The Need for Steward Leadership in Times of Disruption

Allan Gray Centre for Values-Based Leadership

UCT Graduate School of Business

"The Need for Steward Leadership in Times of Disruption” – Webinar in the Allan Gray Speaker Series

The Most Revd Dr Thabo Makgoba

Archbishop of Cape Town

June 30, 2020

Introduction

Thank you, Prof Kurt April, for your kind introduction and welcome. Thank you all for joining me in my reflections as we seek together to make this world a better place for us, our children and their children.

Archbishop's Eastertide News & Reflections – St Joseph's Day

With KK after presenting him with the Archbishop's Peace & Justice Award.

Dear Parishioners, Clergy and Bishops

Today being St Joseph’s Day, we remember and pray for all the workers of the world, particularly because of the anxiety so many are experiencing as a result of the coronavirus, their loss of income and even their jobs. Pray especially for essential service workers who are caring for COVID-19 patients, emergency workers, the police and army and those who continue to grow, harvest, deliver and sell food to us. We also give thanks for the great epidemiologists and other medical exports which we have, and for the acquisition of supplies of personal protective equipment for our health workers.

A Homily for Easter Sunday, DStv Easter channel

The text of a homily preached in the Church of the Good Shepherd, Protea Village, at a service pre-recorded for the DStv pop-up channel for Easter 2020

Let me again welcome you very warmly to this broadcast service, which as I said in my introduction comes to you from a historic place closely associated with South Africa's oppressive past, with our elders' heroic struggle for freedom and now with our hope for the future.

At Easter, we emerged from the long days of Lent – no longer than usual in terms of days or hours but rather in the way it has reached into the depths of our anxiety, our fears, our sense of powerlessness and the limits of our knowledge, as the coronavirus runs rampant across the globe and into every community.

Homily for Easter Sunday, SABC Television

The Crucifix at Bishopscourt

The text of a homily preached in the Bishopscourt chapel and pre-recorded for broadcast by SABC 2 on Easter Sunday 

Readings: 2 Chronicles 7 verse 14; John 14 verse 1

Good morning!

And it is a good morning, because Christ is Risen! He is Risen Indeed! Alleluia!

A Happy Easter to you all, and a warm welcome to the chapel at Bishopscourt, the home of Anglican Archbishops of Cape Town.

The Bible readings I have chosen for today's homily, from the Second Book of Chronicles and the Gospel according to John, evoke images of the pestilences and plagues that have been inflicted on the world throughout history, but also speak of God's promise that if we humble ourselves and turn from our wicked ways, God will hear us and heal the earth.

[VIDEO] Ministering to God's People in a time of crisis

@ArchbishopThabo Makgoba appeals to the Church and especially to ordained priests and deacons to focus on drawing up pastoral plans for ministering to parishioners in the midst of the coronavirus crisis.