The lingua franca of most of the communities I’ve been part of is extremely one-dimensional. It can be summed up as the dialect of praise, and forces people into its fake tentacles. Now don’t misunderstand me, there certainly is a…
Today is one of those paradoxical days. Throughout the world, the community of saints, the catholic church (including but also wider than the Catholic Church) celebrates the ‘feast of the beheading of John the Baptist’. John, the mysterious character that…
As I’ve stated in a previous post, Tayla teaches me a lot of being a child in the kingdom of God. As she approaches her second birthday her mastery of language is improving every day. Earlier today Lollie told her…
In South Africa, medical insurance is called medical aid. Whenever one joins a medical aid there is an extensive screening process designed to filter out those who are a high risk for the rest of the healthy folks enrolled in…