Religion & Society Blog

Christian values in relation to the verges outside one’s property

May 9, 2014
We – owners, tenants and business people – who are actually residing on a property in a residential area, need to bear in mind the importance of tidiness and the ultimate purpose of the verges and roads outside our properties. We, also, need to understand that these verges are part ...

Can religion solve mystery of climate?

February 20, 2014
As I was writing this instalment at the weekend in the dying hours of United Nations climate negotiations, hundreds of campaigners occupied the conference centre halls in Doha, Qatar, to call on countries to “Reject the Text”. It appeared two weeks of negotiations were not all rosy as the final ...

Shona Traditional Religion Explored

February 14, 2014
Shona Traditional Religion or Chivanhu is part of what is understood as African Traditional Religion (ATR) that is practiced all over Africa. It is a belief in God or Mwari or Musikavanhu. However, there is no direct communication between the living and Musikavanhu but through ancestors. The religion is based ...

In God’s image…No!

February 6, 2014
God created man in his own image? No! Man created God in his own image! To understand the important difference between these two diametrically opposed statements is to understand the problem with today’s church. Christians have an imagination of God: He is the Old Man who lives in an idyllic ...

Dancing’s role in church

September 11, 2013
The question of whether or not it is advisable for people to dance in church, or whether or not praise music that allows dancing has any value in it among today’s Christians is one that continues to linger in many people’s minds. One aspect of this is the idea that ...

Telling Africa’s religious story

September 6, 2013
Any Western journalist who’s spent time in Africa knows the usual reaction when a local bumps into one of us: “Why don’t you report any good news about Africa? Can’t you find something to talk about beyond Africans starving or killing each other?”   There’s also a Catholic version of ...

Photoessay: A Methodist sanctuary for Zimbabwe’s refugees

August 8, 2013
About 1 million Zimbabweans now reside in South Africa, accounting for about 7% of the population. The Central Methodist Mission in downtown Johannesburg has offered shelter and job advice to thousands of Zimbabweans fleeing political violence. All photographs by Charlie Shoemaker for The Wall Street Journal. See related stories Welcoming the ...

What ties Zimbabwe with Singapore.. apart from Mr President’s health issues

August 7, 2013
For most Zimbabweans, Singapore may evoke the only association — Mr Mugabe’s frequent visits there for — what some say are ever increasing — health check-ups. But there is a religious link between the Asian city-state and Zimbabwe — Sister Linda Sim, 58, a Catholic nun who earned a black belt ...

Read me, Zimbabwean Christians who shout about politics on facebook, log off and do nothing

July 7, 2013
I am finding that for as long as we keep shouting about staff and not taking part in the affairs of our country there will never be any change.There will never be any transformation in our nation of Zimbabwe. Democracy is for the people by the people. It’s not for ...

There may be need for a deeper investigation of the charity sector in Zimbabwe

June 24, 2013 by Giovanni del Autore
When you think of foreign charities you will ususally picture smiling faces of American or European adults passing on boxes of donations to Zimbabwean kids, even wider smiles on the faces of the latter. But it’s not that rosy if you read a recent CNN report “Above the law: America’s ...