Who is Man? What’s his nature? Is he primarily a spirit who has a soul living in a body or is he a living soul? Is he merely material or more?
Category: Worldview
When the Rich tax the Poor
As I think about what is going on in Uganda with this social media and Mobile Money taxes, I am reminded of Nathan’s parable to David after the latter’s wicked acts in 2 Samuel 12.
So, Where is Your Treasure?
In His famous Sermon on the Mount recorded in Matthew chapter six, Christ categorically surmised that where a man’s treasure is, there also shall be his heart.
Uganda Martyrs, the Church, and the State
Tertullian, that great Church Father from North Africa once remarked that the blood of Christians is the seed (for the Church), for ‘the oftener we are mown down by you, the more in number we grow.’ He crafted his work Apology as a response to the calamitous persecutions of Christians by the Roman empire.
How Dishonoring the Sabbath Leads to the Disintegration of Society
William Farrell in his book The Myth of Male Power surveys how the often decried ‘Patriarchal’ system was harder on the man than is commonly acknowledged. He speaks of how men in history have been the dispensable sex, expected to do the most menial works in the harshest of realities, even to the detriment of their health or death, and often not respected or recognized for doing so.
… How Dishonoring the Sabbath Leads to the Disintegration of Society
He Came, He Died, He Rose
He came, He who eternally has been
The Maker of the visible and invisible
On earth He always was, yet unseen
And now God as Man is touchable
Is Christianity ‘Good News’ for the African? (Part 1)
One persistent objection raised against Christianity by ‘Pan-Africanists’ is that African Christians serve a foreign God, a white man’s Wanga. To them, Christianity is nothing more than a medium of residual cultural imperialism and neo-colonialism.
The African Identity of Lactantius, Augustine, and Tertullian (Part Three)
Having before discussed the contributions of Africa to global Christianity here, we come back to my main question. Did Lactantius, Augustine, and Tertullian, identify themselves as Africans? Or were they ‘merely Europeans in disguise’?
… The African Identity of Lactantius, Augustine, and Tertullian (Part Three)
The African Identity of Lactantius, Augustine, and Tertullian (Part Two)
Christianity has always been at home in Africa, right from when our Savior found residence in Egypt till now. The story of how early Christianity came to Africa varies, but it is not hard to imagine how seeds were sown. Northern and Eastern Africa have always been open to Jerusalem, and the thought is that there existed Hellenistic Jews as far as Libya even before Christ was born.[1]
… The African Identity of Lactantius, Augustine, and Tertullian (Part Two)
The African Identity of Lactantius, Augustine, and Tertullian (Part One)
Many leading figures of Christian thought and faith who were born and raised on the African continent self-identified as African, despite the influence and privileges of the Roman empire, and contrary to the arguments set forth by some western academic scholars.
… The African Identity of Lactantius, Augustine, and Tertullian (Part One)