Dave Chikosi

Bishop Dave Chikosi: "In my view the blame should be placed squarely on the shoulders of two groups of leaders: the papas in churches and the politicians in government. The church papas have not only jumped into bed with politicians to get…
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By Bishop Dave Chikosi The price for political access is never cheap. The cost of political access for church leaders is usually uncritical support and total alignment with the political status quo. Politics is an “all or nothing” game.…
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Bishop Dave C Chikosi: "Voting folk are somewhat similar to church folk. One usually doesn’t join a church because it has a better version of the theology of the Trinity, or of the doctrine of eschatology. People join churches because they…
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By Dave C. Chikosi “I don’t like that. It doesn’t matter that it’s Jesus saying it, I don’t like that!” My first response to this now-gone-viral visceral reaction by Rev Makandiwa to Jesus’ command to “bless those who curse” you was…
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By Dave Chikosi “I want this guy to win so bad it hurts,” US President Bill Clinton once told his Deputy Secretary of State. The year was 1996. President Clinton was going to do everything in his power to help Boris Yeltsin become a…
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By Bishop Dave Chikosi I am not even going to pretend that this is not controversial theologically because it is. But I figured since both Catholics and Protestants generally seem to be now singing from the same hymn book vis-à-vis…
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By Dave C. Chikosi Most Christians have no problem with the veneration of heroes of the War of Independence. Most would have no problem with erection of statues of regular revolutionaries like Chitepo, Nkomo, Masuku, Parirenyatwa,…
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By Dave Chikosi 'Forgive us for every act of injustice or corruption that has made the poor to suffer or the innocent to die."  This was a worthy and very commendable prayer by President Mnangagwa at Zimbabwe’s National Day of…
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By Dave C. Chikosi Fast forward to April 2020, and a little known Zimbabwean medical doctor on a social media platform publicly aims a golden arrow at the heart of one of Zimbabwe’s most well-known bachelorette. Not only does Dr Cupid…
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By Bishop Dave Chikosi This is a generation that worships at the altar of the god of rationality and critical thinking. This god is fashionable because no one, in their rational mind, wants to be called irrational. There is no quicker…
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