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10/09/2026

What does it mean to be South Aftican?

Want to go deeper than the podcast? Become a Reasonable Christianity partner and get the weekly companion resources that...
09/09/2026

Want to go deeper than the podcast? Become a Reasonable Christianity partner and get the weekly companion resources that help you work through the ideas, engage with Scripture and put what you’ve heard into practice, starting with The Authority Audit, this week’s companion to Who Gave You the Right to Rule?

08/09/2026

UPDATE: South Africa Unmade, my new book, is available on takealot!

Who gave you the right to rule?That question has been at the heart of my thinking while writing South Africa Unmade.We s...
07/09/2026

Who gave you the right to rule?

That question has been at the heart of my thinking while writing South Africa Unmade.

We spend so much time arguing about WHO should govern. I think we need to step back and ask a deeper question: what gives anyone the right to exercise authority over us in the first place?

In WHO GAVE YOU THE RIGHT TO RULE?, I explore South Africa’s history, our constitutional settlement, traditional authority, and what Scripture actually teaches about government and legitimate authority.

Because if authority ultimately belongs to God, then no government is beyond accountability.

And that matters right now, as South Africa prepares for another election.

I’d really like you to listen to this one and tell me what you think.

The link to the episode and the link to South Africa Unmade are both in the comments.

The book launches 29 September 2026 and is already available for pre-order on Takealot.

The conversation starts here.

🇿🇦 SOUTH AFRICA IS SICK. BUT SICK IS NOT DEAD.Our country is sick socially, economically and morally. But I still believ...
04/09/2026

🇿🇦 SOUTH AFRICA IS SICK. BUT SICK IS NOT DEAD.

Our country is sick socially, economically and morally. But I still believe the dream of a united, prosperous and morally healthy South Africa is possible.

And with any sickness, the first step toward recovery is an accurate diagnosis.

That is why I wrote South Africa Unmade.

I believe this book offers an honest and necessary diagnosis of where we are and how we got here. Now I want to get its message in front of as many South Africans as possible.

So, I’m inviting you to join the South Africa Unmade | First Readers group (Link in the comments)

🎁 The first 100 people to join will receive the eBook FREE.

All I’m asking is that you:

READ. REVIEW. RECOMMEND.

Read the book.
Review it honestly.
Recommend it to someone who needs to read it.

This isn't simply about launching a book. It’s about starting a conversation about the future of our country.

If you care about South Africa, join us.

👇 Be one of the first 100 First Readers.

🇿🇦 READ. REVIEW. RECOMMEND.

LINK TO THE GROUP IN THE COMMENTS

WHAT HAPPENED TO SOUTH AFRICA?There are some questions that stay with you. For me, one of them has been: What happened t...
03/09/2026

WHAT HAPPENED TO SOUTH AFRICA?
There are some questions that stay with you. For me, one of them has been: What happened to South Africa?

I grew up in a country that, in 1995, seemed to be standing at the beginning of something extraordinary. Apartheid had ended. A nation was learning to imagine a shared future. There was genuine hope that reconciliation, justice and freedom could become more than political ideals.

Over the years, experience complicated that hope.

I watched our democracy encounter corruption, institutional decay, failing infrastructure, economic hardship and the erosion of public trust. I began asking how a country filled with so much promise could arrive at this point.

HOW DID WE GET HERE?
That question eventually became South Africa Unmade: A Christian Diagnosis of Post-Apartheid Governance and National Decline.

I wrote this book because I believe Christians have a responsibility to think carefully about the world God has entrusted to us. Scripture gives us categories for understanding authority, justice, stewardship, human dignity, sin and the common good. Those truths belong in our understanding of public life.

Writing this book has also been humbling because South Africa's failures cannot simply be placed at someone else's feet. We are all human beings, capable of courage and sacrifice, while also being deeply vulnerable to selfishness, corruption and self-deception. That reality matters when we examine power and history.

So, this journey began with a question I could not shake, and it became something I needed to understand. Eventually, it became something I felt compelled to write.

NEW PODCAST EPISODE
🎙️ South Africa Unmade: Why I Wrote This Book
The prelude episode of the Reasonable Christianity podcast is out now. Link in the Comments.

If you care about South Africa, the future we are leaving to the next generation, or what it means to think Christianly about public life, I invite you to listen.

I don't claim to have every answer. But I believe some questions are important enough to pursue faithfully, carefully and courageously.

And perhaps the question that began this journey will become yours too:

What happened?

How do you know if you are above reproach?Most people think it means you have never sinned. It doesn't. And that misunde...
26/08/2026

How do you know if you are above reproach?

Most people think it means you have never sinned. It doesn't. And that misunderstanding has quietly wrecked how we treat leaders who fall.

The Greek word Paul uses, anepilemptos, was a courtroom word. It meant a man against whom no charge could be made to stick. Not a man with no record. A man with no legitimate accusation still standing against him.

