• White and African …

    This past week I spent Tuesday at the Amahoro conference. It was a wonderful day. Representatives from all over Africa mixed with a delegation of ‘the west’. On Tuesday we talked about post-colonial theology, had a visit from the ex-apartheid…

  • party with dear friends

  • What would a contextual reading of Acts 2 and Pentecost look like in South Africa?

    That is the question our faith community explored for the last few weeks. Two areas that stood out for us are racism and economics. Racism We cannot read Acts, and especially the first two chapters without seeing the wide-ranging challenge…

  • Leslie Newbigin on capitalism

    I had the privilege of spending the afternoon with some honors students at the University of Pretoria’s Theology dept. We talked our way through Leslie Newbigin’s book “The open secret”. It was an interesting conversation. The class consisted of mainly…