Drawn by the father

You may have seen the story on the net of the man, competing in a race, helping the winner to win....

Thank you

I thought he was coming to ask me to do something but he wasn’t. He came...

An idea whose time has come

Victor Hugo once wrote, ‘Nothing is as powerful as an idea whose time has come.’ I...

The limits of our possibilities

Ferdinand Spit (Ferrie) was a Dutchman who worked with us at Silveira House in Zimbabwe in...

Thus have we made the world

We are six months from Christmas! Someone in the early Church, following the scriptures and doing...

Breaking the spiral

On 14 June we celebrated a 100th birthday with a difference. The centenarian wasn’t there. He...

Listen to the music

Maria Callas was a supremely gifted Greek singer who died in 1977. People at the time...

A flood of recognition

Suddenly it was clear to them. Up to then they were full of questions, sometimes in...

Rising to the occasion

There is an English saying of unknown origin: ‘cometh the hour, cometh the man.’ It refers...

‘He was lifted up’

We take it for granted but it is beautiful to look up into the sky and...

A loss of roots

The burning of the Jagger Library on the main campus of the university of Cape Town...

They stood there dumbfounded

It is said there is only one thing harder to take than bad news, and that...

‘Get thee to thy typewriter’

I could not sleep last night and read Doris Lessing’s autobiography instead. She spent her formative...

Do this in memory of me

It was Sunday. Rumours began to circulate that he was alive. It seemed ‘sheer nonsense’ (Luke...

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