BOOK REVIEW: The Knight & the Gardener – Worldviews Make Worlds.
I was recently introduced to the book by Cassidy S. Dale: The Knight & the Gardener – Worldviews Make Worlds. I was deeply challenged as I contemplated where I fit in as I explored his explanation of the two worldviews (knights or gardeners) that so often shape our worlds of faith, missions, and spirituality. This is NOT a book that simply contains INFORMATION but a book that should lead to INTROSPECTION. “What view best describes my spirituality?” should be the one question we should ask upon reading this book.
CYRIL RAMAPHOSA: 7 Facts South Africans need to know
Cyril Ramaphosa, the leader of the African National Congress (ANC), has been re-elected President of South Africa for the country’s seventh democratic administration. But, who is Mr.Ramaphosa really, the man outside the political arena?
BETRAYING GOD: Gaza’s children
On June 7 UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has added the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) to the global list of top perpetrators of war crimes against children. As you read this article, consider your humanity. Consider for one moment that you, as a parent, a grandparent, a mother or a father, live in Gaza.
Visit to Lebanon and Egypt: The Intent of ONE ANOTHERNESS
Why go on an outreach? Why travel all the way to the Middle East? Why don’t you just send them the money?
ELATION AND MOURNING – A costly exercise to free 4 hostages in Gaza
How do we as believers deal with the tension caused by the extremes of elation and anguish? How do we contextualise the celebration of freedom while seeking comfort for the innocent who suffered? How do we justify the deaths of so many people, especially 64 guiltless children, as the price of freedom for 4 hostages.
THE BOANERGES BROTHERS,ME AND HAMAS: An admirable loyalty but a deplorable devotion.
As I reflected on the story of the ‘sons of thunder’ in scripture, three questions arose:
Firstly, I wonder what Jesus might choose as a nickname for me.
Secondly, what is my “Samaritan village” that evokes a desire for fire and destruction.
Finally, whatever I do, “don’t the pagans do the same?”
A DOMICIDAL WAR IN GAZA: and the blah blahs of the Christian Church
Sadly, it seems like the only appropriate response many Christians the West feel comfortable in offering to the current conflict in Gaza is the blah blah blah of theological rhetoric. Every discussion at every service and every meeting has been overshadowed by repeated, empty and overlong arguments of who is right and who is wrong, who is to blame and who is the victim. Quite frankly, I’ve had enough. And maybe you have too.
CHOOSING SIDES – WHAT CURRENCY DO YOU USE?
What currency do I use when I communicate my convictions about Gaza, Israel, Hamas, Palestinians? What currency did Jesus use in communicating Kingdom values? Do they correlate or do they contradict one another?
FAMINE IN GAZA: CONNECTED EXTREMES IN A DISCONNECTED WORLD
The IPC’s global hunger monitor says Gaza has already surpassed the first two criteria that define a famine- food shortage and malnutrition – and mass death will begin “imminently” without an immediate aid surge. But the global tragedy we are witnessing is not only because of war, hatred and extremism. The challenge is our connected extremes in a disconnected world.
GAZA – A PANDEMIC OF THE MIND
There is a new pandemic sweeping the globe. I suffer from it, you, as reader, suffer from it and every other human being suffer from it. This time, unlike the 2019 COVID pandemic that affected the lungs and restricted human movement, it affects the mind and restricts human reasoning. It’s called CONFIRMATION BIAS, perhaps better described as MYSIDE BIAS.