An idea whose time has come
Victor Hugo once wrote, ‘Nothing is as powerful as an idea whose time has come.’ I recalled this saying when reflecting on the problems faced by...
10.7.2021
16:11
3.7.2021
19:29
The limits of our possibilities
Ferdinand Spit (Ferrie) was a Dutchman who worked with us at Silveira House in Zimbabwe in...
26.6.2021
13:48
Thus have we made the world
We are six months from Christmas! Someone in the early Church, following the scriptures and doing...
19.6.2021
18:01
Breaking the spiral
On 14 June we celebrated a 100th birthday with a difference. The centenarian wasn’t there. He...
12.6.2021
17:30
Listen to the music
Maria Callas was a supremely gifted Greek singer who died in 1977. People at the time...
22.5.2021
13:35
A flood of recognition
Suddenly it was clear to them. Up to then they were full of questions, sometimes in...
15.5.2021
13:42
Rising to the occasion
There is an English saying of unknown origin: ‘cometh the hour, cometh the man.’ It refers...
8.5.2021
9:58
‘He was lifted up’
We take it for granted but it is beautiful to look up into the sky and...
26.4.2021
16:47
A loss of roots
The burning of the Jagger Library on the main campus of the university of Cape Town...
18.4.2021
12:44
They stood there dumbfounded
It is said there is only one thing harder to take than bad news, and that...
11.4.2021
10:37
‘Get thee to thy typewriter’
I could not sleep last night and read Doris Lessing’s autobiography instead. She spent her formative...
5.4.2021
9:15
Do this in memory of me
It was Sunday. Rumours began to circulate that he was alive. It seemed ‘sheer nonsense’ (Luke...
21.3.2021
6:50
The agony and the triumph
It sounds incidental. Just a detail thrown in to add variety: ‘some Greeks’ appear at the...
