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African Christian Leadership, Realities, Opportunities and Impact Edited by Robert J Priest and Kirimi Barine ( Orbis Books for the American Society of Missiology, 2017). $30 USD. This book, with fifteen contributors, has a clear and openly stated purpose – to assist those investing funds in education and training of leaders for Africa’s churches to […]

More than seventy heads of university theology faculties, principals of theological colleges and directors of national Christian fellowships from twenty countries throughout sub-Saharan Africa met for the nineteenth annual conference of the Network for African Congregational Theology (NetACT) at St Paul’s University Limuru, Kenya, from July 1-5. They gathered to develop their understanding of Islam which is

Vinay Samuel and Chris Sugden On Tuesday June 18, the Governing Body of Murray Edwards College Cambridge met to consider the findings of the Charity Commission into allegations of misconduct by Oxfam’s staff involved in its humanitarian response in Haiti 2011. The College’s President, Dame Barbara Stocking, was Chief Executive of Oxfam in 2011. The

During the recent Stellenbosch DPhil research and methodologies seminar, Professor Patrick Sookhdeo presented a paper on his research methodologies. This paper outlines his approach to research, information, and teaching, and then focuses on two key stages of research: locating and testing the source of information, and then analysing the information. Professor Sookhdeo’s particular methodology draws

Available from Isaac Publishing Hated without a Reason: The Remarkable story of Christian persecution over the centuries Patrick Sookhdeo, Isaac Publications, April 2019. 272pp £10.00 In his interim report on the persecution of Christians, commissioned by the Foreign Office (CEN report February 8th) and published on May 3rd, the Bishop of Truro likened the current persecution

Available from Barnabas Fund Meditations and Prayers This book of 98 meditations and prayers is intended to help the reader encounter God and His love in a variety of situations, whether joyful praise or sorrow, loneliness, rejection, despair or even imminent death.

Available from Grove Books Limited Over the last 6 months our Co-Dean of Graduate Programmes, Canon Dr Chris Sugden edited the following 28 page booklet which was published last week. It has been reviewed by a leading palliative care doctor. COVID-19 Where is God in all this? Greg Forster, Caris Grimes, James Haslam, Michael Langrish, John Pilling

OCRPL and Stellenbosch University Post-graduate researchers meet online for two weeks Church leaders in Africa, Asia and Latin America, especially in countries where Christians are not only a minority but also where the dominant religious culture puts heavy pressure on them either through restricting their civic and religious freedom or through the violent activity of

Over the last century the Christians have risen from 9% to 54% of the population of Africa, yet it remains the poorest continent. How can this be if Christian faith claims to transform people’s lives? Seminaries prepare people with good Bible knowledge and counselling skills to speak from the pulpit and visit people in their