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God's man in Congress

Amid apparent tensions between church and state over a number of moral and political issues, there is sustained and reasoned dialogue.

After the chicken is sacrificed the spirits seem appeased

Anthony Egan doesn't believe in ghosts. But once, one night on a remote Philippine island, something strange happened ...

Paying lip service

Mandy Rossouw asks ACDP leader Kenneth Meshoe why Christians seem to have little faith in his party.

Digital prayers for Parliament

At the request of a cross-party group of members of Parliament, the Jesuit Institute of SA has been emailing daily meditations to parliamentarians.

Opening up the mosque

Muslim activists are fighting to allow women the same space as men, writes Ilham Rawoot.

Breaking bread in Hillbrow

A small community of Progressive Jews is thriving in the heart of this inner-city ghetto, writes Matthew Krouse.

The wrong kind of power

Will the Medical Research Council's findings in June last year -- that one in four South African men admit to rape -- be on the agenda? I doubt it.

The church gamble

A service in a casino? Yes, and you can have a beer afterwards. But at its core, it's 'brutally biblical'. Verashni Pillay reports.

Buttoned up in Jo'burg

Fordsburg attracts many conservative Muslims. Faranaaz Parker reports.

Universal leap of faith

Chris Mann explores the connection between poetic vision, science and religious belief.