In a recent survey of 437 missionaries from the USA serving in eighty countries,[1] I asked “In your current country of ministry, how many people have you known that were accused by others of harming someone else through witchcraft?” A slight majority of the 68 missionaries in African countries (52%) reported knowing such a person,…

A Guest Post by Dr. Tim Stabell Hi Bob, I’ve done a couple of small-scale replication studies based on the information you sent me a couple of months ago, looking at how students in the two universities where I teach here in Congo respond to questions about their experience with accusations of witchcraft. I haven’t…

A few nights ago a visiting pastor from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (let’s call him Rev. Basua) came to my room in Bangui, CAR where I’ve been visiting, to tell me a story about witchcraft and to show me his accompanying home-made video. The story concerned his brother-in-law (let’s call him Nzuzi), a…

The Henry Center welcomes Michael Glerup, Executive Director of the Center for Early African Christianity at Eastern University. He is engaged in exciting work with Thomas Oden and others who are concerned about the future of Christianity in Africa. As the ancient Akan principle of Sankofa says, “We must go back and reclaim our past…