Book Review: Mark Gevisser – Lost And Found In Johannesburg

Book Review: Mark Gevisser – Lost And Found In Johannesburg

By BRUCE DENNILL   Mark Gevisser has done something quite substantial with this book. It’s an intellectual treatise that reads like a relaxed memoir, and examination of the difficulties involved in coming to terms with both his homosexuality and the changing...
Book Review: Louis Giglio – I Am Not But I Know I Am

Book Review: Louis Giglio – I Am Not But I Know I Am

By BRUCE DENNILL   Pastor, writer and music label head Louis Giglio is driven by a calling to minister to young people, with college-age kids the major focus of The Passion Movement, which he founded. Much of Giglio’s reputation is based on his ability to take...
Music Review: Shaun Jacobs – Love Can

Music Review: Shaun Jacobs – Love Can

By BRUCE DENNILL   There’s no idiomatic phrase, using the same imagery anyway, to describe the process of coming out from “under the radar”, but that is what Johannesburg-based singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Shaun Jacobs is currently doing. That it...
Music Review: The Civil Wars – The Civil Wars

Music Review: The Civil Wars – The Civil Wars

By BRUCE DENNILL   Following up on the near-perfection of a full debut like Barton Hollow was never going to be a simple matter, especially when the band went through some difficult in-house politics – a bigger issue than usual when there are only two people...