The Warehouse: Recent Episodes
The Warehouse
The Warehouse is an organisation based in Cape Town, South Africa, that is passionate about societal transformation through an engaged and justice-centered church. With this podcast we invite you to journey with us in discovering what following Jesus looks like within our contexts today.
In this episode we explore the idea of spatial justice as it relates to suburban churches- how churches are grappling with this concept, where some of the challenges lie, where hope is emerging, and what a fresh imagination could look like as we think about spatial justice in the context of 'the church on the corner'. These reflections emerge from Caroline Powell's recently completed master’s project on suburban churches and spatial justice.
In this conversation we chat to Liesl Stewart and Abby Plaatjes Fehrsen about their journey with the Good Food Club, a solidarity food purchasing community which seeks to challenge some of the injustices present within our food systems.
Check out this conversation with Sithembiso Zwane, director of UKZN's Ujamaa Centre for Biblical and Theological Community Development and Research. In this episode we chat about the history of Contextual Bible Study in South Africa, the bible as a site of struggle, how context influences the ways in which we read and interpret the bible, and how to read scripture faithfully as we grapple with the realities of our contexts and our commitments to follow the way of Jesus in the world.
In South Africa, both our history and our present is rife with stories of displacement and the destruction of home- from stories of forced removals with the group areas act, to stories of evictions under Covid-19 lockdown. In this conversation with Ntando Mlambo, Thami James, Precious Bikitsha, Sesihle Manzini, Ayanda Nxusani and Thandi Gamedze, we use this idea of displacement to think about the particular experience of black women in the church, and begin to explore what it might look like for such spaces to become home.
*Please forgive us for imperfect sound! This is our first attempt at a part-socially-distanced, part-zoom podcast.
Food has a crucial place in the wider systems of injustice that create poverty and marginality, thus if we are to re-imagine a liberated society, this is perhaps the most important place to begin. In this episode, Thandi chats to Zukile and Monwabisi about food systems, food security and theology. Our Father who art in heaven, give us today our daily bread...
Eight people (Ayanda Nxusani, Sesihle Manzini, Helene Visagie, Ashley Visagie, Wendy Lewin, Gillian Barlow, Lana Franks and Thandi Gamedze) who have been on a journey of collaboratively and reflectively reading Emmanuel Katongole's book, The Sacrifice of Africa: A Political Theology for Africa, got together to record a conversation to reflect on their journey through part one of the book, exploring what it might mean for the story of Christianity in our context.
In this episode, we chat to Ntando Mlambo and Caroline Powell -- both of whom are doing really interesting and important research into the topic of church land and spatial justice -- about spatial justice and how the church can engage and participate in this conversation in order to create spaces and cities that are more just and inclusive.
The Warehouse coordinates a network of church and faith-based organisation partners called RESPOND in responding to disasters largely local to Cape Town but increasingly further afield. In this episode we chat to Lester Cedras and Craig Stewart, who both play significant roles in the work of RESPOND, to unpack and engage with some of the dynamics in moments of disaster, some of the larger stories and realities in which disasters take place, as well as how the church can respond in ways that embody justice and dignity for all involved.
Last month we launched Rene August's book, Seeking Peace. This episode contains the interview that was conducted at the book launch with Rene about Seeking Peace.
This book uses the methodology of pilgrimage to deepen engagement with scripture through reading it in particular geographical spaces with diverse groups of people. It encourages an exploration of the Bible in conversation with both the historical and contemporary contexts, in order to help us live more faithfully as those trying to follow the way of Jesus.
Earlier this year we hosted a conversation exploring the Pentecostal movement, and the insights that it can give us in our work of justice. The conversation was hosted by Megan Schilder, and the panelists included Nadine Bowers Du Toit, Luthando Tofu and Jonathan Martin, three Pentecostals from very different contexts
Earlier this year we hosted a conversation exploring the Pentecostal movement, and the insights that it can give us in our work of justice. The conversation was hosted by Megan Schilder, and the panelists included Nadine Bowers Du Toit, Luthando Tofu and Jonathan Martin, three Pentecostals from very different contexts
In June we hosted an event seeking to celebrate the legacy of Black Theology and explore its gifts, its relevance and its shortfalls, and what we can learn from it as Jesus followers in our contexts. We heard a range of insights from various voices, including those of Nkosi Gola, Godfrey Harold, Tsakani Sibanda, The Legacy and Thandi Gamedze.
In June we hosted an event seeking to celebrate the legacy of Black Theology and explore its gifts, its relevance and its shortfalls, and what we can learn from it as Jesus followers in our contexts. We heard a range of insights from various voices, including those of Nkosi Gola, Godfrey Harold, Tsakani Sibanda, The Legacy and Thandi Gamedze.
In June we hosted an event seeking to celebrate the legacy of Black Theology and explore its gifts, its relevance and its shortfalls, and what we can learn from it as Jesus followers in our contexts. We heard a range of insights from various voices, including those of Nkosi Gola, Godfrey Harold, Tsakani Sibanda, The Legacy and Thandi Gamedze.
