David *Objection* Ngong
@profngong.bsky.social
Scholar of Religions in Africa. Author of *Senghor's Eucharist* (https://www.baylorpress.com/9781481317795/senghors-eucharist/ 2023). Africa Section Editor, Religion Compass. Research: https://stillman.academia.edu/DavidNgong
"A real evil should not be fought against at the cost of greater misery."
~ Pope Paul VI, "Popularum Progresso"
~ Pope Paul VI, "Popularum Progresso"
May 13, 2025 at 12:08 PM
"A real evil should not be fought against at the cost of greater misery."
~ Pope Paul VI, "Popularum Progresso"
~ Pope Paul VI, "Popularum Progresso"
V. Y. Mudimbe (1941-2025), baobab of African Studies. He taught us that "Africa" is a product of a "colonial library."
April 23, 2025 at 2:48 AM
V. Y. Mudimbe (1941-2025), baobab of African Studies. He taught us that "Africa" is a product of a "colonial library."
Today is Holy Saturday. Jesus Christ is dead and buried, and the forces of power and evil stand triumphant, mocking the hopes of the weak. But only for a while....
Jesus is buried.
Artwork by Fr. Engelbert Mveng
Jesus is buried.
Artwork by Fr. Engelbert Mveng
April 19, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Today is Holy Saturday. Jesus Christ is dead and buried, and the forces of power and evil stand triumphant, mocking the hopes of the weak. But only for a while....
Jesus is buried.
Artwork by Fr. Engelbert Mveng
Jesus is buried.
Artwork by Fr. Engelbert Mveng
Bonhoeffer at his existential best.
April 19, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Bonhoeffer at his existential best.
This book contains findings of a study on forgiveness carried out among Black and white Christians in Cape Town, South Africa. For Black Christians, forgiveness after apartheid should include economic redistribution. Not so for white Christians.
April 13, 2025 at 11:27 PM
This book contains findings of a study on forgiveness carried out among Black and white Christians in Cape Town, South Africa. For Black Christians, forgiveness after apartheid should include economic redistribution. Not so for white Christians.
"The words in this book, although they concern action, are not action itself. They can only allude to it. That is the only dignity they have. If what they refer to doesn't exist, they have no dignity at all - for author or for reader."
~Hugo Assmann.
~Hugo Assmann.
April 12, 2025 at 2:50 AM
"The words in this book, although they concern action, are not action itself. They can only allude to it. That is the only dignity they have. If what they refer to doesn't exist, they have no dignity at all - for author or for reader."
~Hugo Assmann.
~Hugo Assmann.
Dang, law firms are caving!
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
April 2, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Dang, law firms are caving!
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
The Annunciation
Luke 1
Luke 1
March 30, 2025 at 3:31 PM
The Annunciation
Luke 1
Luke 1
Universities used to talk about shared governance. I guess the shared governance is between the president of the United States and university administrators.
March 23, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Universities used to talk about shared governance. I guess the shared governance is between the president of the United States and university administrators.
This book, by assassinated Cameroonian Roman Catholic theologian Angelbert Mveng, charts the Stations of the Cross following the funeral traditions of the Bamoum people of West Cameroon. The art is colored black for suffering, red for life, and white for mourning.
March 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
This book, by assassinated Cameroonian Roman Catholic theologian Angelbert Mveng, charts the Stations of the Cross following the funeral traditions of the Bamoum people of West Cameroon. The art is colored black for suffering, red for life, and white for mourning.
So there's this thing called Columbia Global, which is apparently associated with Columbia University. It is going to be talking about youth activism in Kenya when youth are not allowed to be activists at Columbia University.
March 19, 2025 at 1:15 PM
So there's this thing called Columbia Global, which is apparently associated with Columbia University. It is going to be talking about youth activism in Kenya when youth are not allowed to be activists at Columbia University.
Twitter's function is no longer a secret.
March 15, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Twitter's function is no longer a secret.
I Googled "Kierkegaard and" and this 👇🏿 is what came up. What I was looking for was "Kierkegaard and Frederick Douglass." That combination has not entered Google's vocabulary, but both have similar thoughts about Christianity in their time.
March 10, 2025 at 12:15 AM
I Googled "Kierkegaard and" and this 👇🏿 is what came up. What I was looking for was "Kierkegaard and Frederick Douglass." That combination has not entered Google's vocabulary, but both have similar thoughts about Christianity in their time.
Books I'm meditating with for Lent. Bonhoeffer was a student of Kierkegaard. Their Christianity was so radical that you might not recognize much of what is going on today as Christianity. Kierkegaard thought Christians in his day were not even trying to be Christians.
March 9, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Books I'm meditating with for Lent. Bonhoeffer was a student of Kierkegaard. Their Christianity was so radical that you might not recognize much of what is going on today as Christianity. Kierkegaard thought Christians in his day were not even trying to be Christians.
"The First Amendment...guarantees that the government cannot direct what Georgetown and its faculty teach and how to teach it"
March 7, 2025 at 1:38 AM
"The First Amendment...guarantees that the government cannot direct what Georgetown and its faculty teach and how to teach it"
So far, the focus has been on how enslaved Africans in the diaspora appropriated and spread Christianity. This book tells the story of how Africans who were enslaved by missionaries inside Africa appropriated and spread Christianity in the continent.
February 24, 2025 at 2:08 AM
So far, the focus has been on how enslaved Africans in the diaspora appropriated and spread Christianity. This book tells the story of how Africans who were enslaved by missionaries inside Africa appropriated and spread Christianity in the continent.
Prof. Emmanuel Katongole has just reviewed my book over @ReadingReligion:
"Senghor’s Eucharist is a brilliant, original, and engaging interdisciplinary piece of scholarship that confirms Ngong as a key voice of African political theology."
readingreligion.org/978148131779...
"Senghor’s Eucharist is a brilliant, original, and engaging interdisciplinary piece of scholarship that confirms Ngong as a key voice of African political theology."
readingreligion.org/978148131779...
February 22, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Prof. Emmanuel Katongole has just reviewed my book over @ReadingReligion:
"Senghor’s Eucharist is a brilliant, original, and engaging interdisciplinary piece of scholarship that confirms Ngong as a key voice of African political theology."
readingreligion.org/978148131779...
"Senghor’s Eucharist is a brilliant, original, and engaging interdisciplinary piece of scholarship that confirms Ngong as a key voice of African political theology."
readingreligion.org/978148131779...
Just how apartheid worked - for white South Africans only.
February 8, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Just how apartheid worked - for white South Africans only.
Two weeks in and someone has already seen the need to gaslight us. I guess someone is worried.
February 6, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Two weeks in and someone has already seen the need to gaslight us. I guess someone is worried.
That's the veteran Brazilian liberation theologian Leonardo Boff.
January 30, 2025 at 3:03 AM
That's the veteran Brazilian liberation theologian Leonardo Boff.
This is making the rounds on my whatsapp group
January 23, 2025 at 1:45 PM
This is making the rounds on my whatsapp group
Read Ben Okri's Sartrian novel.
January 5, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Read Ben Okri's Sartrian novel.
