Chris Moerdyk

I was enormously surprised to see the results of a poll a few weeks ago showing that a massive majority of the almost 20000 South Africans who...

Something for which I will forever be indebted to my long-suffering parents was their ability to keep completely straight faces when, at the tender age of eight,...

The region of Tuscany in Italy is a place where, in spite of my heritage having no Italian connection whatsoever, I feel comfortably at home and very...

When President Jacob Zuma announced that billions of rands worth of taxpayers’ money was going to be spent on creating jobs, I gave him the thumbs up. ...

My youngest son was about two years old when his great mission in life was to escape from the cry-room and get in among the pews in...

There is, of course, no question about the motivation anyone should have for going to church: it is about two or more of us gathering in his...

I have always been enormously intrigued by Lent. As a child I didn’t much like it because I had to give up something nice and the quality...

Bringing up children isn’t easy. In fact, one of the most remarkable feats of human nature is to be able to raise a child without going insane....

There is no question that modern technology saved hundreds of thousands of lives during Japan’s devastating earthquake and tsunami.

It was a cold and rainy day in Rome. Ominous black clouds raced over the Eternal City bringing joy only to the river Tiber in anticipation of...