Recently Graeme Codrington spoke at TGIF (Thank God it’s Friday), a Christian discussion group that meets at the (ungodly) hour of 6:30am every Friday morning in Gauteng, South Africa. It is available for downloading, by right clicking here and selecting save as. It’s about 7.5 Mb in size.
The content is a version of his […]

Antoine heads up African Enterprise in Rwanda. He gave this talk at the Amahoro conference in Uganda in May 2007. He talks about part of the problem for Africa:
“The African contradiction is that the very same people who have hatred in their hearts towards others, especially ethnic hatred, still go to church. This includes […]

Originally posted at Regeneration by Graeme Codrington.
I have known Terry Rae since I was 8 years old. My father moved to Rosebank Bible College as a lecturer. Terry was senior pastor at Rosebank Union Church, where I was a member until I got married. I was best friends with his son, Andrew throughout my teen […]

A sermon by Graeme Codrington, preached in October 2006.
This morning, I preached a sermon at Bedford Chapel, just around the corner from my home. The topic was “The Kingdom of God is now”. This comes as close to being my personal manifesto as you can get. If I had to write it […]

A message by Claude Nikondeha delivered at Amahoro Gathering in Uganda in May 2007
Claude grew up in Burundi constantly hearing that “Jesus is coming back…soon.” He relates a story of a young girl who, when telling her pastor she wanted to go to school to get an eduction, was told that her Christian duty was […]

A sermon by Graeme Codrington preached in May 2007. His notes are here. I think it’s an appropriate way to start the new year: by taking about fear and hope.
Living in South Africa right now is not for sissies. The country’s transition to democracy has been miraculous on one hand, and yet is fraught […]

Dr Kenzo Mabiala gave a brilliant talk at the first Amahoro conference in Uganda in May 2007. Graeme Codrington recorded this on a handheld recorder - it’s worth persevering through the low quality because this lecture is sheer genius. Kenzo says that theological work done in Africa has the imperative to differ from theology from […]

The Christian community globally has begun, in the last ten years, grappling with the philosophical, theological, and hermeneutical issues associated with the postmodern turn in philosophy and culture. But the other side of the coin is the postcolonial conversation. This conversation requires us to grapple with issues of justice and with the ways in which […]

Deshun Deysel has been described as the only black female high alititude mountaineer in the world. She grew up in Uitenhage close to Port Elizabeth and was part of the Sunday Times Everest Expedition in 1996 as well as the Discovery one in 2003. She had to turn back an agonising 350 metres from […]

I’ve known about podcasting and have downloaded a few, but the thing that tipped it for me was meeting Tim Pynes who let me sit in on his interview with Andrew Jones about the connections between the emerging church conversation and the house church network. Tim had a great setup (2 mics and a recorder) […]