by Jemar Tisby | May 23, 2024 | Feature-, Opinion
Editor’s Note: The following first appeared in Dr. Jemar Tisby’s Footnotes Substack. Tisby is a Good Faith Media Contributing Correspondent. Even as a historian, I am still discovering bits of the past that I did not know. In a recent conversation, someone offhandedly...
by Wendell Griffen | Dec 30, 2021 | Opinion
Archbishop Desmond Tutu passed from life in God’s love among us to life in God’s love beyond us on Boxing Day 2021 in his beloved South Africa at the full age of 90. As befitting a Nobel laureate, Desmond Tutu is remembered throughout the world as a courageous,...
by Allan A. Boesak | Dec 30, 2021 | Opinion
Editor’s note: The following sermon was was preached on Oct. 7, 20201, during a Desmond Tutu Birthday Eucharist Service at St. George’s Cathedral, Cape Town, South Africa. Dear family and siblings in Christ, what a great idea this was to have this eucharist in...
by Vinoth Ramachandra | Mar 28, 2017 | Opinion
Helen Zille, the former leader of South Africa’s main opposition party and the current premier of the Western Cape, recently tweeted, “For those claiming legacy of colonialism was ONLY negative, think of our independent judiciary, transport infrastructure,...
by Brian Kaylor | Jul 27, 2015 | News
South African leaders spoke during the Baptist World Congress about the nation’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) that helped the nation’s transition from racial apartheid. With the Congress meeting in Durban, South Africa – the city where...
