What do you do to be involved in the community? To stay active in my community is not simply a matter of physical presence. It is a philosophical choice—to remain engaged, to refuse apathy, and to insist that the small rituals of care and resistance still matter, even when the system insists otherwise. I write. I write with the urgency of someone who knows silence … Continue reading What Do I Do to Stay Active in My Community?
I remember reading Laudato Si’ not as a Catholic encyclical, but as a manifesto smuggled into the open—one that spoke of climate not as weather but as wound, economy not as growth but as theft. Pope Francis called for “ecological conversion,” but that phrase has always struck me as misnamed. Because it is more than personal transformation. It is political defiance. In a world where … Continue reading Ecological Conversion as Political Resistance
Blessed Mhlanga is out. After seventy-two days of caged breath and cold concrete, after two humiliating bail denials and a nation’s stunned indifference, a judge has finally decided that the crime of journalism does not warrant indefinite punishment—at least not officially. He was released Tuesday 06 May on US$500 bail. But make no mistake: what has ended is not the injustice. Only the prelude. Because … Continue reading The Bail of a Man, the Silence of a Nation
Zealous Thierry 