Luviri Press

This teaching guide for qualitative research offers a methodological approach to qualitative studies with ethnographic and phenomenological approaches. Mary Sibande explores the social, cultural and...

This book is largely concerned with not just the history of women's ordination, or even of Baptists and women's ordination, but offers perspectives from history that may be useful for the discussion...

Author: Lawrence J. H. ChipaoPublisher: Luviri PressPublication Date: Jul 20, 2017Number of Pages: 124 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 9996096890ISBN-13: 9789996096891

When a thousand leading members of the Nyasaland African Congress were detained under the emergency regulations imposed by the Federation government in 1959, the Presbyterian chaplains who ministered...

The missionaries have often been accused of having destroyed African cultures, be it deliberately or because they did not understand. The author draws a very different picture in his study of a...

Malawi Assemblies of God church embarked on a feasible journey of Vision 2020 that included every established church to plant one church and send one student to Bible school each year. From the time...

Climate change constitutes a harsh reality for the people of Malawi. The frequency of extreme climate events continues to rise. Altered rainfall patterns, droughts, and tropical storms have become a...

In October 1896, a squadron of "Deutsche Schutztuppe" forces erected a camp on Mount Mary, near to the mission station that King Matundo was having built. A night battle between local people and the...

Hudson Taylor (1832 - 1905) war nicht nur Gr?nder der bekannten China Inland Mission, sondern er rief, ohne es zu beabsichtien, eine ganz neue Missionsbewegung ins Leben, die neue Kr?fe f?r die...

Can an African soldier be loyal to his British regiment and stay true to his own society and its beliefs? Juma Chimwere believes he must! Distinguished Conduct recounts a Malawian msilikali? life of...

Patrick Kalilombe has been distinguished for more than twenty-five years as a pioneering theologian and ecclesiologist. Circumstances have determined that much of his best work has been...

Unity of knowledge is not easily achieved in today?s Africa where often there is little conscious interaction between traditional beliefs, Christian faith and modern secularity. The challenge is...

Over the last decades, an ever-growing gap has developed between traditional marriage and the officiation of it as a church wedding, because of the expenses involved in a "proper" church wedding...

This book outlines the contribution of the Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Conception (MIC Sisters) towards girl child education in Malawi with particular focus on the establishment, growth and...

Between 1992 and 1994 Malawi underwent a remarkable transition from dictatorship to democracy. Truly a transformation of power! Yet this period of profound change raised many issues of power and...

Stephen Kauta Msiska was ordained to the ministry in 1945 and served the Livingstonia Synod in a number of lakeshore parishes before being appointed first a tutor and later Principal of the...

This book is a collection of essays written in the early 1990s. Some are an attempt to think theologically about the social and political changes and challenges that Malawi was navigating during...

Independent African, first published in 1958, is still one of the few serious attempts to write a history of an African Rising against European rule south of the Sahara. The career of the Reverend...

Whereas Victorian optimists imagined that armed conflict would gradually disappear as the world continued to head for universal peace and prosperity, the 20th century wiped out any such illusions...

Jesus - the Man for others is a contemporary expression of the Gospel message, with many references about how it was appropriated over the centuries, and as illustrated in art. The author, a Catholic...

Malawi's first two Presbyterian ministers, Harry Kambwiri Matecheta and Stephen Kundecha, were ordained in March 1911. Ecclesiastically, this made them fully equal with their European...

Africa was not evangelized by the European (and American) churches, but by the European (and American) mission societies, a process that thoroughly changed the religious geography of Africa. This...

A common misconception found in popular, and even some scholarly, literature is that "the missionaries" are a homogeneous category about whom it is easy to make broad generalisations. When a more...

Rev Leonard Muocha was, from 1971 till 1987, the leader of the African Baptist Assembly, much better known as Providence Industrial Mission (PIM). This was a mission of the American National Baptist...

The right of women to preach in church is a contentious issue in a number of churches in Malawi. Where women are not allowed to preach, usually reference is made to the Apostle Paul, who, from the...

Proverbs are the Wisdom and Philosophy of the Tonga People, who live on the North Western shores of Lake Malawi (the "Lakeside Tonga"), they serve as powerful vehicles to convey moral instructions to...

In Malawi and probably in other parts of Africa, many Christians believe that God created man and women unequal, the (male) man first, and then the woman to be the man's helper or maybe even servant...

Possibly the most outstanding Malawian church leader of the 1960s and 1970s was the Very Reverend Jonathan Sangaya, General Secretary of the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian (CCAP) Synod of...

Andreya Soko manages to win the love of his college mate, Sekani Zuza, the most beautiful, most sought-after girl in college. After finishing college, Andreya works hard to save for Sekani's bride...

Sursum Corda describes highlights from the author's missionary experience in Africa, where he taught Anglican seminarians in Lesotho in the 1980s and two decades later continued this ministry in...