We’ve just passed our 100th day of living Down Under, not including 14 long days spent in COVID-19 quarantine on arrival. In the last 3-and-a-bit months we have moved country, parachuted into a new town, started new jobs and had a third child… because #YOLO. How it is going? I…

It has been many months since the RZIM report on Ravi Zacharias’ lurid activities was released and I’m not ready to move on. While casually scrolling through my Twitter feed in late 2020 I came across the link to RZIM’s bombshell statement on the investigation into Ravi Zacharias’ sexual exploitation…

2020 was, to say the least, unexpected. Very little of what we had planned came to pass, and yet looking back it has been a full year for us. Cath started the year working an array of public and private hospital slates at a handful of local hospitals. The onset…

Have you been running around your garden in circles for 7 days? Or maybe you’ve had a half-hearted attempt at a couple of lunges on you lawn. There’s a better way! If you are committed to the #MzantsiChallenge please stop reading — I salute you, and hope you succeed. This…

Mass victim hood might be the phenomena our generation is remembered for. Identity groups everywhere seem fixated on the forces and threats challenging their power. Few celebrate the resources and opportunities within their sphere of control. …

To borrow a high school rowing analogy. In a rowing race, over anything longer than 500m, the race is made up of a brief beginning, long middle portion finishing with a big push. The beginning is characterized by furious, short strokes to get up to speed. The middle of the…

I have been dwelling on the good gifts passage in Matthew for the last few days. Now that I am the dad giving my kids good gifts its given me fresh appreciation of this text. If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your…

Going through last years letter prior to writing this update, its fun to see how much of the anticipated change has played out. Yet the broad strokes of family life remain the same. We have been in Cape Town for a year now! I still feel a fraud singing the…

My work within the church sphere means that I am exposed to a lot of updates from churches and the people who lead, work or volunteer within them. The stories being told are usually rousing. They are stories of trial, endurance, courage and breakthrough. They usually take the form of…