The study of post-exilic literature posits community decline as a ‘miss-take’ of community objectives. This is mostly due to predominantly myopic leadership and consequential breakdown of community. Narrow vision leads to egocentric looking out for ‘ number one. ’ Many development proponents have referenced the biblical book of Nehemiah as a template for community restoration. While I concur with the gist of their proposition, I cannot help but note the vicious cycles of temporal healing and relapse of communities. Sometimes the golden years last a generation but when that generation is gone then the relapse takes the community back to square one. Intellectual solutions have the bane of smart sound bites because a lot of the proponents do not have boots on the ground and advocate for theories they have not tested. Picture this, a single mother in Uganda has raised a f...
Motivational and Meditational Tidbits from a Missionary in the Sahel... Drawing parallels from post exilic Literature... Nehemiah Ezra etc...