Nigeria is a large West African country, more than 900 000 km more than 900 000 km 2 2 in area – nearly in area – nearly four times the size of the UK. Despite four times the size of the UK. Despite having a population of about 117 million having a population of about 117 million people, 42% of whom live in cities, Nigeria people, 42% of whom live in cities, Nigeria has about half the populatio...

A TALE FROM twelfth-century Germany introduces this lecture. It concerns, a kindly woman and her neighbour whose son was very ill. In an effort to help save the child, she produced a pebble and recommended to the child’s mother that she make a revitalising drink by steeping it in water. There was nothing unusual about this sort of domestic remedy, yet her wellintentioned iniative met with rebuf...

It seems possible that Sabbath observance among the Copts in Egypt and Ethiopia may have passed through three stages: I) Only the seventh-day Sabbath observed-from apostolic times until the Council of Nicea; 2) Sunday and the seventh-day Sabbath both observed-from the Council of Nicea until perhaps a century or two later; and 3) only Sunday designated as a day of public worship-a practice still...