Professor Clifton Clarke

                                                                                                                                              Yesterday, I decided to make my way back to the Old City (Jerusalem). I felt I did not have enough time to think and contemplate during the last visit the day before. I wanted to spend the day there, praying and seeking God for a deeper consecration and closer walk with him. I joined a group of people holding hands and we were praying for the peace of Jerusalem, the City of David. While we were praying we notice that the Catholics were setting up for Mass. Apparently, the Catholics...

If praying does not come effortlessly for you, try these tips for making your prayer life more focused and effective.  Here some practical guidelines that might make your time with the Lord more fruitful. Not all of the suggestions will apply to your particular situation, but if you begin by incorporating a few of them, I'm confident your prayer life will improve. 1. Choose a specific place to pray away from distractions so you can concentrate. Ringing phones, bleeping messages, and crying children will sabotage your "quiet time" before it gets started. 2. Pray at the same time every day, if at all possible. Make it part of your regular routine and it will become habit. Write it into your schedule and then treat it just like a daily appointment. 3. Pray out loud. Many people can pray under their breath or in their minds for long periods and still maintain intensity, but for most of us it's a quick ticket to dreamland. When we pray out loud we have...

Clifton Clarke, PhD Introduction What has Kwame Nkrumah, W.E.B Du Bois and the Marcus Garvey got to do with speaking in tongue? Perhaps more than might be initially imagined. The title of this paper is Pan-Africanism and Pentecostalism in Africa: Strange Bedfellows or Perfect partners . My plan for this paper is a simple one. In addressing ourselves to the issue of Pan-Africanism and African Pentecostalism, I want to explore whether African Pentecostalism can assist in the constructing a Pan-African political theology. The inspiration for this paper came from three sources. First and foremost from my reading of the various nineteenth and twentieth century prominent West Indian Pan-Africanist over the years, including Marcus Garvey, Henry Sylvester Williams, George Padmore, Edward Wilmot Blyden as well as significant African advocates such as Kwame Nkrumah, James (Holy) Johnson, Haile Selassie, Jomo Kenyatta along with American Pan-Africanist such as W.E. B. Du Bois, Henry G...