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        MONOGAMY AGAINST POLYGAMY: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF MATHEW (5:31-32) AND MARK (10:2-12) FROM CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES IN PASTORAL LEADERSHIP   A.H. Kuhanda, PhD   INTRODUCTION Monogamy against polygamy is an old age debate in Christian theology. Despite its age, this debate keeps surfacing on various circles, including the social media. Monogamy, in particular, is under assault in the secular culture of the postmodern West, and within Christianity (Bowman 2015). This debate has been a challenge to pastoral leadership in the church from the time Christianity was ushered in Africa. There has never been a unified approach to this problem among the various Christian denominations (Boult, 1981). Either, the church’s stand on monogamy, which is by far the most common, has had implication on how the church handles polygamists that turn their life to Jesus. There is now an increasing push from the new generation, demanding permission to go polyga...
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    “DAKIKA 180 GOLGOTHA” Amithay Hezekiah Kuhanda (PhD) UTANGULIZI  Maadhimisho ya Sikukuu ya Pasaka 2026 yananifanya kutafakari upya tukio la ukombozi wa mateka (waliotekwa) lijulikanavyo kama ‘Dakika 90 Entebbe’. Tukio hili la kweli la uokoaji wa mateka 103 wa kiyahudi lilitokea tarehe 4 July 1976. Anasimulia Stevenson (1976) [1] kuwa makomandoo wa Israeli walisafiri umbali wa kilomita 4000 kuja kuwakomboa ndugu zao waliokuwa wanashikiliwa na magaidi saba (7) katika uwanja wa ndege Entebbe. Mateka hao walichambuliwa na kushikiliwa kutoka kwenye ndege kubwa ya abiria (Air France, Flight 139) iliyotekwa ikiwa Ugiriki na kuelekezwa Libya, na baadaye Entebbe nchini Uganda. Makoandoo 100 wa Israeli, walioendesha ‘operesheni thunderbolt’, walifanikiwa kuwaua magaidi wote saba, askari kadhaa wa jeshi la Uganda, na kuwakomboa mateka wote, isipokuwa mateka mmoja aliyekuwa amepelekwa hospitali kutibiwa. Tukio la ‘operation thunderbolt’ lilichukua muda mfupi, dakika 90. ...