Author: Deji Okegbile

The book ‘Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty co-authored by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson sets out to answer why some nations are more prosperous than others.[1] In their examinations of the causes of economic inequality, they conclude that nations fail due to underdevelopment ‘caused by political institutions and not by geography, climate, or other cultural factors.’ Why churches fail as a missional response to Why Nations Fail calls for a change the way we look at—and understand the role and place of the Church, Christ’s ekklesia in the world, the earthly ekklesia (Matt 16:13-20). The...

“… all the evil of the twentieth century is possible everywhere on earth” – Aleksandr Solzhenitsn Someone asked me recently, “Does the church still have moral ground to call the government to order?” A divided world shaped by therapeutic culture and ideology made of lies has conquered the churches, hence ‘the idea of bearing pain for the sake of truth seems ridiculous.’ The changing and jargon languages in world politics and secularisation imposes on the church and society controls the categories in which people think. Rather for the church to turn this divided world upside down with the powerful...