God Edition 2025

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…