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Religion
Childhood: Driving the languages of sacrifice
Wednesday, 3 September 2008 1:35 A GMT+01
Memories from childhood from driving lessons through school lessons to langauge lessons and the people it affected.
The hard facts about preventing teenage pregnancies
Tuesday, 2 September 2008 5:09 A GMT+01
Dealing with a teenage pregnancy can be a life-changing or a life-threatening situation. Are there practical steps that can be taken to avoid the pregnancies and the taboo of abortion long before we get that far?
The example of riches untold
Sunday, 31 August 2008 12:50 A GMT+01
One is beginning to wonder whether the example of riches is now more important than the riches of example of Christian living.
The prosperity gospel appears to be distorting the gospel message.
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Apes Obey! Seldom rises above pantheistic animism
Monday, 11 August 2008 9:42 P GMT+01
Another from Apes Obey! Series. The chairman of the NDDC is suspended and arrested for spending $4 million on witch doctor services to kill a colleague and earn juicy contracts.
Nigeria: God is signing autographs on beef - up North
Tuesday, 22 July 2008 4:29 P GMT+01
Inscriptions of Allah and Mohammed have appeared on cuts of beef up North in Birnin Kebbi - astounding.
Nigeria: Women badly represented at CEDAW convention
Monday, 21 July 2008 6:06 P GMT+01
Our women's minister took a battalion to the UN, they could not shoot their guns and the medics gave them an overdose of sarcastic nudity.
Apes Obey! Vague dread of the supernatural
Thursday, 17 July 2008 5:10 P GMT+01
My first contribution to the Apes Obey! Series where I take a phrase from Lord Lugard's writings and juxtapose it with a contemporary event in Nigeria.
This is on the vague dread of the supernatural which lead to the loss of 17 lives.
Introducing the Apes Obey! Series
Thursday, 17 July 2008 10:24 A GMT+01
Introducing the Apes Obey! series of blogs that takes a phrase our of an excerpt of Lord Lugard's writings 86 years ago and aligns it with contemporary events in Nigeria today, showing how those observations still find true today.
Medicine man rescues marriage
Tuesday, 15 July 2008 12:00 P GMT+01
Are medicine men relevant to society in problem solving everyday life?
The gospel of the widow's mite
Sunday, 6 July 2008 11:31 P GMT+01
The gospel, its presentation and who does it against metrics we cannot properly measure from observation.
My father is my mother
Saturday, 5 July 2008 2:16 P GMT+01
Father, mother, child, love - all the world needs to exist in happiness? Maybe, but the roles change and the genders are now non-descript - this is our society running ahead of our prejudices.
Satan's hand in human stupidity as church splits
Friday, 4 July 2008 6:58 P GMT+01
The split afflicting the Anglican Church is more about competing egos than doctrinal differences because it takes the church no further in its work of remaining relevant to the communities they are operating in.
Nigeria: Our Culture adopted for criminality
Wednesday, 28 May 2008 10:22 P GMT+01
Maquerades and Oro are overstaying their welcome menacing people and getting involved in criminality.
It's Only a Book
Monday, 19 May 2008 9:38 P GMT+01
A religious book only has value when the words in the book are part of a human development process.
A book in an of itself regardless of the words mean nothing and should exercise no power or influence over anyone.
Olympic torch lights up Tibetan cause
Wednesday, 9 April 2008 1:33 A GMT+01
If anything, the Chinese have been naive to think they could pull off the Olympics without the spotlight being shone on their internal affairs including Tibet.
They should have known someone would take advantage of the Olympic year for this.
Fitna - The irresponsible movie
Monday, 31 March 2008 1:58 P GMT+01
My view of Geert Wilders intemperate and irresponsible film about Islam.
My holy week begins with Matthäus Passion
Tuesday, 18 March 2008 5:47 P GMT+01
I went to see Matthäus Passion last Sunday and much was seen and heard.
My Mother's Generation
Wednesday, 12 March 2008 2:57 P GMT+01
A cursory look at the divide between my mother's generation and ours.
Habiba Garba: Religion and violence against women
Monday, 3 March 2008 9:49 P GMT+01
We have to take a stand against violence towards women and the way religion fails to address issues of humanity for keeping their rotten tenets.
YouTube versus Islam - Between discernment and ignorance
Tuesday, 26 February 2008 5:54 A GMT+01
When Pakistan banned access to YouTube to avoid access to content that might be offensive to Islam the blocked global access to the site.
I fear for how the protection of religion ridicules religion even more.
Earth-queers quaking in Israel
Thursday, 21 February 2008 6:16 P GMT+01
I have just had my fill of reprehensible religious and political leaders who seek a minority to blame for natural disasters.
How can gays have caused earthquakes in the Holy Lands?
They called the child ...
Wednesday, 20 February 2008 5:07 P GMT+01
Confiding in a friend; when your emotions are mixed about naming a child, it is wiser not to put voice to what might look an appropriate name.
Academic theologians creating Islamic disquiet
Monday, 11 February 2008 12:06 A GMT+01
When church leaders state opinions about other religions in academic lectures to erudite audiences they set off a chain of adverse reactions in the general uninvited public that condemns the leaders to possible ignominy and derision.
The Archbishop of CounterBury
Saturday, 9 February 2008 3:30 P GMT+01
The Archbishop of Canterbury has created a storm that is he now stuck in the miiddle of - he suggested Sharia Law in the UK is inevitable.
I have a nano-dream
Monday, 21 January 2008 9:52 P GMT+01
As we commemorate the Martin Luther King Day 2008, I do not think we are any nearer fulfilling the words of that "I have a dream" speech given almost 45 years ago.
We have individuals, fine, but not great numbers of people who have really made it.
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