle at 120 km/h. Everything outside will be reduced to a blur….
Diepsloot visit
Over the weekend 23 friends of the Diepsloot squatter camp visited with the people of Claypot. It was a lot of fun and we all learned a lot. We ate food, told stories and laughed a lot. It was amazing…
Where Jesus likes to do Bible study
I wonder what would happen to our Christology if we form it in the desolate and dangerous places. It’s a pity that most of our middle-class theology happens in the safe confines of suburbia. It would be naive to think…
