Author: Deji Okegbile

“Restore us, O LORD God of hosts; let your face shine, that we may be saved.” – Ps 80:19 Trumpism is a global phenomenon with a message of aggressive economic populism and religion of Consumerism. Trumpism political forces are happening all over the Western democratic world in form of a broader trend like Brexit where the post-World War II neoliberal global order is breaking down without any hope of human alternative, hence our hope in Advent. The age of Trumpism shaped by globalisation and new era of wealth inequality is beyond a new political agenda. In such an age...

Christ is King, what does that mean? If Christ is ruler over our lives … then my Nobel Peace Prize is less important than my trying to feed the hungry. If Christ is King, then my invitations to the White House are less important than that I visited those in prison. If Christ is Lord, then my being TIME magazine’s “Man of the Year” is less important than that I tried to love extravagantly, dangerously, with all my being (I Have a Dream, 191) – Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. The idea of Black Friday shopping with crowds swarming into...

For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse. For even though they knew God, they did not honour Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools. . .  [Romans 1:20-22]. American Thanksgiving Day was primarily a harvest holiday in colonial times in which the colonists offered thanks for a good harvest, sometimes by feasting, sometimes...