The concept and design of the book was well thought out. Producing Agbebi’s story as a magazine style publication made it much more engaging than it would have been as a normal hard or soft cover book. The format also allowed highlights from his career and his times, as well as snippets from his literary…
Category: History
The Blessing of Church History
Sketches from Church History by S.M. Houghton was one of my first books, and certainly my first introduction to church history. What an experience! It is so sad to have lived in the dark all one’s life, only to be suddenly thrust into such a rich and engrossing epic. Beyond an exposure to unfamiliar names…
Between Marx and Christ
Karl Marx (1818-1883) famously derided religion as a myth. He described it as an opiate which people take to help them cope with oppression and social injustice. At the root of society’s problem was the existence of private property. The possession of property placed the owners in a class distinct from those who lacked property…
Christians in History: Augustine (354 – 430AD)
The eminent church historian, Philip Schaff (1819-1893), described him as ‘the great church teacher of all times’. Augustine is a towering figure in the long history of the Christian church. Aside from standing as an important link between early Christianity and the Middle Ages, his views and ideas have deeply influenced how the Christian world…
Christmas—Its Spirit and Meaning
The Christmas story isn’t fiction, though contemporary notions of it largely are. We speak of a jolly season where it is all smiles, gifts, and lights. There is Santa Claus, the grandfatherly figure with a wide grin, kind eyes and a sack full of toys. The dinner tables laid out with many delightful dishes and…
Niemoller’s Regret
All it takes for evil to triumph is for godly men to do nothing. This was what Martin Niemoller (1892-1984), one of the founders of the Confessing Church which resisted the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler in Germany, came to realize. He had protested against Hitler’s encroachment upon the church life but had been silent about…
Modernity: Story without a Storyteller
In an article published over twenty years ago, the late Lutheran theologian, Robert W. Jenson (1930-2017), left a rather poignant paragraph for us to reflect on: “If there is little mystery about where the West got its faith in a narratable world, neither is there much mystery about how the West has lost this faith….
Christianity and Communism
Communism is one of the great ideologies to have arisen on the earth. Spanning across cultures as diverse as Russia and China, Cuba and North Korea, it is truly a global movement. It has enjoyed, and still enjoys, wide appeal because of its concern for the suffering and oppression of the lower classes of society….
8 Christian thinkers you should take seriously
Over the course of history, God raises people who influence the body of Christ through their ministry and writings. And of them, it can be said that even while dead, they still speak (Hebrews 11:4). Below are a few of such figures who should be taken seriously by the Christian believer today. The list is…
The School of Suffering, by Joseph Tson
*The communist attack in Romania is a three-fold one directed toward individuals, churches, and pastors. The primary plan of attack on individual Christians is to make their life miserable where they work. Discriminate! Demote! Keep them at the lowest place. Continually tell them how they are not wanted there, that they are merely tolerated. Make…
The Christian Mind 