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Money, Power, and Radical Incarnation—a model for missions (Muriu, Urbana 09)

Ben wrote 9 hours ago: A little over a week ago, Pastor Oscar Muriu spoke at Urbana–a giant (16-20,000) missions conf … more →

Tags: Missions, poverty, Oscar Muriu

Raising Awareness: Korah, Ethiopia6 comments

Rod wrote 2 days ago: Let bronze be brought from Egypt; let Ethiopia hasten to stretch out its hands to God. Psalm 68:31 T … more →

Tags: libération, Liberation Theology, Africa, Ethiopia, Help Korah, Korah

Early African Theologians on Christian Nonviolence2 comments

Rod wrote 1 month ago: Tertullian is a man after my own heart. And if I lived in the third or fourth centuries, I would def … more →

Tags: Patristics, Church-state separation, pacifism, GLBT Issues, Christian Politics, Early Christianity, Africa, Homosexuality, GLBTQ

Nollywood’s booming Christian film industry

Ben wrote 2 months ago: Nigeria: Christian movie capital of the world (CT): Nollywood recently surpassed Hollywood in film p … more →

Tertullian the African

Celucien Joseph wrote 3 months ago: Tertullian the African: An Anthropological Reading of Tertullian’s Context and Identities by D … more →

Tags: African Theology, Patristic Fathers, Tertullian, Theology and Identity, Theology and Culture

Systemic challenges facing African theologians3 comments

Ben wrote 3 months ago: Following are some of my own observations about some of the systemic challenges my colleagues face i … more →

Tags: Evangelical, Missions, Theology, African Theology

African theology's window of opportunity6 comments

Ben wrote 3 months ago: Like the theology of the early church fathers, genuine African (Christian) theological reflection ar … more →

Tags: Africa, african traditions, Biblical Studies, Early Christianity, global christianity, Missions, Theology

Ethiopian New Year16 comments

Ayanna Nahmias wrote 3 months ago: Today is the New Year for Ethiopians.  The unique thing about Ethiopian traditions and calendar obse … more →

Tags: Ethiopia, Memoir Shorts, Art, Africa, Music, beta israël, Islam, Christianity, Interfaith Issues

Africa the new centre of Christianity?3 comments

John wrote 4 months ago: I have heard some of these stats before and read something similar in Philip Jenkins book “The … more →

Tags: South Africa, Africa, Philip Jenkins, Mark Noll

Athanasius's Case agaist the Military- Industrial Complex

Rod wrote 4 months ago: 6.But when they [the Greeks and Barbarians] have come over to the school of Christ, then, strangely … more →

Tags: Christianity, Salvation, Peace, Matristics, Patristics, Old Testament, Prophets, Empire, Eastern Orthodoxy

Athanasius on the Empire of God 1 comment

Rod wrote 4 months ago: 3. And like when a great king has entered into some large city and taken up his abode in one of the … more →

Tags: Incarnation, GOd's Word, God's Reign, Matristics, Patristics, Empire, the empire of God, Eastern Orthodoxy, Athanasius

Around the Blogs 10 comments

Celucien Joseph wrote 4 months ago: Bill Heroman on Johannine Historiography Claude Mariottini on the Serpent Was Right Christianity’s A … more →

Tags: The Gospel of John, Around the Blogs, peacemaking, spirituality, megachurch, blackness, Gospel Nonviolence, Jesus and women, Paul and Jesus

Vince Campell on the African roots of early Christian theology4 comments

Rod wrote 4 months ago: Professor Soong-Chan Rah, author of The Next Evangelicalism, had a guest post on his blog today.  Vi … more →

Tags: Incarnation, calvinism, Matristics, Patristics, Evangelicalism, Empire, Eastern Orthodoxy, John Calvin, Jacobus Arminius

Look what's emerging1 comment

Steve wrote 4 months ago: This morning I wanted to have a look at the Emerging Africa blog to see what’s emerging in Afr … more →

Tags: Christianity, Africa, blog hijacking, Emerging Church

Visitors at Vespers

Steve wrote 5 months ago: We had a couple of visitors at Vespers at St Nicholas Church in Brixton last Saturday evening … more →

Tags: Christianity and Culture, South Africa, Africa, Orthodox Church, vespers, Friends

5 books that helped shape how I read the Bible3 comments

Ben wrote 6 months ago: I’ve been tagged by Karyn Traphagen with a book meme: Name 5 books or scholars that had the most imm … more →

Tags: Biblical Studies, Books, Culture

More on Amahoro2 comments

Steve wrote 7 months ago: My previous post on the Amahoro Conference, Truth, reconciliation and smelly feet, covered the sessi … more →

Tags: Christianity and Culture, Christianity, South Africa, Emerging Church, Africa, Society, Missional Church, xenophobia, makwerekwere

Amahoro: cultural imperialism3 comments

Steve wrote 7 months ago: Roger Saner posted a couple of interesting pieces on his blog recently in preparation for the Amahor … more →

Tags: Missiology, Christianity, Religion, Monasticism, South Africa, Africa, mission, Orthodox mission, Alaska

The eagle and the African missionary

Ben wrote 7 months ago: [A story from my brother-in-law’s newsletter.] "Hello friends!" The stranger was beckoning … more →

Tags: Missions


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