Can we do with less?
In his famous book, The Road Less Travelled, the US psychiatrist M Scott Peck argues convincingly that suffering and facing...
Emmanuel Ngara
Will the king’s people find their way home?
In this column we are going to learn about a community that wandered away from its roots and made a...
We need ubuntu for the whole world
In previous columns we discussed human selfishness; how religion has sought to draw the individual away from the self and...
Rethinking the role of education
Education has always had a central role to play in human development. In traditional societies, young men and women are...
How believers must treat others
In the previous column we discussed the destructiveness of human selfishness. In this article we shall examine briefly how religion...
How self-centred we are
In last month’s column I asserted that unless the hearts and minds of people in positions of influence are changed...
The rise of capitalism and communism
In my last column I referred to the irony that despite the symbols of human development that we see everywhere,...
Unravelling the mystery of crime and corruption
There is no other species on earth that has the capacity that humans have to develop themselves and transform their...
Christian faith and African tradition
At a conference held recently on spiritual direction, I asked the question: To what extent can we accommodate traditional African...
