Month: October 2021

BLACK HISTORY AND COP26 CLIMATE SUMMIT: THE PEOPLE FIRST BEFORE THE PLANET

The history of the Black race is about testimonies of communities and people that are more climate-resilient. It is a sad story and memory that the Black race climate-resilience has turned to climate and environment-regrets. One of the major climatic hazards to the Black race is the devastating and disfiguring impacts of environmental and climate racisms. Climate change as a culture-killer especially to the Black race forces cultures to adapt or die because it shifts and disrupts human, plant and animal habitats. Environmental and climate racisms promotes loss of ‘the cultural important species on which traditional knowledge depends,’ hence...

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CULTURAL LEGACY OF COLONIALISM, BEYOND THE RETURN OF STOLEN AND LOOTED ARTEFACTS: Overcoming Coloniality of Power.

Africa was the wellspring for the birth of Atlantic world and the creation of the modern world. African civilization and history has been recorded before the eve of colonial conquest of the continent. The interruptive and destructive natures of the colonial transatlantic slave trade that steal, kill and destroy African civilization remains a tragic memory till date. The pre-colonial Africa was spiritual, civilised, organised, intelligent, hospitable, and hard working. Pre-colonial Africa was home to thousands of vibrant, dynamic cultures populating all parts of the vast continent. The classic Nile valley civilizations of Egypt, Nubia, Kush, and others parts was...

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BARTIMAEUS’ CRY OF FAITH: EYE-OPENER FOR SPIRITUAL BLINDNESS

Jesus is the answer for the world todayAbove Him there’s no other, Jesus is the wayJesus is the answer for the world todayAbove Him there’s no other, Jesus is the way – Andrae Crouch A cry that issues from the heart is like prayer, the breath of faith. The blind Bartimaeus is not an anonymous. He has a name and a face. Bartimaeus’ cry of faith opens our eyes to our need for Jesus and the dangers of being spiritually blind. Beyond the physical blindness of Bartimaeus, spiritual blindness is more tragic. Spiritual blindness can leave nations, family and church...

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‘WHATEVER WE ASK’ REVERSAL AGENDA: IDENTIFYING WITH JAMES AND JOHN.

The Gospel reading from Mark, just after a rich young man approached Jesus continue with the ambitious reversal agenda of James and John (Mk 10). In their conversation with Jesus, James and John were on reversal agenda. Their request was mainly to reverse Jesus’ selflessness with their selfishness and self advancement hierarchical leadership structure. The disciples’ reversal agenda resonates with the domination of others which remains fundamental themes in our religions and politics today. In God’s upside-down world, family, and church, everything is reversed. In a form of worldly negotiation, James and John took Jesus aside and said to...

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THE WAY OF THE NEEDLE’S EYE: REVERSING IDOLATRY IN OUR POPULAR CULTURE.

It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God – Mk 10:25 The Gospel tells us that Jesus came ‘preaching the kingdom of God.’ The kingdom represents a reversal for us. The way to inherit the kingdom of God is exclusively the way of the needle’s eye in contrast to the broad popular way. In Mark 10 and other two Gospel accounts, Jesus used humorous comparison of a ‘camel to go through the eye of a needle’ (Mk 10:23-27, Matt 19:23-26, Lk...

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