Why the ‘Prosperity Gospel’ Thrives in Africa
On a cool Sunday afternoon at Nairobi’s Uhuru Park, thousands of worshippers have gathered for a well-publicised open-air evangelical service, or crusade, by a popular city preacher.
Henry Makori
What were the gospel writers up to?
Why did the writers of the gospels choose to publish the many insults hurled at Jesus Christ? Why did they...
Church lost an opportunity
Weeks ago, when those haunting images of starving women, children and the elderly began flooding the Kenyan media, the secretary-general...
New realities in pastoral care
My friend Zachariah once shocked me when he said that he wanted to be a catechist. Zach had completed his...
A prostitute’s redemption
My former editor at a Catholic magazine, Fr Gigi (his nickname), once asked me to interview a certain young woman...
The loneliness of priests
Some weeks back, a friend who is an official of a diocese invited me to talk to Catholic school children...
Which Jesus do we know?
In rural western Kenya, some apparently sane people purport to worship an elderly polygamous man. He has nearly a hundred...
Its good to know I’m mortal
I think I had excellent preparation for Lent this year. My sister rang me up the other day to find...
People’s spiritual hunger
Someone recently hit out at priests. Well, that is not news. Pillorying priests goes back to the days of the...
