Author: Reverend Jan Scholtz (Reverend Jan Scholtz )

The 40 days period before Easter is commonly known as Lent. This season is normally marked by sacrificing something (usually in the form of food) to reflect the state of one’s penitence. Lent also provides a time for purification.

The family is a fundamental social unit. It plays a role in the determination of the character, values and structure of society, which is fully acceptable by all men and women of insight and vision.

This is the fourth instalment on a series of articles on ‘The Major Tools of Leadership’. This week’s article focuses on Leaders Pray.

Where do we begin in building a diverse community – church family? As children, we sang,

I woke this morning thinking: It would be nice to wake up and have someone bringing me coffee in bed and magically have a big-screen TV in my bedroom and already on my favourite channel – which by the way is HGTV or SS2.

A few weeks ago, I was invited to attend the debate on the Namibian constitution.

My cousin’s memorial service in December brought me back to my childhood church in Lüderitz, the church he had joined in 1978.

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). 

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!”

In the physical world, boundaries are easy to see. Fences, signs, walls, moats with alligators and hedges are all physical boundaries.