Philosophy of ‘Ubuntu’ is important to the founding myth of the new South African nation.
Anthony Egan, S.J.
Anthony Egan, S.J., contributes from Johannesburg.
Posted inIn All Things
Letter from South Africa: The Oscar Pistorius Case
For North American readers the case offers a number of “anomalies” that need explanation.
Posted inFaith, Politics & Society
The Founding Father: Nelson Mandela and the re-creation of South Africa
How did this man so profoundly capture the aspiration and passion of an entire nation as he did mine that day in May 1994?
Posted inBooks
Orphaned by the Superpowers
The major culprit for the disasters in Africa is none other than foreign involvement claims the distinguished journalist Mark Huband First came the European colonialists who delineated territories according to their political interests and then either created or exploited cultural differences am
Posted inBooks
Spirit Versus Nature
Combining archetypal psychology ecclesiology and ethics Eugene Kennedy in his latest book The Unhealed Wound sets out a disturbing vision of church malaise rooted in the distorted transference of sexual energy into power and manipulation Kennedy uses the analogy of the wounded Grail King of the
Posted inPolitics & Society
Dealing With Terrorism
Where does terrorism come from and how far ought any government go to both defeat terrorists and protect citizens’ rights, not least their right to life?
Posted inBooks
More Than Bible-Thumping
With their eyes so set on heaven Protestant Evangelicals either are unconcerned about such earthly matters as politics or their vision of a world rooted in a literal interpretation of the Bible makes them move in right-wing circles As a result they are the strategic allies of dictators multinat
Posted inOf Many Things
Of Many Things
Faced with a growing pro-democracy movement led by intellectuals, journalists and the labor movement, King Mswati III of Swaziland (a small African country surrounded by South Africa and Mozambique) has cracked down on dissent and declared a state of emergency. Press censorship, arrest of dissidents
Posted inBooks
Letting History Speak
Early Christian history takes on a decidedly postmodern turn in this new-in-paperback work by the Cambridge classicist Keith Hopkins In style reminiscent in parts of Gerd Theissen rsquo s Shadow of the Galilean Christology in the form of a novel and Dutch Edmund Morris rsquo s biography of Ronal
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The Peace of Jerusalem
Nine years ago, amid higher levels of political violence than had ever occurred before, white South Africans went to the polls. This was not an election but a referendum: should the negotiation process initiated in February 1990 continue? The result was an overwhelming yes. Somehow we realized that