A friend writes in a book that his experience of the work of ministers can be best described as “hatching” (baptisms), “matching” (weddings), and “dispatching” (burials).
Author: Reverend Jan Scholtz (Reverend Jan Scholtz )
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Opinion | English translations of the Bible
Are you one who feels that the rolling cadences of Elizabeth English which we find in the authorised version are sacrosanct, or do you prefer the down to earth quality of the more modern translations? Are you like the little old lady who said: “If it was good enough for St. Paul then it is good enough for me!”
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Opinion | Reimaging the boundaries around us
In the physical world, boundaries are easy to see. Fences, signs, walls, moats with alligators and hedges are all physical boundaries.
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Opinion – What a happy life? Count your blessings
A philosopher friend remarked recently: “God must really love unhappy people, otherwise He wouldn’t have made so many of them”.
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Opinion – Effluent water: From burden to valuable resource
The use of treated effluent water for agricultural and mariculture purposes, although controversial, is a practice commonly utilised all over the world. Furthermore, the recycling and reuse of effluent water have increased significantly over the last four decades with transnational organisations like the United Nations and the World Health Organisation encouraging the reuse of treated...
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Opinion – Relevant youth qualifications aligned with trade opportunities
Technology is advancing; Climate is changing; Human innovation improves day-by-day, and it is our responsibility to keep up and make our mark. As the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau once said, “Dare to know, dare to know, dare to know, for our future and yours depend on your daring to know”. Aspirant Namibian youth should continually pursue...
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Opinion – The importance of the church in nation building
Namibia emerging from a traumatic past, and the process of rebuilding the nation is not going to be an easy one. The church in my opinion has a very important role to play in the whole process of reconstruction and development. The programme of the church as I see it will have as its main...
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Opinion – When women take charge of their livelihoods, the whole family benefits
There is a local saying in isiZulu “Uma ufundisa owesifazane, unfundisa umpakathi.” Loosely translated, it means: “When you educate a woman, you educate a nation.” Despite all the advancement in human rights and gender equality, women in our society are still regarded as “sub-humans” who are to be looked after by someone – dad, brother...
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Opinion – Getting your message across in sexual health education
At the moment, as sexual health educators, we have taken it for granted that the community reads posters and newspapers or listens to the radio regularly enough to get well informed on HIV/Aids in particular, and on sexually transmitted diseases in general. To one’s surprise, the number of those infected is still rising. Individual behaviour...
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Opinion – A tribute to Comrade Theo ‘the giant of the south’
In a time like this, our attention is always assembled in one place with a common goal of bidding farewell to our loved ones, and the day of today is not exceptional in remembering and bidding a deserved farewell to my beloved friend, a husband, a father, a brother, and a comrade to many of...