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Called to serve
Two South African bishops this week raise two quite different and yet intimately linked problems concerning vocations. Read more…
Objecting with care
As we prepared for Easter, a sculpture of Christ’s crucifixion In New York City by Canadian artist Cosimo Cavallaro, reportedly a devout Catholic, caused a spat in the United States. Read more…
How is another world possible?
I have been thinking about the two family life themes, “Children give them love,” and the theme for April, “Love brings children to God.”
In my family ministry, I spend a fair amount of time thinking and at times agonising about these topics. Although it is the Easter season, a season of joy and new life, I’m afraid it is still an agonising time for me, partly brought on by the following episode. Read more…
The Admiral’s Wife – Fr Kevin Reynolds
The Admiral’s Wife and Other Stories: Reflections and Reminiscences, by Fr Kevin Reynolds. Self-published. 2007. 87pp.
Reviewed by Günther Simmermacher Read more…
Newsboys – Go
CD REVIEW
After a couple of worship albums, Australia’s contribution to the world of contemporary Christian music returns to its rock roots. Read more…
Zimbabwe after Mugabe
Only the most deluded apologists for Robert Mugabe would dispute that his regime is facing several inextricable crises. Read more…
Let our gospel influence be felt
The Church’s mission is to influence the world to personalise Gospel values. More than ever before, Christians in South Africa have a chance to influence government and society to adopt values espoused by Jesus Christ. Read more…
John Legend – Once Again
CD REVIEW
At a time when R&B has gone blandly corporate, most albums in the genre consist of four decent songs and a barrel of fillers. Not so with John Legend, possibly this decade’s most skilled male soul artist.
And a soul singer he is, like the great legends (ahem) who clearly influenced him: Marvin Gaye, Al Green, Stevie Wonder, Luther Vandross at al.
As on his debut, Get Lifted, Legend still draws much inspiration from ’70s soul. But more than on the first album he manages to fuse modern R&B with old style soul, creating a warm vibe, complemented by his reassured, mellow voice and delivery which eschews the ostentatious vocal acrobatics pervading the genre. Read more…
Here’s the Good News
Executed with Jesus on Jerusalem’s rubbish tip on the hill called Golgotha were two unnamed criminals. One of them, whom tradition has named Dismas, repented for his sinful life and asked Jesus to facilitate his entry into paradise. Read more…
You probably are a criminal
Trying to look for answers during the recent intense public debate on crime in this country, a rather alarming thought struck me: how is South Africa going to halt moral degeneration when even a majority of readers of The Southern Cross are criminals? Me included.
How many of us can truthfully say that we have never parked our cars illegally, used our cellphones while driving, allowed our dogs to roam the streets, watched a pirated DVD, gone faster than 60km/h in a built up zone, or overtaken someone on a solid white line? Read more…
