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	KWABAKA - A story of compassionate care in a rural Zulu community *Jon Larsen* Isandlwana, Zululand, November 1879: A young couple arrived to set up a mission station next to the battlefield. They lived out their productive lives in the area. The Charles Johnson Memorial Hospital was established to commemorate their work. Read More....
	Broken Bodies and Healing Communities *Neville Richardson* The book not only contributes to the academic debate about the pandemic but it provides a tool that needs to find a space in every household, as this would directly contribute to the government's as well as to the Religious Leaders' Awareness Campaign Read More....
	Journeying for Justice *Compiled by the PACSA 30th anniversary collective* What moves ordinary people to risk their comfort for the sake of others? What moves people to remain hopeful in times of despair? What moves people to take great risks to act against their oppression? Read More....
	African and European Readers of the Bible in Dialogue *Hans de Wit and Gerald O. West* Far too long, the relationship between European and African biblical scholarship has been a nonrelationship. Divergent insights into how biblical texts should be interpreted and made fruitful for the current context, cultural differences, colonial past and post-colonial future, radically different social situations - this all made companionship and real interaction difficult. Read More....
	The Calling: The Story of a Pioneering Woman Priest *Nancy Charton Edited by Dr W H Meyer* The issue of women’s ordination still occasionally makes the news. The controversy over women Bishops in the 2008 Church of England synod is a case in point. Within the Roman Catholic and Orthodox Churches the struggle continues despite growing evidence of the full ordination of women to the diaconate during the first four centuries of Christian history.Read More....
	The Other Side of the Story *Dr George Sombe Mukuka* The view which is generally held among South African Catholic historians is that the first black priests and the first African bishop in South Africa, had tremendous trouble settling down after their ordination and consecration because Africans were not yet ready to be priests and bishops. Read More....
	Anglicans against Apartheid *Bob Clarke* In the course of his ministry as an Anglican priest in South Africa, Bob Clarke worked in parishes and in ecumenical contexts and as a Church History lecturer. He was deeply involved in ministry to people detained without trial, as well as in confl ict resolution and monitoring South Africa’s fi rst democratic election in 1994. Read More....
	Empandeni Interlude, Journal of a Woman Missionary *Sr Biddy Rose* Journal of a woman missionary. Josephine Bullen SND de Namur at the turn of the Century in Rhodesia Read More....
	Making Ends Meet *Klaus Nurnberger* Personal Money Management in a Christian Perspective Read More....
	A Biblical Vision for Africa's Development? *M T Speckman* Few would use the Bible for correcting the socio-economic imbalances of human societies. Almost none however, would use it as a basis for socio-economic development. Yet, in this ground-breaking book, McGlory Speckman does exactly that. Read More....
	Women, Religion and HIV/Aids in Africa *Teresia Hinga, Ann Kubai, P.Mwaura and Hazel Ayanga, Editors* Each contribution to this volume has added a valued and unique perspective of analysis to the AIDS crisis and its implications for the women of Africa. All the authors agree that the HIV/AIDS crisis is urgent, complex and life threatening to women. Each goes beyond the biological and epidemiological dimensions of the disease to name the scandal of stigma as a major factor in the ethical challenge posed by HIV/AIDS. Read More....