A dominant Roman cultural influence that shaped ancient Corinth was the pater familias: the power exerted by the oldest living male in the household. His control was not only legally sanctioned but often autocratic and even violent. In such a family, one did not question authority, one did not haveContinue Reading
North-West University Professor J. M. Vorster’s The Gift of Life: Towards an ethic of human personhood (2021) represents a crowning of his career as a Reformed pastor, theologian, and ethicist in the South African context. I review this volume as a fellow office-bearer within the Reformed Churches in South Africa (RCSA) withContinue Reading
The AM service will be streamed on YouTube here at 9.30am. AM liturgy :: Call to worship/ Call on God’s name for help by reading: Psalm 121 “Our Father, with the Psalmist we lift up our eyes to the hills and we cry: Where does our help come from? AndContinue Reading
2016 RCSA Extraordinary Synod on Women in Office (12-16 January 2016) After 30 odd years of wrestling with the matter, RCSA Extraordinary (General) Synod 2016 takes the solid majority and decisive decision not to open up the office of elder and minister to women. (Not a single petition of protestContinue Reading