It is difficult to talk about death in the African context. The very mention of it causes fear as it is seen as ‘gutheetha[1]‘ – wishing for it to happen. In our traditional understanding, death is sinking into the unknown, the abyss of all reality, the unfortunate end of life, and joining the ancestral spirits … Continue reading
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Elijah Men Eat Meat [review]
Joshua D Jones, pastor of Therfield Chapel, Cambridge, UK, blogger at Sanity’s Cove, vlogger at Counterfeit Vlog, has written a great devotional for our times. The title is a bit strange but the content is spot on – punchy, Reformation-style preaching in 80 short chapters like a volley of flaming arrows. Elijah The focus of … Continue reading
The Reformation as the mother of modern science
Steve Fuller (Auguste Comte Chair in Social Epistemology, University of Warwick, UK) in his foreword to a new book, describes the way in which the Reformation in Europe 500 years ago opened the way for and may even be said to have birthed modern science. But he goes further to describe how, just as the church … Continue reading
Reformation Conference at EBC Nairobi
Book Now Ekklesia Afrika: In our efforts at EBC Nairobi to encourage and equip pastors we have started a ministry that we are calling Ekklesia Afrika. Ekklesia Afrika is a ministry that seeks to meet a primary need among African pastors by providing them access to much needed theological resources in form of books, electronic … Continue reading
The new state
We’ve looked at a couple of themes in this post-post-modern condition – the new truth and the new morality. The third theme – the new state – flows from and enforces the previous two themes. In a nutshell, the new state tends towards populist totalitarianism. An important caveat Before going on though it is important … Continue reading
The new morality
The agenda of the New Atheists was never simply to promote science and materialism over and against religious belief and super-naturalism (though that was core); it was also the promotion of a new morality: an attempt to show that religion was not only untrue but bad and that atheistic humanism can produce a superior morality … Continue reading
The new truth
Post-modernity was open to any narrative, any ‘truth.’ If you wanted to say there were fairies at the bottom of your garden then that was ‘an interesting folk perspective worthy of narration’ (and worthy of a PhD or two exploring the polyvalence and intertextuality of this tradition). In fact post-modernism was suspicious of science because … Continue reading
Post-post-modernism
The death of post-modernism has been announced by a number of cultural commentators. In 2006 Alan Kirby wrote an article in Philosophy Now called, ‘The death of postmodernism and beyond.’ Another British writer, Edward Docx, in a 2011 article for Prospect Magazine, ‘Postmodernism is dead,’ noticed that a London museum was putting on a ‘retrospective’ … Continue reading
The purpose driven life?
Really helpful piece from Peter Muturi on the danger of ‘purpose’ language turning inward. What is your purpose? I have been trying to figure out where the idea of “living your purpose” began in Christian circles. At face value it sounds good and is true because we are greatly loved and cherished (not because we … Continue reading
The Pulpit versus the Stage
In the new issue of Conversation Magazine, David Ewagata brilliantly tells the back story of the current stand-off between the Church and the Gospel Music Industry. Get hold of that copy and read his article. Great analysis and the point about lack of mentoring is especially sharp. A few other things to throw into the … Continue reading
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