In June we hosted an event seeking to celebrate the legacy of Black Theology and explore its gifts, its relevance and its shortfalls, and what we can learn from it as Jesus followers in our contexts. We heard a range of insights from various voices, including those of Nkosi Gola, Godfrey Harold, Tsakani Sibanda, The Legacy and Thandi Gamedze.
In June we hosted an event seeking to celebrate the legacy of Black Theology and explore its gifts, its relevance and its shortfalls, and what we can learn from it as Jesus followers in our contexts. We heard a range of insights from various voices, including those of Nkosi Gola, Godfrey Harold, Tsakani Sibanda, The Legacy and Thandi Gamedze.
In June we hosted an event seeking to celebrate the legacy of Black Theology and explore its gifts, its relevance and its shortfalls, and what we can learn from it as Jesus followers in our contexts. We heard a range of insights from various voices, including those of Nkosi Gola, Godfrey Harold, Tsakani Sibanda, The Legacy and Thandi Gamedze.
In June we hosted an event seeking to celebrate the legacy of Black Theology and explore its gifts, its relevance and its shortfalls, and what we can learn from it as Jesus followers in our contexts. We heard a range of insights from various voices, including those of Nkosi Gola, Godfrey Harold, Tsakani Sibanda, The Legacy and Thandi Gamedze.
In June we hosted an event seeking to celebrate the legacy of Black Theology and explore its gifts, its relevance and its shortfalls, and what we can learn from it as Jesus followers in our contexts. We heard a range of insights from various voices, including those of Nkosi Gola, Godfrey Harold, Tsakani Sibanda, The Legacy and Thandi Gamedze.
In this episode, Thandi Gamedze and Nkosi Gola chat about Youth day, commemorating struggle, centring the voices and struggles of the marginalised, and organising for support of Early Childhood Development centres in townships towards the creation of safe, nurturing and educational spaces for the most vulnerable.
In the context of South Africa post-elections, Craig Stewart speaks about the church and its barriers to, and mandate for, engagement in the civic space towards bringing about the peace and justice of God in all of creation.
In this episode, Luthando Tofu, Linda Martindale, Nkosi Gola and Zenzile Molo chat about our current democratic system and its many complexities, asking important questions of how we as Jesus followers- and therefore seekers of a just and shalom-filled world for all of God’s creation- need to be engaging with it.
In this episode we give you a window into The Warehouse in 2019, as four different team members (Colleen Saunders, Luthando Tofu, Caroline Powell and Linda Martindale)share about some of the projects that they are excited to be working on this year.
A incredible conversation in which Zac Niringiye, Bishop in the Anglican Church in Uganda, and lifelong activist for social, political and theological justice, shares his wisdom and insight on the subject of the narratives which hold power in society, and how we can begin to disrupt them through imagining different realities, inspired by the life and example of Jesus.
In this episode we chat with Jarrod Mckenna about what it looks like to 'listen to the blood' that allows us to challenge dominant narratives and enter into a different story whose ink is the blood that speaks a better word and whose ending is the redemption of all things.
(please bear with us regarding the sound quality- we recorded in a corridor at a conference!)
In this conversation, Sandra Van Opstal, a second-generation Latina pastoring in Chicago but doing the work of reimagining the intersections of worship and justice globally, speaks about worship as formation, emphasizing the necessity of centering voices that are often marginalised in these spaces.
A powerful conversation with Ayanda Nxusani (currently doing research for her master's on the topic of intergenerational trauma) about South Africa and its realities of trauma, both past and present, as well as thoughts of what healing could look like, and what it means to be a follower of Jesus in light of these questions.
In this episode, Craig Stewart shares some insights into thought around development practice, and moving from a rational reductionist worldview, into one that recognises complexity and the implications of this for the development practitioner.
In this episode, Stephen De Beer from the University of Pretoria's Centre for Contextual Ministry, speaks about spatial justice, its theological foundations, and the key role that the South African church can play in bringing it about.
In this episode, Nkosi Gola and Thandi Gamedze have a conversation about some of the church's beliefs today, the origins of these beliefs, and the impact that they have on the ways in which we engage our society. They explore the need for the decolonisation of minds, beliefs, and faith practices, in order to truly live as Jesus did.
A conversation with Siyamboleka James, the leader of Sweet Home Farm, Phillipi, and Barry Lewis, an architect and founder of UBU, a dialogical community development organisation. Barry and Siya reflect on the conception and journey of Sweet Home Farm, community transformation, and development that mobilises instead of disempowers.
Nkosi Gola and Wendy Lewin reflect on the story of Joseph, and explore some of the lessons we can learn from it regarding responding to the Cape Town (and beyond) water crisis in ways that embody the idea of loving our neighbour as Jesus taught it.
A conversation with Rene August and Nkosi Gola looking deeper into the story of the Good Samaritan within its historical, political and cultural context, and exploring what this story has to say to us in our contexts today.
In this episode, Rene August and Nkosi Gola speak into the concept of decolonising scripture, understanding that our reading and interpretation of the Bible is often heavily influenced by narratives spun by dominant powers.