• Bored with Christianity – not Jesus

    I’m struck by the huge amount of people who are bored with Christianity. Everywhere I look I see people who feel like they’ve heard it all. As we move into the church’s celebration of Pentecost I’m haunted by this fact….

  • Scot McKnight – fasting – session 3

    In one of the sessions last week, Scot gave his interpretation of fasting in the Bible. It was really and interesting talk for me and one I will have to check out for myself. Give it a listen and tell…

  • Ascension day

    Here are some thoughts on Ascension (largely inspired by Walter Brueggemann in his brilliant book “Mandate to Difference”). Today is Ascension day. When most of us grew up in South Africa, in our pre-democratic days, it was a holiday. When…

  • Singing songs with Jesus’ mother and Bob Marley

    On Sunday evening I sat in a multi-racial gathering where my friend Trevor Davies facilitated a conversation on how we grew up in South Africa. The stories that were shared that evening were diverse and covered, on the one side,…