Today is Pentecost Sunday, a day in the liturgical calender when the church marks the coming of the Holy Spirit to empower the Children of God for a better service to God and humanity. Peter who denied Jesus three
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By The Rev. Canon Phil Ashey Published in American Anglican Council It is an understatement that Anglicanism is not always neat and tidy. The very nature of our decision making in councils, as ancient as it may be, is messy. Things don’t
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One Christian was killed, four others injured, and a further four abducted by bandits in an attack on a church bus in Kaduna state, Nigeria. The incident took place in the early hours on April 6 on the Kaduna-Kachia road, near
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08/04/2020 By The Rev. Canon Phil Ashey One of the most powerful scriptures that arrests me is Jesus’ proclamation about his Church: “When Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi, Jesus asked his disciples, ‘Who do people say
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Oft quoted at weddings, preeminent celebrations of romantic love, a poem is read extolling the virtue of love: Love is patient and kind Love is not jealous or boastful… Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things,
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By Abbie Brooks The story of the 276 kidnapped Chibok girls is one that was heard around the world. Just over six years after the event, violence in Borno State continues. For five years, a rebel insurgency in north
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The COVID-19 pandemic, also called the novel coronavirus, called SARS-CoV-2, has caught the Nigerian church completely unawares, just as it has caught governments and many societies, even the medical community, unawares. The virus is certainly not new nor is
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