Money plays a large role in the lives of most people in the Western world. The contrast looms between the affluent person who needs to decide how to spend or invest...

Unemployment is a problem in many countries. I have known persons who have been retrenched, and I have seen its difficult effects. Many persons face crises about their worth and about...

A testimony given by the leader of a Lay Witness Mission team held the congregation spellbound. As he finished speaking, people were invited to come forward and commit their lives to...

The church my wife and I attend has a large candle on the Communion table that the pastor lights at every worship service before announcing a particular subject for prayer. The...

I write today’s meditation on a South African public holiday known as “Women’s Day.” As I write, people march in one of our major cities against the abuse of women and...

A church building in the center of a South African city had to be pulled down because its structure had become unsafe. It was a sad day, as countless preachers had...

There is a continual search after freedom of one kind or another throughout the world. In South Africa, the long search after political freedom eventually came in 1994. On April 27,...

Recently, I visited Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach, Florida. It is one of the United Methodist Church’s historically black universities. There, in the middle of campus, I found this epigraph written...

The theme of this week is “Returning to God.” With such a theme, we can’t help but think of death. Even though death is so close to us with reports of...