Faith & Philosophy

Chances are, growing up, you partook – as audience or celebrant – in a very colourful tapestry of ancestral liturgies: Ogun festival, Sango festival, Imole festival, Egungun festival, and, of …

The faces of Helen Ukpabio are many. She is the evangelist, the tormentor of children, the astute business woman, the formidable fighter and the conscienceless brute. Helen Ukpabio is an …

Prayer is one aspect of my Christian experience that has been inconsistent and has received the worst attention over time. It is my story and the stories of countless Christians …

Without mincing words, the monster in question is Evangelist Helen Ukpabio, the founder of Liberty Foundation Gospel Ministries, Nigeria. Helen has remained defiant even in the face of national and …

It is time the Pentecostal Church realised that the verification of a fruitful ministry stands not in the number of people who attend your crusades, the number of branches your …

Karl Marx hated with ceaseless passion capitalist created millionaires and billionaires anywhere in the world. In fact, if capitalism was a human being, Karl Marx was ready, during his times …

I was a church boy who didn’t have the nerves to rebel like Rastafarians, and the little courage in me was snuffed out in med school where I was literally …

What is it about TB Joshua that has actually engendered such outright denunciation and renunciation by his fellow labourers in the vineyard?

“I am sure by now you have received a text message saying that Pastor E A Adeboye said you should pray from 1am to 3am so that someone close to …

As long as the unpredictability of the counting of time remains, the lines permeating the realms of joy from sorrow, love from hate, and life from death will inevitably remain …

Another Father’s Day had come and gone. I’d wished you were here to hear it from my mouth that I cherish you for being my father. Though I have no …

On a Sunday morning, you should try this experiment: turn your television on, sit back and listen. From some Christian synagogues, to some of the mosques that dot the Nigerian …

Is there any possible rational explanation for the nationality one comes from? Is there any reasoning to the selection of people in a country or even continent? Why was one …

I want Nigerian leaders of faith groups and organizations to draw inspiration and strength from what their colleagues have done elsewhere around the world. I pray they replicate same in …

The Pope lied; He lied to Africans while on his trip to Cameroon. Pope Benedict XVI blatantly lied to the press and public. He, a former college professor, now pope, …

The minority ethnic churches by their very nature bring about challenges. One of them is the possibility of the second generation problem.  There could come a time when these churches …