In light of the rapidly changing religio-cultural landscape in South-Africa (as well as many places abroad), I’ve tried to imagine how the interaction between Jesus and many of our modern-day (woke or ‘progressive’) faith leaders would sound like in a 2021 setting – especially with regards to the church denomination I am a minister of … Continue reading ‘Progressives in conversation with Jesus’, or ‘Jesus says the darndest things’
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Money, sex and power – the fashionable fetishes of Critical theory
This post will serve as a very short and simplified introduction to the main tenets and, in my view, problems of critical theory. ‘Critical theory’ serves as the ideological umbrella for such over-used and -abused terms as: social justice, political correctness, identity politics and wokeism. It has become pervasive in our government structures (affirmative action … Continue reading Money, sex and power – the fashionable fetishes of Critical theory
An err-or of categories: How should we think of God when it comes to gendered descriptors
Recently the annual Stellenbosch faculty of Theology legitimation ceremony created a great stir amongst members and leaders of the Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa (DRCSA). The reason for this uproar was based on the description of God espoused by the two female preachers at the event. See the entire ceremony here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w45At8nNFIs&ab_channel=NGKerkStellenbosch-Wes The first … Continue reading An err-or of categories: How should we think of God when it comes to gendered descriptors
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