Current events Bible family
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
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
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 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
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.
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
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 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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