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Research Areas
social-scientific criticism of the Bible, African Biblical interpretation, the bible/religion and social-cultural issues, interreligious relations, and religion and mental health.,
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Lecturer in Biblical Studies PhD: University of Gloucestershire 2020, Master of Theology: University of Edniburgh 2016, MBA: University of Malawi 2011, Bachelor of Theology, University of Malawi,2004
Publications
- Journal Article
From a public thief to benefactor: Using the fusion of horizons to read Luke 19:1-10 in Malawi (2025)
https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v81i2.10728
- Journal Article
God and biodiversity in Malawi: an environmental reading of Genesis 1 (2025)
DOI: 10.4314/jh.v33i1.3
- Book Chapters
Religion and Post-Conflict Humanitarian Healthcare: Reflections on Dzaleka Refugee Churches and Trauma Care in Malawi. In: Kilonzo, S.M., Chitando, E. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Religion, Health and Development in Africa. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. (2025)
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-62891-7_34-1
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African Traditional Religions Revisited : Dynamics in Indigenous Religions in 21st Century Africa ; Essays in Honour of Monsignor Professor Joseph Chaphadzika Chakanza, University of Bamberg Press (2024)
DOI:10.20378/irb-98087
- Book Chapters
From the Bush to Social Media : Dynamics in the Practice of Traditional Medicine in Contemporary Malawi. In Ndekha, Louis ; Bachmann, Judith ; Munyenyembe, Rhodian ; Kügler, Joachim (Eds.), African Traditional Religions Revisited : Dynamics in Indigenous Religions in 21st Century Africa ; Essays in Honour of Monsignor Professor Joseph Chaphadzika Chakanza, Bamberg : University of Bamberg, pp196-216 (2024)
10.20378/irb-106016
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Identity and Socio-Economic Relations in Luke’s Gospel : The Sermon on the Plain (Lk 6:20-49) and Greco-Roman Panegyrics (2023)
DOI: 10.20378/irb-90377
- Book Chapters
The Strong and the Weak and the Covid-Vaccine Controversy: Reading Romans 14 in Malawi. In J. Kugler and K. Geis, COVID-19, Vaccination and Religions (pp. 75-86), University of Bamberg Press). (2023)
10.20378/irb-90290
- Book Chapters
Loving the Enemy and Mob Justice in Malawi: A Contextual Reading of Luke 6:27-29. in edited Helen Paynter and Michael Spalione (Eds), Global Perspectives on the Bible and Violence (pp. 35-50). Sheffield Phoenix Press. (2023)
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- Journal Article
‘Go and Do Like Wise’: Jesus and Rhetorical Syncrisis in the Parable of the ‘Magnanimous’ Samaritan (Luke 10: 25-37)’. Neutestamentica 56(2), pp. 301-316. (2022)
https://hdl.handle.net/10520/ejc-neotest_v56_n2_a5
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I am not strong to dig and I am afraid to beg”: Social status and status concern in the Parable of the Dishonest Steward (Lk 16:1–9)’, HTS Teologiese Studies 77(4), a6372. (2021)
https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v77i4.6372.
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Praising the Poor and Blaming the Rich: A Panegyric Reading of Luke 6:0-49 in Malawian Context, HTS TeologieseStudies 76(4), a6065 (2020)
https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i4.6065.
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Zechariah the Model Priest: Luke and the Characterisation of Ordinary Priests in Luke-Acts”, HTS Teologiese Studies 74, (1), 4916. (2018)
https://doi.org/ 10.4102/hts. v74i1.4916.
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Jesus and human development: An interrogation of the gospel tradition. Journal of Humanities, 24, 45-64. (2016)
https://www.ajol.info/index.php/jh/article/view/151934.
- Journal Article
Ambivalence in Interreligious Relations in Malawi: Is an African Model of Interreligious Relations Possible?” Journal of Theology for Southern Africa, No. 152 (July 2015), 114-131. (2015)
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- Journal Article
Globalisation and the Changing Context of the Mission of the Church in Africa, Religion and Culture, 2, 29-35. (2015)
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- Journal Article
The Daughters of Zelophehad and African Women’s Rights: A Malawian Perspective on the Book of Numbers 27:1-11”, Journal of Gender and Religion in Africa, Vol.19, No 2, 37-51. (2013)
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