Hope in Liberia
November 12, 2008
Carolyn McCulley (Radical Womanhood) is pointing her readers to a blog authored by 25 year-old Ali Wilks, a pediatric nurse who works with Mercy Ships. Ali recently shared the story of a young Liberian woman named Marion, and her first efforts at learning to use a computer:
“I set the computer on my lap and explained the basics of typing. I showed her what a spacebar is and what it does. I demonstrated the intricacies of the shift key. I explained about punctuation. And then I sat back and let her type. One. letter. at. a. time.”
There’s much more to the story! Read the whole post.
African Christianity (update)
November 2, 2008
Zondervan’s koinonia blog has put up a series of posts on the distinctives of the Christian church in Africa, and its theology:
Living on the Seam of History 1: African Christianity
Living on the Seam of History 2: God in Africa
Living on the Seam of History 3: African Christology
Living on the Seam of History, Part 3: The Holy Spirit
(update 10/17) Living on the Seam of History, Part 4, which examines Samuel Waje Kunhiyop’s text, African Christian Ethics.
(update 10/23) Living on the Seam of History, Part 5, on Christian-Muslim relations in Africa
(update 11/1) Part 7: Towards a Missiological and Theological Renaissance
The series takes its title from a quote by Timothy Tennent, from Theology in the Context of World Christianity:
“We are now in the midst of one of the most dramatic shifts in Christianity since the Reformation. Christianity is on the move and is creating a seismic change that is changing the face of the whole Christian movement. Every Christian in the world, but especially those in the West, must understand how these changes will influence our understanding of church history, our study of theology, and our conception of world missions.”
In 2006, Zondervan published their Africa Bible Commentary: A One-Volume Commentary Written by 70 African Scholars.
(HT: Aaron Rathburn)
We remember Mansuur Mohammed, our brother in Christ
October 30, 2008
The Alpha & Omega Ministries blog shares a story from Compass Direct News about a Christian worker in Kenya who was killed by militant Muslims last month:
“Muslim extremists from the al Shabab group fighting the transitional government on Sept. 23 sliced the head off of Mansuur Mohammed, 25, a World Food Program (WFP) worker, before horrified onlookers of Manyafulka village, 10 kilometers (six miles) from Baidoa.”
[Let us pray for Mohammed's family and for other believers in Kenya -- and for the men who did this. Pray that God would have mercy on them and lead them to the truth (Matt. 5:44) - Admin]
Newsflash: Obama not an Arab
October 15, 2008
A point driven home by Culture11’s Razib Khan:
“There are plenty of black Arabs of course, mostly in the Sudan and East Africa. Arab is a cultural-linguistic identity, so race is no bar. But the fact is that most Arabs are a Mediterranean looking folk as the process of Arabicization occurred mostly in the Near East and North Africa.”
