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January 03, 2012
13:46
Rediscovering the Supernatural Worldview of the Bible (Heiser’s Free Book)
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Michael Heiser, The Naked Bible, is offering the first draft of his book FREE (329 pages) Subtitle: Rediscovering the Supernatural Worldview of the Bible. I’ve really enjoyed the preface. …My life has been spectacularly mundane…It‘s kind of like watching It’s a Wonderful Life…looking back I see the ordinary deeds of steadfast friends and passing acquaintances, [...]
December 21, 2011
1:32
More than 1/3 of Protestants and Evangelicals live in Sub-Saharan Africa (Pew study)
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The latest Pew study on Global Christianity. The number of Christians around the world has more than tripled in the last 100 years, from about 600 million in 1910 to more than 2 billion in 2010. But the world’s overall population also has risen rapidly, from an estimated 1.8 billion in 1910 to 6.9 billion [...]
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The Biggest Denominations Worldwide
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The recent Pew study on Global Christianity (see next post) has this breakdown of Protestant denominations worldwide: Filed under: church, global christianity
October 18, 2011
22:16
More maps of Africa: official languages and driving side
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Jeff and Heather Pubols have a cool map of Africa’s official languages. They also have one about which side of the road people drive on. Filed under: Africa, links of the day
October 17, 2011
22:43
The Gospel’s relational cure to increasing tribalism
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On our trip through the USA this summer, I began to sense that as Africa becomes more global and cosmopolitan, my native America was growing more fractured and tribal. Stereotypically speaking, in Africa relationships almost always come first. With globalization, the circle of those relationships is rapidly expanding. Increasingly in America, ideology can trump relationship and end [...]
October 15, 2011
12:16
Kibera’s not as big as we thought
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Kibera is not as heavily populated as many (most?) people have been saying. This is old news (last year), but it’s gotten some recent attention at Humanitarian info (for some reason, I can’t see the actual post; I only see the comments). See also Africa Research Institute’s Urban Africa by Numbers. Daily Nation: By MUCHIRI KARANJA pmuchiri@ke.nationmedia.com Posted [...]
October 13, 2011
19:40
The church in Africa as a thriving market (Gitau)
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Maggie Gitau, new PhD student in World Christianity provides this imageof the church in Africa: ….Some years ago I lived in the backyard of Toi Market, a bustling and sprawling second-hand clothes market annexed to the Kibera slums. During the 2007/ 2008 political violence it was razed to the ground. After it was reconstructed the market [...]
September 29, 2011
22:16
Religious Restrictions Rising (Pew)
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A recent Pew study shows that religious restrictions have risen for over 1/3 of the world’s population between 2006-2009. More than 2.2 billion people – nearly a third (32%) of the world’s total population of 6.9 billion are facing greater religious restrictions. See Executive Summary for more details. Among the five geographic regions covered in this report, [...]
September 22, 2011
18:43
Personal transitions
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I’m (still!) a struggling dissertation writer, but a few other things have happened over the past year or so: I’ve joined Africa International University (AIU)‘s Institute for the Study of African Realities (ISAR) as a research fellow. My wife Christi become a certified life coach (Awaken Coaching). We’ve become an official missionaries with Pioneers. We spent three and half [...]
September 20, 2011
21:25
On faith and the academic pursuit of correct answers (Yoda)
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I was in a silly mood this morning while corresponding with a friend about young students wanting direct answers from their profs. It got me thinking about my own academic and spiritual journey. My five-year-old son has become a Star Wars fanatic, and many conversations in our home are now conducted now with a Yoda [...]
September 19, 2011
22:25
Love outlasts fear and ignorance
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I’ve come to believe Love doesn’t outright defeat fear and ignorance as much as it simply outlasts them. No matter how much you give, our little neighborhood fellowship will never overcome the culture of poverty surrounding us. We are just the Resistance, wreaking compassionate havoc where and when we can, waiting for a much stronger [...]
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What to do on a short-term missions trip
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Preston Sprinkle asked two veterans of theological education in Africa what a positive short-term mission trip would look like. They said: don’t teach. I know you’re a teacher, you even have a PhD, and it looks like you’re doing a fine job in America, but if you come to Africa, don’t teach during your first [...]
April 28, 2011
10:43
Education at its best: collaborative, fun self-teaching and the grandmother effect (TED)
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Christi and I enjoyed this TED talk last night on how kids can teach themselves. It has a lot of implications for how we view education even with adults. Some take-aways for me include seeing that good education involves: a few key resources strategic set-up (design) fun curiosity collaboration encouragement and affirmation (the “grandmother effect”) [...]
March 22, 2011
13:12
The Africa Society of Evangelical Theology (ASET) launches with lectures on What is African Theology?
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The Africa Society of Evangelical Theology (ASET) invites you to its first Annual Conference and General Meeting: 26 March 2011 9am – 4pm At Africa International University (AIU) (Nairobi Evangelical Graduate School of Theology – NEGST) Keynote addresses: “What is Evangelical Theology?” Prof. Mark Shaw “What is African Theology?” Prof. Samuel Ngewa The conference is [...]
January 27, 2011
14:26
The future of the global Muslim population (Pew)
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The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life has released a new study on the future of global Muslim populations. The full study can be downloaded PDF (11 MB) Executive Summary: …The world’s Muslim population is expected to increase by about 35% in the next 20 years, rising from 1.6 billion in 2010 to 2.2 [...]
January 15, 2011
20:33
Ethno-linguistic groups of Africa map (NYTimes)
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Here is an interesting map of Africa’s ethnolinguistic groupings (NYTImes). Filed under: Africa

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