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Christian South Africans thinking in the open about culture, ethics, literature, Scripture and God in our context.

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In Defence Of Satire

In Defence Of Satire

In Between Two Worlds, John Stott defines satire as a literary device or tool that uncovers folly. It subversively exposes the fallen human condition, which tends to make us resist...

Graham Heslop
08 Oct 2020

Irony Abounding to the Chief of Persia

I few weeks back I posted in the wake of completing Robert Alter’s The Art of Biblical Narrative, noting his method and drawing out some theological conclusions. The experience implicit throughout...

Graham Heslop
02 Apr 2014