https://archive.rustgeek.me/tags/religion/ Recent content in Religion on A Geek's Life Hugo en Sun, 08 Jan 2017 18:03:22 +0000 https://archive.rustgeek.me/2017/01/08/07-of-sons-and-prodigals/ Sun, 08 Jan 2017 18:03:22 +0000 https://archive.rustgeek.me/2017/01/08/07-of-sons-and-prodigals/ <p><img loading="lazy" src="https://archive.rustgeek.me/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/68631-65784-1k0-28glpsfrpkcxmcvbyga.jpeg">Amidst the rolling, changing landscape that is my recollection of growing up, two things remain as immutable constants; the university communities I spent most of my growing years till turning seventeen and churches— searching, attending, serving in, and leaving them.</p> <p>In my first memories of church, my father and I are in Benin City, at the Air Force officers christian fellowship. The University Chapel in the next town, Ekpoma, becomes church for the five or so years following our relocation; the desire being to bring both sides of the family together for good. The trigger for a change of state is, in my memory, an acrimonious debate about what direction to take the chapel in, one which leads to us joining up with a fledgling pentecostal startup in a city further north, eventually leading to us being foundation members of a branch of that church, when it rolls into our corner of the world.</p>