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...