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For Bulelwa Mpinda, worship is not an accessory, it is survival.

Young & Spiritually Inspired: A 15-year movement turning pain into purpose

Born from its founder’s journey of abandonment, healing, and faith, Young & Spiritually Inspired is a global movement using words, worship, and community to restore hope and lead…

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Maleh on music, faith, and her artistic rebirth

Maleh’s path as a musician has evolved into a journey of faith, self-discovery, and artistic honesty, charting a deeply personal creative course

Refound belief: Donovan E Williams at his Confirmation at the Mater Dolorosa Catholic Church in Johannesburg at the age of 50. Photo: Velile Mhlungu

The God Edition | Losing my religion to find my faith

One writer’s journey through activism and grief led him back to the altar — on his own terms

Gathering in harmony: Young women of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church in South Africa’s Sedibeng Youth Choir get together for church practice.

Finding home in clap and tap music

Clap and tap music offers a welcoming sanctuary for individuals navigating the complexities of faith and spirituality

Sign of the times: Political leaders sometimes inspire fanatical devotion. Former president Jacob Zuma at the St John Apostolic Church in Johannesburg is flanked by Reverend John Molefe Moloi and Archbishop Daniel Mathe. (Lucky Morajane/Gallo Images)

The fallacy of politicians as saviours

They are as weak and flawed as the rest of us, so why do so many look to them for salvation, asks Des Erasmus

Faith-baiting: Flowers are laid to respect the victims of the Crocus City Hall terrorist attack in Krasnoyarsk, Russia, for which Isis has claimed responsibility. Photo: Contributor/Getty Images

Let’s make a worthy God in our own image

If we make God in our image, let it not be the genocidal maniac worthy only of contempt but rather a God of kindness, worthy of our worship

Pregnant with meaning: Pontsho Pilane’s memoir Power and Faith: How Evangelical Churches Are Quietly Shaping Our Democracy explores the churches and how their beliefs affect everyday lives. Photo: Stephane de Sakutin/AFP

Should we ‘be fruitful and multiply’?

This edited extract from Power and Faith by Ponthso Pilane explores the issues of religion, pregnancy and abortion

A huge crowd of South Africans celebrates the victory of Nelson Mandela in the 1994 Presidential election.   (Photo by David Turnley/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images)

Faith helped build a free South Africa

Liberation theology helped shape the political discourse in our country, not only during apartheid but also in South Africa’s transition to democracy, writes Shipokosa Paulus…

Circle of life: Place it on the Altar by Boitumelo Diseko. The artwork symbolises the New Testament God sacrificing his only son for our sins, so that we may be saved.

Portfolio: Boitumelo Diseko, artist and gallerist

Boitumelo Diseko has married her love of art and business by opening the B Artworks Gallery

Two participants embrace before joining more than 1000 people, some in dramatic costumes, in the annual Cape Town Pride Parade through the centre of the city, which takes place to celebrate and raise awareness on the issues affecting , Cape Town’s LGBTI+ community, on February 26, 2022, in Cape Town. (RODGER BOSCH / AFP)

‘‘My queerness is a gift to my community of faith”

Gomo Lesejane’s work has allowed her to find resonance in the stories of people like her who could never fully embody their queer identities in temples, churches, mosques and…

Buzzing: Mokgadi Mabela founded Native Nosi after she couldn’t keep up with her former colleagues’ orders for her dad’s honey and she needed to secure her own supply. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Q&A Sessions: Meet Mokgadi Mabela — the DJ, beekeeper and mother delivering sweet, sweet honey from Native Nosi

Mokgadi Mabela is the bee lady whose love for good honey has blossomed into a business. She tells us about her genius dad and her late introduction to bees