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I'm delighted to share some news that feels like a genuine milestone in this research journey: I have been formally affiliated with the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Kenyatta University, Nairobi, for a three-year term running from October 2026 to September 2029.

This comes alongside my existing position as a Research Associate at the Wits Centre for Diversity Studies, University of the Witwatersrand — meaning my work now sits, quite literally, across two countries and two...

Look at Roman imperial propaganda from 70 CE, and you’ll find a specific coin minted by Emperor Vespasian: the Judaea Capta. It depicts a woman slumped under a palm tree, head bowed, limbs bound.

For Rome, the message was clear: We have conquered your mother-city. Your maternal body is our trophy.

But history forgot that empires do not get the last word on grief.

In my latest research, "Daughters of Sodom, Daughters of Zion, Daughters of Mary," I trace how the biblical canon systematically...

What happens to our consciousness when we die? For decades, researchers tracking After-Death Communications (ADCs) have documented stories of comfort: a sudden feeling of warmth, a familiar scent, an unbidden whisper, or a vivid dream of a lost loved one telling us they are okay.

But what if the afterlife isn't just emotional—what if it is profoundly mathematical?

An extraordinary, newly highlighted longitudinal case study titled “The Geometry of Transformed Consciousness” challenges everything...

What if the devices we use to text our loved ones in life become the very templates our minds use to process their absence in death?

In a fascinating new longitudinal study, I explore a deeply moving, five-and-a-half-year journey through grief, contemplative prayer, and anomalous visual experiences.

Published as a rigorous phenomenological case study, his paper—The Smartphone as Celestial Tablet: Digital Semiotics, Non–Local Consciousness, and the Modern Enochic Paradigm of After-Death...

On 12 December 2020, my twin soul brother died at age 47 from stage-four cryptogenic liver cirrhosis. Three years later, on 13 May 2023, at the same hospital, I myself received the identical diagnosis. Between those dates—and continuing through June 2025, I recorded a sustained sequence of anomalous experiences: recurring geometric forms that evolved into luminous structures resembling Metatron’s Cube, a solitary protective wolf figure that appeared only in moments of vulnerability, radiant...

If you’ve spent time in church, or even just around standard self-help culture, you’ve likely heard variations of the same script when tragedy strikes:

• "God has a plan."
• "He’s in a better place."
• "Time heals all wounds."
• “We need to forgive and move on.”

But what happens when the wound is a murdered child? What happens when the silence from heaven is so thick it feels like a physical wall?

When Lesley McSpadden stood over the body of her 18-year-old son, Michael Brown—left uncovered on the...

For centuries, mainstream biblical commentary handled the Book of Hosea with academic detachment or used it to police respectability. But within the African American religious tradition, this complex prophetic text became something else entirely: a blueprint for survival, a grammar of resistance, and a manifesto of fierce, protective divine love.

A groundbreaking new study is set to fundamentally reshape how we understand this history.

The forthcoming manuscript, "How Can I Give You Up?": Hosea...

Have you ever considered that a straight line could be a weapon? Or that a geometric shape could silence an entire system of spiritual knowledge?

In modern society, we are taught to view geometry as a neutral, objective branch of mathematics. We look at architectural blue-prints, city grids, and artistic proportions as matters of pure logic or simple aesthetics.

But geometry is never neutral. It is a dense cultural technology that has been used for centuries to classify bodies, partition land,...

David as the Anti-Giant

Lilith is one of the most haunting figures in the long history of biblical interpretation.

In medieval Jewish tradition, she is remembered as Adam’s first wife, created from the same earth, who refused to lie beneath him, when Adam demanded, and left Eden rather than accept hierarchy. That refusal has often been read as rebellion, but it can also be read as a claim of equality: if both were made from dust, then neither was created to dominate the other.

That...

