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Dion Forster, PhD, DTh
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Professor of Systematic Theology & Ethics, writer, runner, friend, VLOG youtube.com/dionforster PHD Sys Theol ('06) & PHD New Testament ('17)
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📷 It was a stunning cycle to work and back! Today was a summer day in the middle of winter - it was 26 degrees C in Stellenbosch today. (at Faculty of Theology, Stellenbosch University)...
It was a stunning cycle to work and back! Today was a summer day in the middle of winter - it was 26 degrees C in Stellenbosch today. @ Faculty of Theology, Stellenbosch University
📷 “The function of one generation is to make change possible for the next. The real function of each generation is to sow the seeds that will make a better world possible in the future.” - Joan Chittister, For Everything a Season...
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📷 Here is the YouTube recording of my inaugural lecture (the audio problem has been fixed). Thanks to Justin and the team! You can watch it here if you are interested: youtu.be/R3aYxC7gYto . #stellenbosch #StellenboschUniversity...
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📷 Thanks to Megie (Dr Darling!), Courts, Liam, colleagues, and friends! It was such a special evening! I am so grateful! Thanks to all of those who we able to attend the inaugural lecture, and those who joined online (apologies for the...
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📷 #RememberMarikana #Marikana “The church’s task is not simply to bind the wounds of the victim beneath the wheel, but also to put a spoke in the wheel itself.” - Dietrich Bonhoeffer Lord, use us to heal broken systems. Equip us with wisdom...
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📷 Yikes! I am getting quite nervous now! Tomorrow evening I will deliver my inaugural lecture. It is both exciting, and rather daunting at the same time! If you are free tomorrow, (16 August 2022 at 17h30, Cape Town time, which is GMT +2h),...
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Night Prayer: Lord, thank you that when we cannot make sense of things you offer us the peace that goes beyond human understanding; show us this week how we can live in communion with your peace-giving Presence, especially when we feel unsure and uncertain.
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Marikana massacre: South Africa needs to build a society that's decent and doesn't humiliate people
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Marikana massacre: South Africa needs to build a society that's decent and doesn't humiliate people theconversation.com/marikana-massa via #Marikana
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📷 My latest article was published today. In the article I commemorate 10th Anniversary of the Marikana massacre, and ask what it says about South Africa and South Africans today. You can read it here:...
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📷 “The quality of your faith will be judged by the quality of justice in the land; and the quality of justice in the land will be judged by how the weakest and most vulnerable groups in society (‘widows, orphans, and strangers’) fared while...
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📷 ‘I think a lot of us are not on a path; we’re in a rut. We have confused comfort with peace, belief with faith, safety with wisdom, wealth with blessing, and existence with life. And for many of us, our dreams will be buried under the...
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Thanks to those who joined us yesterday during our book launch. Prof Nadine Bowers du Toit - who edited the book gave copies to the contributors, the #FeesMustFall students on the cover, and to Dr Beryl Botman. The book is dedicated to the late Prof Russel Botman 📸
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📷 Congratulations to our colleague Prof Nadine Bowers du Toit with the launch of her book: ‘Faith, Race and Inequality among Young Adults in South Africa’ (available on Amazon amzn.to/3PVWjJ9 and Takealot). It was a beautiful...
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📷 This is one of the more important articles that I have written in recent years. It was published in a special edition on Public Theology in South Africa over the weekend. You can read it via the link below if you are interested....
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📷 #oldmanrunning spring has suddenly sprung (way too early! See the yellow flowers). It was a beautiful lunchtime run! (at Vergelegen Wines) instagram.com/p/CgZXFQFqle8/
#oldmanrunning spring has suddenly sprung (way too early! See the yellow flowers). It was a beautiful lunchtime run! @ Vergelegen Wines instagram.com/p/CgZXFQFqle8/
📷 My latest article has just been published. It deals with the important, but complex, relationship between religion and the state in a democracy. You can read it here:...
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📷 “Our present ecological crisis, the biggest single practical threat to our human existence in the middle to long term, has, religious people would say, a great deal to do with our failure to think of the world as existing in relation to...
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📷 We have another doctor in the house! Well done to Dr. Megan Forster who had an excellent PhD defense in Education Policy Studies today! We are so proud of her! 👩🎓🎓🙌❤️🎉🎊🍾🥳👏 Well done Megie! You worked so hard, and your commitment to...
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📷 Many blessings to all of our students, colleagues and friends as our second semester starts today! All of the best for your learning, teaching, research and service in this semester. Work hard, give it your best, and finish well! I am...
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📷 “American preachers have a task more difficult, perhaps, than those faced by us under South Africa’s apartheid, or Christians under Communism. We had obvious evils to engage; you have to unwrap your culture from years of red, white and...
