Hon. Paul Yoane Bonju is a Member of the South Sudanese National Legislative Assembly. He previously served as the host of Christian radio owned by the South Sudanese Council of Churches. He is one of the few South Sudanese MPs who attended the last two consecutive African Biblical Leadership (ABLI) Forums. He has a passion for the place of the Bible in public life and the role of the Church in bringing peace and reconciliation. We sat with him to reflect on the Bible, public life and polit... Read more
Author: Hon. Paul Yoane Bonju. Published: 03/10/2016
Hon. Paul Yoane Bonju is a Member of the South Sudanese National Legislative Assembly. He previously served as the host of Christian radio owned by the South Sudanese Council of Churches. He is one of the few South Sudanese MPs who attended the last two consecutive African Biblical Leadership Initiative (ABLI) Forums. He has a passion for the place of the Bible in public life and the role of the Church in bringing peace and reconciliation. We sat with him to reflect on the Bible, public lif... Read more
Author: Hon. Paul Yoane Bonju. Published: 27/09/2016
Today marks the start of this year's African Biblical Leadership Initiative. But what's it all about? Lord Paul Boateng, former ABLI moderator, tells us more. Read more
Author: Naomi Dunn . Published: 26/09/2016
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Author: Marcos Buzzelli. Published: 29/08/2016
Facilitating discussion in schools and universities, this Bible advocacy project aims to develop a future generation who are confident in living out the Bible in their workplace. Read more
Author: Naomi Dunn. Published: 22/08/2016
Costa Rica is a country with a long history of peace, and a government that is very stable. Unlike other Latin American nations, this small country has suffered just one coup d'état in its entire history (if indeed we can call it by that name), and as a direct result of that the army was abolished. Read more
Author: Mayra Ugalde. Published: 15/08/2016
Donald Trump, the republican presidential nominee, is not a conventional republican. Nor is he a conventional democrat. Well, he is not a conventional politician of any sort. The only ideological framework that captures his ever-moving political positions seems to be “trumpocracy” – the term I first heard being used by Jon Stewart, the former Daily Show host. His rise to a political prominence has surprised even veteran politicians. Baffled, Tony Blair recently surmised, "Sometimes I ... Read more
Author: M. Girma. Published: 08/08/2016
I am sitting side-by-side with my son, Kenny as I write this article. He is feverishly banging out the keys of a 1,000 word blog post titled, ‘How I Earned My First $100: A Middle Grader’s Business Journal.’ Kenny will also be creating cool Lego animations as well to see if more kids grab onto his message. As of now, he’s toying with the idea of calling it Kidnamics. By the way, Kenny is an 11-year-old, 5th-grader. Read more
Author: Ken Carfagno. Published: 01/08/2016
In the Western democratic context, it’s not hard to argue that the contribution of the Bible to civic engagement is unparalleled. From the language we use to the process and institutions that we now take for granted, the Bible has been the slow-burning, consistent factor for many of the social goods of civil society. Building on successive historical waves of application of biblical principles to our social structures and relations, it could be argued that the last great wave of scriptural eng... Read more
Author: Dave Landrum is. Published: 25/07/2016
Leaders from across Africa gather every year to see what the Bible has to say about their decisions. They’ve been meeting like this at the African Biblical Leadership Initiative (ABLI) since 2010. Six years on, here are six remarkable ways the Bible is shaping their thinking... Read more
Author: Helen Crawford. Published: 18/07/2016
