Tenda Wema Missions

04/02/2023

"Whitewashing [of Christianity] wrongly validates and champions the implicit cultural and historical bias within conservative evangelical communities and bolsters the notion that people of color will remain unequal to our white counterparts, regardless of our credentialing or accomplishment." - E.B Lane

17/01/2023

The theological and sociological aspects of Gospel witness are inseparable and indistinguishably put God’s People at odds with power systems. - Vince Bantu

17/12/2022

Miroslav Volf's notes on some passages in 1 Peter:

"What we should learn from the text [1 Peter] is not, of course, to keep our mouths shut and hands folded, but to make our rhetoric and action more modest so that they can be more effective. As we strive for social change, 1 Peter nudges us to drop the pen that scripts master narratives and instead give account of the living hope in God and God’s future (3:15; 1:5), to abandon the project of reshaping society from the ground up and instead do as much as we can from where we are at the time we are there (2:11), to suffer injustice and bless the unjust rather than perpetrating violence by repaying ‘evil for evil or abuse for abuse’ (3:9), and to replace the anger of frustration with the joy of expectation (4:13)."

16/12/2022

God’s vision for His People includes orthodox worship and justice for the marginalized—the Gospelist tradition of Black Christians in the modern world is consistent with biblical tradition. - Dr Cleotha Robertson

14/12/2022

09/12/2022

Gospel Haymanot is the perspective that maintains a high view of scripture coupled with biblical justice from a Black perspective. - Cleotha Robertson

04/12/2022

Gospel Haymanot arises out of the need to address the vacuum of theological and religious scholarship which considers themes of justice, race, and gender from an orthodox tradition. In addition, a Gospel Haymanot reclaims the voice, traditions, and experiences of Black people who are oft-neglected in the exposition of the text in orthodox settings. - Quonekuia Day

28/11/2022

Dr. David Daniels is one of the regular panelists at the J3P's Courageous Convos events. What a Historian!

23/11/2022

The heightened emphasis on theological orthodoxy among conservative Christian “Fundamentalists” led to two problematic theological trends still prominent in Western evangelicalism: 1.) a subordination of social justice to theological orthodoxy and 2.) an inconsistent public faith that selectively engages political issues while failing to address matters of systemic injustice. - Vince Bantu

21/11/2022

In sanctification, God doesn't move the ground beneath us like an escalator carrying us passively to glory. Rather, he energizes the new spirit within us to climb the rugged path of discipleship, developing inner strength and holy skill with each step. - David Gundersen