Reflections from the Zambezi

Introduction 50 years ago on 18 September 1961, in the thick forests of Ndola a plane carrying then United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld and other officials crashed and burst into flames. The Northern News (Northern Rhodesia's National daily Newspaper) dated 19 September 1961 then reported " The body of Mr. Dag Hammarskjöld, United Nations Secretary General, was found amid the wreckage of a UN plane  seven miles from here today. There was one survivor form the 14 aboard. Sabotage has not been ruled out. There is some official speculation that the plane may have been shot down ".  Dag Hammarskjöld was on a peace mission to Congo, where there had been fighting between rebels and the government. Who was Dag Hammarskjöld and what is his legacy as the world remembers him?  Dag Hammarskjöld  was a Swedish diplomat, economist, and author. An early Secretary-General of the United Nations, he served from April 1953 until his death in a plane crash in...

The 7th Annual Sola 5 conference started today in livingstone in Zambia. The theme of the conference is 'living God's way in God's world: Christians impacting culture. Bruce Button from the Sovereign Grace Theological Seminary in Lusaka, Zambia delivered the first sermon on the Cultural Mandate Expounded and Illustrated: the biblical basis for the cultural mandate. Bruce noted that the climax of the creation native in Genesis 1 was the creation of man. Bruce gave eight reasons why the creation of man is significant. Some of the reasons were: the space given to the narrative (Genesis 1:26-31) and the commission given to man, which was described as the climax of the climax of the creation narrative. Bruce also pointed out how the cultural mandate was restored in Christ as seen in Ephesians 1:21-2 and Colossians 1:15-20. The application of this was illustrated in Ephesians 6:5-9. Bruce emphasized that exercising dominion over creation was a very spiritual thing. Earlier Micha...