Confluence
A blog by benbyerly
Blog description:
Current events Bible family
Blog Rank:
Confluence ranks 243 in Africa and 17 in Kenya. According to site visitors it ranks 301, and 351 according to page views:
According to blogroll links it ranks 830 and 625 according to the amount of links within Afrigator blog posts
Refuting the “Global Christianity” paradigm? (Wuthnow)
Raise your hand if you believe the following statements are true. 1) In 1970, Christianity was a predominantly Western movement, but by 2000, surging growth in Africa, Asia, and Latin America meant that the majority of Christians lived outside the West. 2) While Christianity in the United States was
The Western Captivity of African Christianity (Black)
Yesterday I introduced Bill Black’s blog, Onesimus Online, but I thought his posts related to The Western Captivity of African Christianity deserved a little more attention (especially for those of you that are skimming titles; I see Eddie beat me to it . … however well-intentioned our motives,
Onesimus Online: a blog to stir your thinking (Bill Black)
Ask any of Bill Black’s students here about him, and they will probably say: “he provokes; he really challenges us to think.” Thankfully, for the rest of us, Bill blogs at Onesimus Online: history, theology, culture, the church, and other dangerous stuff. If you are at all interested
Our collective amnesia about Kenyan (and African) histories (Eve)
On her nacent blog, Quill-Squeak, Eve writes about African history. …As i think about the stories i have heard from my father and grandfather, it surprises me that someone would think that Africans have no history. Although these “savages” roamed around naked with no seeming sense of rational organisation
He’s baaaack!!! The blogger formerly known as Sibboleth (Kirk)
I’m happy to announce that Daniel Kirk (the artist formerly known as Sibboleth) has returned to blogging at “Storied Theology: Telling the story of the story-bound God.” His first post Communal Story & the Face of God. As a New Testament scholar and a blogger, he writes: …My guild
The New Testament is a short book; know it’s context (Keener)
…the NT is a short book, as far as scholarly disciplines go, and NT scholars ought to know its context better [Hengel]…It is simply naive to take a document written to a particular ancient setting, written in Greek, using figures of speech and cultural allusions that were shared assumptions
My day in Kibera’s law court
I’ve lived in Nairobi (“Nairobbery” for some) for almost five years and never once been robbed (though many of my friends have been) or arrested (though my friends have negotiated for me at least twice–once for not having “life savers” (reflective triangles), before I knew we were supposed to.
Money, Power, and Radical Incarnation—a model for missions (Mur
A little over a week ago, Pastor Oscar Muriu spoke at Urbana–a giant (16-20,000) missions conference for primarily American college students. Money and Power: Oscar Muriu from Urbana 09 on Vimeo. For more Urban09 videos, click HERE (We had the privilege of hearing most of it at Nairobi Chapel
Ken Shenk has some harsh words for Carson, Beale, and Piper and t
In Who’s a scholar, Ken Shenk (Dean of Wesley Seminary at Indiana Wesleyan University) has this to say: …It seems like whenever a study or trajectory of real significance arises, some “conservative”–meaning someone resistant to change–then commissions a counter-study to address it. Such counter-studies, far from actually disproving the
No matter how original a scholar’s imagination, . . .
“No matter how original a scholar’s imagination, no matter how penetrating and critical his judgment, society does far more of the writing of any book that lives than the author himself.”[1] However humiliating it may be formulate such a principle, its justification scarcely requires demonstration. We can no more
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