So here is the real question, and it is harder than the one we usually ask. Not, have I ever failed my household. Every man has. The question is, is there something true and unresolved right now, something that has never been brought into the light, confessed, and answered by real change?

And if the answer is yes, the second question follows close behind. What does the road back actually look like?

I built a companion resource for our Patreon Partners this week that sits with both of those questions properly, because an argument on its own does not change a household. It takes work.

Ten honest questions make up the first half, not about whether you have ever sinned, but about whether there is a legitimate accusation still standing against you today. Meant to be worked through slowly, alone or with your wife, before you ever turn them toward someone else.

Five stages make up the second half, laying out what an honest restoration process actually requires. Confession that names the sin plainly. A real season of removed responsibility. Accountability that can actually tell you no. Fruit that takes years, not weeks. A return, if there is one, that is gradual, never sudden.

This was written for fathers, for husbands, for elder teams who may one day have to walk a brother through exactly this.

📄 Get the full companion resource. Link in the comments.

Because the truth matters. And so do you.

When a pastor falls, is he finished?Watch how differently Christians answer that, and you will see two errors pulling in...
25/08/2026

When a pastor falls, is he finished?

Watch how differently Christians answer that, and you will see two errors pulling in opposite directions.

On one side are believers who wave moral failure away as if it were nothing. The teacher fell, but look at the anointing, look at the crowds, look at the miracles. Think of what people like Mike Winger have spent years exposing in corners of the charismatic world, the leaders whose obvious sin is excused because the platform is too valuable to lose. That is a real error, and it wounds real people.

But there is an opposite error, and it is held by serious, godly men. Justin Peters, whom I genuinely respect, argues that a leader who falls sexually is disqualified from ministry permanently. Not for a season. For life. And I have come to believe, after sitting with the text for a long time, that this overreaches what Scripture actually teaches.

It all turns on two words. Above reproach. Paul says an elder must be above reproach (1 Timothy 3:2), and we have quietly assumed that means morally flawless, without failure, a spotless record. But does it? Because Paul uses that exact phrase somewhere else, and not about elders at all. He tells ordinary believers, the whole assembled people of God, that Christ died to present them holy and blameless and above reproach before Him (Colossians 1:22). So either the phrase does not mean sinless perfection, or not one of us qualifies for anything. What if above reproach was never about having no sin, but about having no accusation that still legitimately stands, the kind that repentance and time and real accountability can actually answer? Remember, Paul tells Timothy to publicly rebuke those who persist in sin (1 Timothy 5:20). The persisting is the problem, not the falling.

And underneath all of it is a deeper question, the one I think we keep getting wrong. What is the ekklesia, really, the called out people of God? Because if it is an organisation, then a leader who fails is a CEO who underperformed, and you remove him, and that is the end of it. But Paul does not call it a company. He calls it the household of God (1 Timothy 3:15). And if the ekklesia is a family, a household, then a leader who falls is a father who sinned. A family does not fire a father. It holds him accountable, it grieves, it waits for something real to grow, and when someone is caught in sin it moves to restore him gently (Galatians 6:1), not to bolt a door God Himself has left open.

I love the men caught on both sides of this. The ones treated as though they never fell, and the ones treated as though they can never be anything again. This episode is for both of them.

Listen now. Link in the comments.

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Is divorce a sin?Is a Christian allowed to remarry after divorce?I cannot ask that question coldly. It matters too much,...
17/08/2026

Is divorce a sin?

Is a Christian allowed to remarry after divorce?

I cannot ask that question coldly. It matters too much, because of what marriage is, and because of how deep the wound of divorce actually cuts. And it matters to me for a reason I cannot put down. I love two brothers in Christ who have each walked through that wound, and I have watched them walk away from it in opposite directions.

One of them has become convinced that he, and every man like him, can never marry again. Not for a season. Ever. His reverence for the covenant is real, and part of me honours it. But he has taken up a sacrifice and laid it on his own shoulders for the rest of his life, and I keep asking, quietly, whether God ever asked him to carry it. Awe is a beautiful thing. But awe can bind a man to a burden the Lord never placed on him.

The other brother went the other way. He married again much as he married the first time, and the choices that helped unmake his first marriage were the same choices standing at the door of his second. Where the one holds the covenant so high he cannot move, the other holds it so loosely it keeps slipping through his fingers.

One brother grieves me because he may never taste a gift God might have given him. The other grieves me because he keeps reaching for the gift without reverence for the Giver. And I love them both.

So what is the faithful thing? Not the easy answer the world hands out, and not the harsh one either. What does Christ actually require of a person standing in the ruins of a marriage, wanting to honour Him?

That is the whole of this week's episode. It was not born from a debate I wanted to win. It was born from two men I love, and a question I could not stop carrying because of them.

🎧 Listen now. Link in the comments.

Because the truth matters. And so do you.
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