Current events Bible family
Confluence ranks 439 in Africa and 33 in Kenya. According to site visitors it ranks 331, and 431 according to page views:
According to blogroll links it ranks 2267 and 1504 according to the amount of links within Afrigator blog posts
Dr. Tokunboh Adeyemo passed away last night. Among many other accomplishments, Dr. Adeyemo was the editor of the Africa Bible Commentary. Moses Owojaiye, a Nigerian Student here at NEGST, has written a very nice tribute on his blog – Christianity in Africa. You can read more about Dr. Adeyemo
Ken Schenck has started writing a paper in which he states that …in the end, only two approaches to the biblical text are coherent: 1) a historical-contextual approach and 2) reader-centered approaches that locate meaning (or “experience” of the text) in relation to specific readers and communities of readers.
Tucked in his ongoing series of blog thoughts on Douglas A. Campbell’s, The Deliverance of God: An Apocalyptic Rereading of Justification in Paul, my favorite New Testament scholar says, …Now I know that on many of these issues you don’t think Ed Sanders has gotten things as straight
I know this is an ad, but I enjoyed watching it, and I thought some of you with West Africa in your blood might enjoy watching it and feeling nostalgic too: 6:43mins./34.8MB (so only a privilege for those with enough bandwidth). Special thanks to Emeka Okafor, Africa Unchained for
The Big Lie about the “Life of the Mind” (Chronicle of Higher Education) …The ranks of new Ph.D.’s and adjuncts these days are mainly composed of people from below the upper-middle class: people who believe from infancy that more education equals more opportunity. They see the professions as a
I haven’t flown over the Ituri forest in Congo since I was a child over thirty years ago; Google Earth tells me that it is still there but shrinking. In my recent travels to the US, I couldn’t help feeling like I was seeing far more trees and forests
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
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,
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
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
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