Rome, Peter, Paul, and the Multiethnic Church: Setting the Historical Record Straight

✍ Tafari Holsey In the 1st century CE, Rome was the undisputed capital of the known world — a city of perhaps one million inhabi...

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Ethiopia Before Rome: The First Christian Kingdom

✍ Tafari Holsey Ethiopia—specifically the Kingdom of Aksum—established Christianity as its state religion before Rome. This is n...

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A Priest and a Pastor Are Not the Same

✍ Tafari Holsey They share a pulpit, a Bible, and a congregation — but they do not share the same office, the same authority, or the same th...

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Rooted and Remaining Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Christianity and the Most Outwardly Judaic Expression of the Christian Faith

 ✍ Tafari Holsey All Christianity has Jewish roots. This is not a minority theological position — it is the plain historical rec...

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The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church possesses the largest biblical canon in all of Christianity.

✍ Tafari Holsey The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church possesses the largest biblical canon in all of Christianity. While most...

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How Ethiopian Solomonic Theology Connects Christ to Davidic Kingship

✍ Tafari Holsey This is a serious theological subject, so let’s treat it with precision. Ethiopian Solomonic theology does not m...

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Explain the fact that genetically Jesus Christ was not a European.

✍ Tafari Holsey The Non-European Christ: History, Genetics, and Theology The Genetic and Historical Baseline Jesus of Nazareth w...

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The Lion Roars: The Battle of Adwa at 130

✍ Tafari Holsey On the first of March, 1896, on the rocky highlands of northern Ethiopia, something happened that the architects...

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