Many Rivers to Cross
Here we are at the dawn of 2021. We arrive here with trembling shoulders and the heels of our feet charred by the flames of yesteryear. Where...
Church / Crisis / Nthabiseng Maphisa
by Nthabiseng Maphisa · Published January 27, 2021 · Last modified January 24, 2021
Here we are at the dawn of 2021. We arrive here with trembling shoulders and the heels of our feet charred by the flames of yesteryear. Where...
Church / God / God & Salvation / Nthabiseng Maphisa
by Nthabiseng Maphisa · Published January 2, 2021 · Last modified December 26, 2020
I wonder what it’s like to spend a day at the office with God. Who takes the calls? Are there meetings in boardrooms? How’s the coffee? Is...
Christian Living / Church / Dealing With Life / God / Nthabiseng Maphisa
by Nthabiseng Maphisa · Published December 8, 2020 · Last modified December 7, 2020
I am a big fan of the television commercials produced by a local fast-food chicken franchise with a rhyming name that is neither Portuguese nor from the...
Christian Living / Church / Nthabiseng Maphisa
by Nthabiseng Maphisa · Published November 26, 2020 · Last modified November 28, 2020
To this day, I wonder where the saying, “Curiosity killed the cat”, came from. Did the cat drown in a river while peering over a bridge? Did...
Church / Crisis / Eucharist / Nthabiseng Maphisa
by Nthabiseng Maphisa · Published August 24, 2020 · Last modified August 21, 2020
Once I thought it was only a symbol, that by looking at it I might know in part who Christ is. I thought it a great scandal...
Christian Living / Church / God / Nthabiseng Maphisa
by Nthabiseng Maphisa · Published August 4, 2020 · Last modified August 1, 2020
News networks around the globe seem determined to swallow up the horrors of the world and to vomit it out in thirty-minute reports on their channels. It...
Church / Crisis / Nthabiseng Maphisa
by Nthabiseng Maphisa · Published June 2, 2020 · Last modified June 1, 2020
Well, here we are. We find ourselves sitting on the benches in an arena as spectators to a fight between world leaders and this most unwelcome virus....
by Nthabiseng Maphisa · Published April 14, 2020 · Last modified April 12, 2020
In times of old, there were those who would utter a single word to cast a spell. There were those who would wave a wand and by...
Christian Living / Church / Nthabiseng Maphisa
by Nthabiseng Maphisa · Published March 10, 2020 · Last modified March 9, 2020
There are various kinds of lies—and a gentle light is not enough to reveal Truth, writes Nthabiseng Maphisa. In the blackness of the night, amidst the whispers...
Christian Living / Church / Nthabiseng Maphisa / Religious Art
by Nthabiseng Maphisa · Published February 11, 2020 · Last modified February 6, 2020
I have recently begun to study the different periods in art history. None have brought me to as much awe and admiration as the works seen in...
Christmas / Nthabiseng Maphisa
by Nthabiseng Maphisa · Published December 30, 2019 · Last modified December 20, 2019
It’s that time of the year again. There has been overeating and overshopping. The malls were filled with children and teenagers. There was the clamour of trolleys...
Christian Living / Church / Dealing With Life / Nthabiseng Maphisa
by Nthabiseng Maphisa · Published December 3, 2019 · Last modified December 1, 2019
It all started with a conversation at lunch with my fellow interns. The question on the importance of making one’s bed arose. “I always make my bed,”...
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