Urban Ministry Live And Unplugged

I took this photo exactly four months before the death of my wife Mirjam -- here leading the Church's Women's Association. She said ...

Back in 2007, we did a survey of women with children in our Church. This was in an urban environment. The most obvious thing here (see the g...

This photo came to be very popular on the Internet: a photo of wife E, who found a new way to wear an academic cap. Graduations will never b...

Back in 2018, I designed an "incredibly sensitive" magnetometer (said the publishers). It was published in Silicon Chip Magazine i...

My tales of life on the far side of Africa continue. I ordered three printed mugs for Christmas, one with the ALL BLACKS logo. "Twenty ...

My late wife Mirjam died of an incurable and basically untreatable cancer at the beginning of 2011. The BBC reported today that they have re...

I liked this shot I got of the provost of the Baptist Seminary on Saturday -- wearing Gucci glasses, looking like James Bond, and surrounded...

I asked this young lady, "Can I have a photo?" She said, "No!" I said, "Well, that's it, then. You can't h...

Back in the day, in high school, we would directly observe radioactive scintillation -- individual nuclear disintegrations -- through a spi...

I attended a graduation ceremony today, as a member of faculty. As is so typical of South Africa, this crowd swelled by another half before ...

At a loss as to what to post tonight, these are coals for making roosterbrood , or roast bread -- a country favourite in South Africa. The d...

This is a rare photo of me. Someone took this photo of me last month invigilating exams -- or about to invigilate exams -- at seminary. I wa...

Years ago, I wrote in my journal about three cultural blind spots I found in multi-cultural congregations. 1. One was the “unseeing eye”. Fo...

My neighbours bought themselves a new sound system and turned up the African beat. This sound level meter reading shows the volume at my sid...

The last time I was in Europe, earlier this year, I found that Europe had a nasty edge to it now. People were too often treated as mere comm...