Author: Deji Okegbile

“OLODUMARE: God in Yoruba Belief,” Bible of African Religion and a master-piece for scholars: Patriarch Bolaji Idowu, 26 years after, we remember him.

“OLODUMARE: God in Yoruba Belief,” Bible of African Religion and a master-piece for scholars: Patriarch Bolaji Idowu, 26 years after, we remember him.

Posted by | Nov 27, 2019 | , , |

His Pre-Eminence Professor Bolaji Idowu, not merely a scholar but also a moral leader who had great impact on his own society was the third native-born leader of the Methodist Church Nigeria, serving from 1972 to 1984. He is also well known for his ethnographic and theological studies of the Yoruba people. Born on September 28, 1913 in Ikorodu, Nigeria, attended Baptist Boys’ High School, Abeokuta; Wesley College, Ibadan; Wesley House, Cambridge; and Wesley College, Headingly, Leeds. He worked and taught as the first Nigerian Head of Religious Department, University of Ibadan for twenty. He rose to become Professor...

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“REMAINERS” IN CHRIST: Beyond the Temporariness of Human Institutions.

“REMAINERS” IN CHRIST: Beyond the Temporariness of Human Institutions.

Posted by | Nov 21, 2019 | , , |

When we realise the brevity of our life and the temporariness of this world, reading Luke 21: 5-19 suggests more than ‘a springboard for proclaiming God’s judgement on society.’ The passage warns us about becoming too fixated on temporary human and political institutions. History goes in cycles. Today, millions are struggling to make sense of a changing world and declining churches especially when globalisation continue to suck patriotism and spirituality from the top. The sad news is that unconcerned leaders fed nationalism and spirituality to the bottom hence, as the first signs of the end times, people are easily...

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Error of Sadduceeism: Marriage at the Resurrection?

Error of Sadduceeism: Marriage at the Resurrection?

Posted by | Nov 14, 2019 | , |

The reputation of orthodoxy is no security against error just as error of Sadduceeism that arises from not knowing the Scriptures and the power of God goes beyond ancient times. Sadduceeism in relation to superior intelligence is fashionable today as of old ‘through the concessions of ignorance to this affectation,’ just as Phariseeism boasts superior piety. It is not every question, debate or conversation that searches for the truth just as the question of the one bride and the seven brothers by the Sadducees to Jesus was not a search for the truth. The hypothetical situation of the Sadducees...

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ALAUSA CHAPEL @ 20: Abiding Legacy of Lagos State Christians Civil Servants.

ALAUSA CHAPEL @ 20: Abiding Legacy of Lagos State Christians Civil Servants.

Posted by | Nov 12, 2019 | , |

The story of a church affords us the opportunity to see how God protected and preserved His people from the beginning to the present day so as to bring about the sure accomplishment of God’s redemptive purposes in Jesus Christ. The story and testimony of the Chapel of Christ the Light (Interdenominational), Alausa, Ikeja is about how God works in mysterious ways especially through committed Christian civil servants. For me to write about the history of the Chapel invites us to see through those acts of Christian commitment, selflessness, Christian unity and walk of faith by the likes of...

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OLOSU OF OSU, OBA JETHRO ADEJOLA @ 30 ON THE THRONE: RENEWING OSU DEVELOPMENT PLAN.

OLOSU OF OSU, OBA JETHRO ADEJOLA @ 30 ON THE THRONE: RENEWING OSU DEVELOPMENT PLAN.

Posted by | Nov 11, 2019 | , |

The search for a good and credible successor to Loja Omolade Adeyokuunu who in the early hours of 11th June, 1989, ‘answered the imperative call of death, having spent seventeen years on the throne’ and in whose reign ‘Osu attained the apogee of her greatness’ was not an easy task. According to Prince Adedire Arimoro, a notable scholar and historian, ‘with most of the intractable problems that had rocked the life of Osu community relatively ameliorated, there came the era of peace and tranquillity within the town. Therefore, it was not surprising to observers of Osu history when in...

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