Ecumenical Pedagogy

The goals of the dialogue among churches cannot be achieved without a system of education that ensures that church communities come to the knowledge of what the dialogue is all about. It also means a system of reception in which what dialogue experts have done among themselves are broken down into practical elements. This is important because knowledge remains abstract and inaccessible until it is made concrete and practical. The author of the famous book The Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Paolo Freire, in his other book, The Pedagogy of Freedom, argues for an educational system that integrates theory and praxis. According to … Continue reading Ecumenical Pedagogy

Other Important Questions

“One day all these churches will close down and all of them will return to the original Church of Christ, the holy Catholic and apostolic Church. So, you guys can keep deceiving yourselves, pretending to be church,” said John Gandu.  He was just having a heated argument with his friend Precious Vareba.  Precious isn’t taking any of this from John.  And so, Precious retorted, “my brother, leave that thing. You see, you people don’t understand that Christianity is about living in the Spirit and believing in the Word of God. You only live out human traditions of religion and claim … Continue reading Other Important Questions

L. SANNEH: ON RELIGION’S SELF-DROWNING

Gambia’s Lamin Sanneh (1942-2019) was indeed one of African’s finest scholars in the field of religion. Prior to his death on January 6 this year, Sanneh was the D. Willis James Professor of Missions and World Christianity at Yale Divinity School and Professor of History at Yale University. There he taught for 30 years. In The New York Timestribute, Sanneh was described as a “champion of cross-cultural exchange”, and former Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams described him as “probably the most significant theologian of mission in the English-speaking world today.” Sanneh’s major concern as a scholar was on the reality of … Continue reading L. SANNEH: ON RELIGION’S SELF-DROWNING