As dangerous as religious radicalisms appear to be, there is even another subtle type of extremism that we all must be wary of, and strive to balance, if not completely prevent from becoming disintuned ..
In the part one to this piece, we started to look at the strange logic in fundamentalist thinking. In this piece we examine the various ways by which believers think with and make expressions of their ..
Women are in trouble–in this men’s world. Women of color are in much more bigger and worse trouble. As the first person of color, first woman elected to the Kentucky State Senate and first ..
According to reports, there are 1.5 billion violence victims in the world today. That figure has since increased since this piece was first drafted over a year ago. In Nigeria the occurrence recurrence, ..
In June of 2008, I re-presented a paper on religious crises in Nigeria. The thesis of the paper, which originally was presented at the Metro Urban Institute of Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, is that ..
Broken promises. Burnt bridges. Bleaching future. In just a matter of few decades the Nigerian leaders have succeeded in putting the country farther than where it originally before “Great Britain ..
Religious leaders are powerful. But religious leaders with access to scriptures which are predominantly text-based are even more powerful. Factors accounting for such power include: Limited access ..
The subject of capitalism has regressively progressed from Adam Smith to modern capitalism. Many countries have opened their borders to the policy makers and defenders of the ideologies of capitalism, ..
Whether in America or Africa, the divine military is a highly hierarchical and racialized or tribalized unit of command. The closer you are to the level of scriptural interpreters, the more ‘benefits ..