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Only God can save municipalities as collapse deepens
With only 16% of municipalities passing audits, South Africans face failing water systems, roads and governance. The coming elections test not only politics but morality,…
The church must grow up
Christians being treated as cows to be milked is not an insult. It is an observation. The monetisation of fear, blessing, prophecy, oil, water, soil and access has turned pulpits…
The God Edition | The runner’s high is the smug hill on which I’ll die
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
The God Edition | Searching among the bones for Homo naledi’s soul
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’
The God Edition | Secularism is the bridge to harmony and democracy
Religious organisations, political leaders and citizens all have a role to play in defending the principle of secularism
Finding home in clap and tap music
Clap and tap music offers a welcoming sanctuary for individuals navigating the complexities of faith and spirituality
God edition: Why I reject the hellfire doctrine
Does a God of love really torment people’s souls for all eternity in a place of flames?
‘Salvation is too big a word for me’
Drew Forrest examines the battle between dogmatic faith and practical humanism in French master Albert Camus’ finest novel, ‘The Plague’
The fallacy of politicians as saviours
They are as weak and flawed as the rest of us, so why do so many look to them for salvation, asks Des Erasmus
Let’s make a worthy God in our own image
If we make God in our image, let it not be the genocidal maniac worthy only of contempt but rather a God of kindness, worthy of our worship
God edition: Religion’s hard to believe in, I swear
But the full range of words linked to religion and godly figures have vastly improved our ability to express surprise, anger, shock and even hatred
The vulnerable experience of childbirth during war
When Hamas attacked Israel from the Gaza Strip on 7 October, I was nine months pregnant … what if I had been there?
Should we ‘be fruitful and multiply’?
This edited extract from Power and Faith by Ponthso Pilane explores the issues of religion, pregnancy and abortion
Faith helped build a free South Africa
Liberation theology helped shape the political discourse in our country, not only during apartheid but also in South Africa’s transition to democracy, writes Shipokosa Paulus…
Lose yourself in dance and music to heal
People often rely on antidepressant medicine alone, when the power of collective song and dance is a neglected channel for increased endorphins, dopamine and lowered cortisol