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 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 Paul Msiza | Jan 26, 2017 | Opinion
I am a South African, born and raised during the difficult dark days of apartheid. The most tragic story about South Africa is that the church was used to propagate and sustain the policies of segregation. Even though South Africa had produced awesome leaders who...
by Robert Parham | Aug 4, 2015 | Opinion
The Baptist World Congress was a splendid overall success, despite lower than desired attendance due to fears of Ebola and xenophobia in South Africa toward other foreign workers. The fellowship was warm. The worship was energizing. The workshops were substantive. The...
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...
