Introduction In his book, The Secular Age, Charles Tylor, a political and social philosopher, identified three stages that religious faith has gone through: premodern, modern, and postmodern. The premodern world…
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Introduction So on the 7th of January, news broke that Elon Musk (the popular founder of Tesla) had overtaken Jeff Bezos (the popular founder of Amazon) as the world's richest…
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Introduction Many people have responded to the pervasive entitlement mentality in modern culture by promoting a spirit of independence. But with many things, we tend to go to one extreme…
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Introduction When a new year dawns, people everywhere come up with themes for the year. The themes can be corporate (a church’s) or individual. I won’t bore you with examples…
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An idea can affect culture or sub-culture in two ways: the overt way where people publicly embrace an ideology and the covert way where people accept the assumptions and beliefs…
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Introduction I have a habit of viewing people’s status updates on Whatsapp. A day does not pass without me viewing every “recent update.” As I go through these updates, I…
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On Saturday, November 28, 2020, gunmen attacked rice farmers in Koshobe, Borno State, Nigeria. About 110 were killed in that attack, according to the Washington Post. A day before the…
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In a previous article, we considered the death of Christian courage, its causes, and the way back. One of the points I made is that many times, cowardice is the…
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While most Nigerian Christians have heard this statement brandished around, they probably don’t know it is from 1 Chronicles 16:21. We assume we know the meaning of the statement even…
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If there is one human limitation that we would all love to remove, I bet it will be our ignorance of the future. Many of our fears and anxieties as…
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