Dr Hephzibah Egede
Hephzibah is assistant pastor of RCCG's Garden of the Lord parish in Cardiff where she serves together with her husband.
A bond of common humanity
2 November 2020Old wounds of racial and ethnic hostilities have resurfaced in the industrialised north this year. The world watched and heard George Floyd utter his last words, “I can’t breathe,” which sparked protests and calls for racial justice for black and minority communities in the US and in other countries in the industrialised north. The developing south has also had its fair share of ethnic and religious violence, resulting in significant loss of lives and devastation. The state of the world…
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Justice and mercy: A contemporary Christian perspective
31 August 2020Victims want things to be put right. They want corrective justice. Like the widow in Luke 18, victims seek for their voices to be heard. Corrective justice is not the only form of redress available to victims. There are other types of justice including restorative and healing justice described in several scholarly works such as Duncan Forester’s book Christian Justice and Public Policy. According to Forester, restorative justice recognises that both "perpetrators and victims require…
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