One of the most disturbing questions of our times in Eastern Africa, and Kenya in particular, is: has Christianity that began as a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, shifted to being material-minded? Are the modern ...

In this article I argue that the Church has a strategic responsibility for property and finance. Three modes of ecclesiastical property exist, for example movables, offerings and funded property. Parallel to the possession ...

The article will consider the issues of financial cooperation rather than autonomy as a means of growth in the early years of the Natal Vicariate 1851-1903. It covers the period of the first two bishops in Natal, Allard ...

The second half of the 20th century was characterised by hardship for African people. This state of affairs also pervaded the Christian churches, and in the Methodist Church in Zimbabwe some white missionaries promulgated ...

This article focuses on a number of different but interrelated issues concerning Pentecostalism. Noteworthy, in terms of money matters, are references to the fact that Pentecostalism started among mostly poor people. ...

This article will address the historical tensions that the impoverished state of many African Independent Churches (AICs) caused in South Africa. Such tensions have often led to divisions and breakaways within the AIC ...

The prison diary ascribed to Vibia Perpetua, who presumably died a martyr’s death in Carthage in 203, contains the tenets of an early North African Christian identity. The article investigates this identity as the formation ...