Kevin's Theogrimage

My day-to-day in the past weeks has been  a series of emotional highs and lows. In this reflection I will focus on the lows : darkness, despair and despond. While reading a blog post from John Piper's Desiring God's website, the post  Worship in the Dark  drew me to the words in Psalm 88. In many ways, this psalm has brought to my heart and mind some of the emotional agony that the loss of my brother has resulted in. The lows of this emotional roller-coaster are different many times but based on the reaffirmed reality of life on earth: That our experiences here on earth will be colored by troubles. This is the same reminder that Jesus gives his disciples in John 16:33 prior to his taking up his greatest obstacle but our greatest pathway to a ransomed life, that is the Cross. The Agony of Loss based on Embodied Reality In such moments as have been the past weeks, these trials have been real. The agony of never seeing one whom you have more than been acquainted with...

Life as a Christian sometimes feels as an eclectic warring between good and evil; between "I have it figured out" and sometimes "I do not know what on earth I'm doing." It plays itself out in the individual's life as sometimes a vocal assault on the imperfections of human beings and sometimes a quiet acceptance of dealing with the same. It imprints itself to the beauty of a life that is counter-cultural and some other times a participation of the cultural delights and pleasures. It is easy in light of this for the Christian to feel as if he is on the straight ticket to hell, while at other times, that Heaven is a reality on earth. And both point towards very crucial existential realities. These contradictions of the Christian life indicate the reality of the phrases "the kingdom has come" and "the Kingdom will come" It is really a reality that is real. On one hand a life that is consumed by the life that Jesus Christ gives allud...

1. Introduction What is the kind of   anthropology that is beneficial for the global man today? The 21 st Century African man is faced with a variety of influences that inform his humanity and his interpretation of the world and God. The 21 st Century African man finds himself in a metropolis, where no singular and objective foundation of meaning is accorded to him. The African Scholar J. N. K. Mugambi observes “the greatest evidences of anarchical tendencies is in the urban centres – which, sociologically and universally, are associated with individual freedom from, anonymity, mobility, opportunity, flexibility and plurality.” [1] Mugambi observes that other scholars see this plurality of phenomenon as a success. Yet, a quick observation of the daily news articles paints a different picture: Religious wars, political and social anarchy, economic and health deprivation, capitalism, broken relationships and death. How then is man to find meaning in this cacophony of human e...

a.       Introduction The main thesis of this piece is to provide a proof for the existence of God based on a cosmological argument that synthesizes Western analytic and African thought, to prove that atheism in Africa has no thorough basis for its worldview. In the historical discourse on the existence of God, several arguments and counter-arguments have been posited by Philosophers, Theologians, Scientists and other scholars. Whereas John Mbiti’s statement that Africans are religious has almost become an altruism, the rate of the youth disinterested with religion and specifically theism poses a problem. However, the writer posits that Atheists in Africa have no thorough basis for their worldview because sufficient evidence exists for God’s existence both from the work of Western Analytic Philosophers as well as Africanist scholars in the discipline of Cosmology. The writer presumes that due to the lack of a familiarity with the African conception of God...