Report on Witchcraft Colloquium, AIU, March 2013

Guest post by Maggie Gitau Crazed by Nollywood A couple days ago, a friend told me of an interesting incident that occurred in her home in Nairobi Eastlands.
The Missing Link

This post is not about evolutionary biology. Nor is it about a recent citing of Bigfoot. Rather this post is about my recent discovery of the missing link between my post-secondary education and my pastoral ministry: anthropology. Anthropology is the study of humans. Except for one required course in Spanish Linguistics, I finished college and…
On the Meaning of the Words “Witch,” “Witchcraft,” and “Sorcery”

I was 16 years old, and had just arrived in the USA. John asked me my favorite sport. I replied, “football.” When I learned that he also loved “football,” we launched into an animated conversation that became quite confusing. Only when I remembered that the word “football” in the USA was used for a sport…