While we were busy reflecting on the significance of the great coincidence; viz. “Ashful Val” or the “Valenash“, the appointed Bishop of Ahiara Diocese, Bishop Peter Okpaleke, published his resignation letter as he preached the necessity and urgency for Repentance and Reconciliation. The Catholic Bishop, who was appointed by Pope Benedict XVI on December 7, …
Today, being the 14th day of the Month of February 2018, we are faced with two colours – ash and red. What does this actually signify? What is nature telling us? What is the true message of this day? Considering the significance of these colours, I have no doubt that there is a clarion call …
It is a pragmatic fact that the christian world and the world at large is presently approaching a sensitive season, which is the season of Lent. This season begins with the penitential act of marking ourselves with Ash as a sign of contrition and a means to return to the merciful father. However, this year …
The season of lent stands as the most solemn season in the universal Church. It is a season when the holy mother church, in keeping with a most ancient tradition, offers up the fine things of life in preparation for a divine ascent to the most sacred mountain of Easter. Beyond the imposition of ashes, …
God’s ways definitely are not ours, they are totally inscrutable in essence else they cease to be his. Reflecting on this topic I was spurred to have a discussion with my inner self and with theologians. Why Isaac and not Ishmael. Is God inconsiderate? Is He partial? Does he have a favourite? These questions continue …
In the heat of a philosophical romance with some great minds, the perennial/recurrent issues about the freedom of humans, the existence of evil and God’s love for humans were being dissected. Here, I stumbled upon this important topic: If God “Kills” Satan. This topic cuts across these issues, and if it is really addressed, then …
The truism that our world is fast developing into a global village is not an overemphasized one, rather it is one that is empirically verifiable. This is so because our world today is such that we can do almost everything just at our fingertip and at our door step because of the introduction of the …
Not until the 19th Century, the affiliation between science and religion, which began in the 15th Century with the rise of modern science, could be seen as a coalition. Most of the scientists then were religious personnel who were not willing to jeopardize their faith for scientific explorations and so they saw no conflicting issues …