“They said the economy would be ruined.
They said there would be revenge.
They said we could never live together.
They said… but they couldn’t see.”
~ Archbishop Desmond Tutu ~

I spent last Sunday at Nieu Communities in Pretoria and then Tuesday with a group from the States at the Apartheid Museum and Soweto (here are my reflections). My podcast interview with the Red Herring about the emerging church in South Africa has come out (I haven’t listened to it yet but I don’t think […]

We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats’ feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar
Shape without form, shade without colour,
Paralysed force, gesture without motion;
Those who have crossed
With direct eyes, to death’s other Kingdom
Remember us - if […]

“Right now, human beings as a mass, have a gruesome appetite for what they call ‘real’, whether it’s Reality TV or the kind of plodding fiction that only works as low-grade documentary, or at the better end, the factual programmes and biographies and ‘true life’ accounts that occupy the space where imagination used to sit.
Such […]

2005 turned out to be a good year - not an easy one but a memorable one. Here are some things which happened: