TB Joshua (1963 – 2021) #4
John Atta Mills, former president of Ghana
Incorruptible
John Atta Mills, former president of Ghana
We are, of course, still very far from arriving at anything close to an empirical assessment of Joshua’s ministerial impact, and extremely far from justifying our opening statement claiming Joshua to be the most significant Christian minister in modern times. But there is much evidence to be considered and we have barely begun. It is … More T.B. Joshua (1963 – 2021) #3
Evaluating a public figure whose purported acts range from alleged rape (*SCOAN denies charges) to alleged resurrection, and multiple cases of each, might signal for some that there is more fiction than fact circulated about this character and he clearly is one of those individuals that attract tall tales both in villification and veneration alike, … More TB Joshua (1963 – 2021) #2
Wikipedia’s biography will of course contain sources from the spectrum of advocates and adversaries alike. These articles do not seek to litigate the many claims that have been made in endorsement or denouncement of Prophet TB Joshua. His ministry attracted extreme opinion and sentiment. Neither are an accurate measure of impact. It is the empirical … More T.B. Joshua (1963 – 2021) #1
T.B. Joshua is the single-most significant person in 21st century Christianity emerging at the time of the shift of the epicenter of the faith from Europe to Africa. His influence in life and death eclipses every other proclaimer of the gospel of Jesus Christ of his era. Despite the most vicious attempts to distort and … More The dust settles. The legacy remains.
I am about to move on from this provocative subject but feel constrained to leave behind some markers for those persons who will have to return to these writings to decide what merit there may be to the views expressed and what relevance, weight and impact if any, they will have upon their practice of … More The Problem Pseudo Jamaicans have with Black Identity Part 3 (Final)
Everywhere, everyone seems to have woken up to talk about the US and Cuba. Suddenly, national consensus on any number of issues that deeply divided the polity a generation or two ago now has shifted. Folk born after the 1980s seem to think significantly differently than folk before that time. Or could my earshot be … More Uncomfortable Truths
Pip: YeKengalé is the kind of site that asks you to sit down, take a breath, and then hands you something that requires several more breaths — the good kind, the kind that come with actual thinking. Mara: Today’s episode follows yekengale into the long history of how imperial projects used religion and ideology to … More Podcast Episode: The fallacy and the mandate: Out of many, One
I have been promising to take a deeper look at the role of religion in preparing the axiological scaffolding that supports a civilization and in particular, the role that Colombian and Cromwellian Christianity played in shaping The Caribbean and the Americas of today, which demanded the surrender and capitulation of many indigenous and imported identities … More The fallacy and the mandate: Out of many, One
I gave this speech at the Rotary Club of St Andrew yesterday. The live video was defective so I present the information here in this format. Every generation of mankind has a duty to the species of legacy. We receive the gift of life and all its treasure to ‘pass it on’ in time as … More May to Remember