Rev Dr Israel Oluwole Olofinjana
Rev Dr Israel Oluwole Olofinjana is lead minister of Colchester Baptist Church. He is an African public missiologist with a focus on intercultural justice. He was former director of the One People Commission (OPC), an intercultural network of the Evangelical Alliance. He is the founding director of the Centre for Missionaries from the Majority World, a mission network initiative that provides cross-cultural training to reverse missionaries in Britain. Israel is an honorary research fellow at the Queen’s Foundation for Ecumenical Theological Education and on the advisory group of ICCT-WEAVE, an intercultural church initiative. He is on the Christian Aid working group of Black majority church leaders and a member of Tearfund’s theology committee. He is a co-director at Christ Theological College (CTC) Centre for World Christianity and a patron of the Anglican Network of Intercultural Churches (ANIC). He is also on the council of reference of Moorlands College
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OpinionJason Arday’s death asks hard questions of the Church
The shocking death of Cambridge University’s youngest Black professor comes after weeks of relentless press scrutiny. Rev Dr Israel Oluwole Olofinjana wonders whether Black success will always be on trial
OpinionEnough politics. The Church needs to offer a theological view on immigration
As public opinion hardens and political rhetoric intensifies, many Christians are absorbing the same political narratives about immigration as everyone else. But the Evangelical Alliance’s Israel Olofinjana believes scripture presents a different story – one in which migration is not merely a crisis to manage, but a means through which God fulfils his purposes
Magazine FeaturesReverse mission: Why African evangelists are blessing Europe
Historically, missionaries were sent out from Europe into the rest of the world. But as Christianity continues to decline in the West, many Christians from the Global South now see us as the mission field. Rev Dr Israel Olofinjana explains
OpinionTwo years on from George Floyd, it’s time for the Church to stop making excuses
If we want to see the transgenerational trauma of slavery and racism properly healed, the call for reparative justice cannot be ignored says Rev Dr Israel Oluwole Olofinjana
