-
Twenty years ago, on a trip to South Africa, I picked up a copy of Noel Mostert’s ‘Frontiers’. This tells the tragic story of the ‘kaffir wars’ in which first the Dutch settlers and then the British Empire subjugated the Xhosa people. Read more -
Out for a run in the woods the other day Grace tripped over a root hidden in leaves and fell. Read more -
I have an oddly vivid memory from my teenage years of learning that God wasn’t my friend. The revelation came when I heard that a church elder had declared the song ‘Draw Me Close to You’ to be ridiculous because of the line ‘I lay it all down again, to hear you say that I’m your friend.’ ... Read more
- Page ‹ First < 66 67 68 69 70 > Last ›