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Go Tell It on the Mountain: An October Witness
“The years of our life are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty” (Psalm 90:10). So prayed Moses, measuring the brevity of days...
Johan du Toit
17 hours ago3 min read
Living and Writing in Ukraine Today
It is the silence I notice most. Not the quiet of peace, which is open and full of breath, but the held silence between sirens, which is...
Johan du Toit
2 days ago2 min read
Memory, Legacy, and a Promise Kept
The moment is etched into the canvas of my consciousness. I stood at a bus stop on the road to Berlin, the anonymous hum of traffic in my...
Johan du Toit
2 days ago2 min read
On Resilience: A Refusal to Cede the Last Word
Resilience is not a word I pluck from a textbook, nor a slogan for a poster. It is the sound of sirens that cleaves the night at two in...
Johan du Toit
2 days ago2 min read
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