Social Media and The Illusion of Community
Social Media and The Illusion of Community The ease at which people bring personal issues to social media is alarming. Many of the events in the past few weeks reminded…
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Is It Ever Right To Sack Pastors?
Some days ago, a sack letter issued by Winners Chapel to some forty pastors surfaced online. The pastors were let go because their “growth index falls below expectations.” One of…
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Drink Water From Your Cistern: Lessons from Chidinma and Usifo.
One of the viral stories in the Nigerian webosphere last month was the murder of Super TV CEO, Usifo Ataga, by Chidinma Ojukwu, his girlfriend, a 300-level student of the…
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Raising Rooted Children in a Liberal Age
A year ago, I wrote an article for Children’s Day titled “Children and their Enemies.” The goal was to identify practices, beliefs, and institutions that are hindrances to the flourishing…
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Should We Go To Church On Sunday? A Response To Reno Omokri’s Sabbatharian Proof-texts
Introduction Some days ago, some of my Whatsapp contacts were heartily posting on their Whatsapp status links to an article by Reno Omokri that argues that Christians should keep the…
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“Monsters You Made”: Structural Deficiencies and Individual Responsibility
Introduction When Burna Boy won the Grammy Award, I decided to check out his Grammy-award-winning album – Twice as Tall. Before that time, I have heard people talk about his…
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Burna Boy, Obafemi Martins, and the Source of Human Dignity
Introduction On March 3, 2021, a Nigerian rapper, CDQ, announced on Instagram that Burna Boy, one of the leading music artists in Nigeria (who just won a Grammy), had disrespected…
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Bolu Okupe and Why Africa Should Not Follow Secularized Europe
Introduction If you pay attention to religious discussions, you must have heard many people argue that religion goes with backwardness and secularism goes with progress, like butter goes with bread.…
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From Normalization to Legalization: The Homosexuality Problem
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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The Independent Woman: How Covert Feminism Destroys the Christian Family
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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