We runners, like good churchgoers, are a community, we follow rituals, we try to convert everyone and, best of all, we finally enter the zone
Drew Forrest uses one of South Africa’s most important hominid discoveries to debate the paradoxes and contradictions inherent in the religious doctrine of ‘ensoulment’
Is reconciliation through food hard to swallow? Perhaps we should emulate John Lennon and give peas a chance
The asceticism of the elite presents inequality as virtue, while the poor endure real deprivation
Eva Haahjem-Gill reflects on the evolving role of religion in Johannesburg’s public schools
It’s a valid question often asked by those questioning the existence of the Divine
For this year’s Mail & Guardian God Edition, we asked a number of the country’s prominent politicians what role faith plays in their lives
Even in the chaos of our health centres, divinity moves through ordinary people doing extraordinary work
When politics resembles possession, the Vatican should offer group rates for exorcising elected officials
One writer’s journey through activism and grief led him back to the altar — on his own terms
Before Ephraim Cebisa Mabena embarked on his mission, the area had become an illegal dumpsite, a cesspool of murder and rape, a chop-shop for stolen cars and a hideaway for drug abusers