This episode is part of my podcast series DEAR ATHEIST… If you prefer, LISTEN NOW. ***** “God loves you,” I say, as I hand over a printed pamphlet containing my testimony to a young child on the street. Her mother snatches the paper from her hands and slams it back into […]
This episode is part of my podcast series DEAR ATHEIST… If you prefer, LISTEN NOW. ***** That Saturday, I took Angela and Lucy to visit with my mother in Boston. It’s a trip we haven’t taken in many years. I had stayed away after Lucy’s birth, unable to understand nor stand […]
This episode is part of my podcast series DEAR ATHEIST… If you prefer, LISTEN NOW. ***** I hear a sound in the distance. It’s dull at first, and then becomes sharper, piercing through my brain until my eyes open. I open them wide, as I take in my surroundings. Where am […]
This episode is part of my podcast series DEAR ATHEIST… If you prefer, LISTEN NOW. ***** We were immediately flooded with light; indescribable brilliance. And I knew I was in the presence of God. I was temporarily blinded by the light until my eyes adjusted to the brightness of it. Pretty […]
This episode is part of my podcast series DEAR ATHEIST… If you prefer, LISTEN NOW. ***** Samuel rose up and walked towards the ocean. I got up and dusted some sand off me. When I turned back to follow him, there was a path created in the waters. I can’t say […]
This episode is part of my podcast series DEAR ATHEIST… If you prefer, LISTEN NOW. ***** That question hit me like a ton of bricks. Of course this was more than my death. This was a woman I built a life with…only for her to discover me at my passing. It […]
This episode is part of my podcast series DEAR ATHEIST… If you prefer, LISTEN NOW. ***** We walked through the doors of my high school auditorium into the cafeteria of my university campus. The hustle and bustle was as it always was, with freshmen moving in their clicks; girls in their […]
This episode is part of my podcast series DEAR ATHEIST… If you prefer, LISTEN NOW. ***** The scent of lavender filled the air, bringing with it the nostalgic memory of Rachel, my very first crush. She had the longest, golden, wavy hair that dropped down to her butt, and thick, long, […]
This episode is part of my podcast series DEAR ATHEIST… If you prefer, LISTEN NOW. ***** “Quiet please!” My third grade Religious Studies teacher was such a contradiction. She was the least pious or humble person you’d ever meet. Even as children we could tell that she didn’t quite agree with […]
This episode is part of my podcast series DEAR ATHEIST… If you prefer, LISTEN NOW. ***** I turned from the scene as I couldn’t continue to watch. The sight of my parents looking so happy, probably the happiest I’ve ever seen them, was too much. And my father passed away ten […]
This episode is part of my podcast series DEAR ATHEIST… If you prefer, LISTEN NOW. ***** I wake up to consciousness. All around me is fire, but it doesn’t burn. The strangest thing. There are many people around. Some of them are crying and screaming. I turn to look at what […]
3 The depression stays with her for days. Ochuko continues to study her Bible, but there’s a disconnect. I don’t know how to love You like I love him… Do to Me what you did to love him… The words, spoken in her spirit, are like a light […]
1 Golden rays of sunlight filter through the slits of the blinds, grazing her ebony cheekbone, where a stray tear drop lingers and glistens. Remorse and shame, like the cool winter breeze, blow over Ochuko where she lies. Tugging the covers, she passes a hand over her cheek […]
THIS EPISODE IS NOW LIVE! Michael took a late afternoon flight from Los Angeles on Tuesday and, with a short stopover at Amsterdam, arrived on Wednesday evening at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos. It was the most convenient and fastest return route he could take, as he […]
THIS EPISODE IS NOW LIVE! It was the morning of Samson’s arraignment at the Regional Magistrate Court of Lagos. Mary, Ifeanyi and Samuel were in attendance. The court room was quite vacant, with only a few family and friends coming to support the plaintiff. Mary looked across at […]
Grace and Truth 