The Earth is groaning (Romans 8:22), and so are the women and girls in South Africa’s marginalized communities.
When we talk about the climate crisis, we often speak in environmental abstractions—parts per million of carbon, shifting rainfall data, or melting ice caps. But for poor Black women in South African townships and rural settlements, the polycrisis is not an abstraction. It is an immediate threat to bodily safety.

In a forthcoming paper titled “Interpretive Resilience Amidst the...

It feels like a full-circle moment.

After months of intense work — building a quartet of papers on the biblical “grammar of height and hubris,” maternal lament, divine reversal, and relational geometry — this latest article feels like the explosive culmination. “The Silicon Tower: Artificial Intelligence, Digital Hubris, and the New Babel — A Ujamaa Centre Perspective on Revelation, Relationality, and Resistance in the Age of AI” is now complete, and it is,...

Today I received the quiet but deeply meaningful news that my article “Deror and Jubilee: biblical release as a framework for economic and ecological justice” has been published in Theology (Volume 129, Issue 3, 2026).

This feels like a significant milestone on the journey. Theology is one of the oldest and most respected theological journals in the English-speaking world — a journal with real historical weight, read across continents by scholars, pastors,...

Reflections on a New Paper

I am pleased to share that my latest article, “From the Womb of Lament to the Throne of Glory: Maternal Threshold Experience, Revelationary Hope, and the Architecture of Reversal in the Canon”, has now been submitted to Horizons in Biblical Theology.

This paper feels like the emotional and theological heart of everything I have been working on for the last several years. It completes the biblical quartet I began with “The Rhetoric of Height” and brings it into direct...

Throughout the biblical canon, power is frequently articulated through a "grammar of height." We see it in the physical stature of giants, the architectural ambition of the Tower of Babel, and the imperial grandeur of Babylon. This recurring theme of hubris—the desire to ascend, dominate, and self-exalt—is consistently met with a divine reversal that brings the lofty low.

While traditional analysis often focuses on kings and warriors as the primary agents of this reversal, a profound "maternal...

1. The Vertical Trap

In our modern era, we are possessed by a singular obsession: scaling up. We equate mass with merit and stature with success, measuring our progress by the height of our skyscrapers, the reach of our digital platforms, and the sheer density of our imperial systems. We assume that to dismantle a massive problem, we must become equally massive.

Yet the biblical narrative identifies this impulse not as strength, but as a pathology—a "grammar...

The narrative of Sodom and Gomorrah is perhaps the most enduring entry in our shared cultural encyclopedia of catastrophe. For millennia, the image of smoke rising from the plain has haunted the human imagination, serving as a recurring canonical type that warns of the fragility of civilization. Yet, in our modern rush to either dismiss the story as myth or reduce it to a singular moral transgression, we often miss the sophisticated "theological diagnostic" the biblical authors intended.

By...

The Architecture of Hubris: Why the Tallest Towers and Greatest Giants Always Fall

1. Introduction: Our Obsession with Verticality

Human history is marked by a persistent fascination with "bigness." We gravitate toward the massive, whether in the form of soaring skyscrapers, global corporations, or the "giants" of industry and politics. Yet, within the biblical imagination, this fascination is diagnosed as a spiritual pathology—the "Idolatry of the Large."...

The Easter Vigil does not begin with the ringing of bells or the triumphant shout of the Exultet. It begins in a heavy, expectant silence. Before the proclamation of "He is risen," there is the shroud of darkness. A community gathers, not yet in joy, but in a shared, breath-held anticipation. A single flame is kindled, and the long, winding narrative of creation, exile, and promise unfolds in the flickering shadows.

While this liturgical structure feels...

Introduction: Reimagining the Resurrection

In the contemporary West, Easter is often cloaked in a somber, porcelain reverence—a day of quiet reflection and hushed Alleluias. Yet, if we peer back into the high-energy liturgies of the early Church, we find a celebration that was less like a funeral and more like a riotous victory parade. At the heart of this ancient exuberance stands St. John Chrysostom and his 4th-century Paschal Homily.

Chrysostom, the...