The African Woman’s Suffering: Hermeneutics, Geography, and Liberation Theology
The once peripheral voices of African women theologians are prophetically calling for justice-oriented ways of reading the biblical text.
The once peripheral voices of African women theologians are prophetically calling for justice-oriented ways of reading the biblical text.
In this essay, Kelly Johnson explores the categories of comedy and tragedy as she considers how we might stay informed about social injustices, suffering, and human rights violations and yet maintain and nurture Christian joy.
Please excuse the schizophrenic nature of this article. The truth is, after the Lausanne Young Leader’s Gathering I could consider myself evangelical …or could I really…? Lausanne’s Younger Leaders Gathering was certainly a charming event, a sensory feast. There were good looking, healthy, zealous young leaders from across the globe in beautiful cultural costumes to look at, […]
I pick up a hardening of attitudes, and I pick up racism. And I think, more than anything else, the book (Gift of Tongues) is a plea – we have to start imagining ourselves the other. (Antjie Krog, Mail and Guardian, October 3-9, 2003) For at least the last two-and-a-half decades, critical theory in the humanities […]