Kimion Tagwirei
Biographic Data
| ID | 960188 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kimion Tagwirei |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kimion |
| FAMILY NAME | Tagwirei |
| SIGNATURE | TAGWIREI K |
| AFFILIATIONS | North-West University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2109-1170 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Serving like Joseph can save Zimbabwe
Paradoxically, Zimbabwe is so rich in natural, material and human resources, yet it is plagued by crises due to poor leadership. Providentially, spirituality retains a strong influence in national affairs. Sadly, strategic engagement is missing. Many Christian and traditional leaders neglect active politics while a few engage, and others become national leaders without offering transformational strategies. Despite their failure, spiritual leaders…
Christian leadership by followership
African Christian leadership has been blurred by a number of unchristian traits, such as self centredness, self-glorification, lack of accountability and ineffectiveness. There is an urgent need for remnant Christian leaders to exemplify Christ-like leadership for incumbent and upcoming leaders, so that we can learn from them. While considerable scholarship has examined leadership abuses in African Pentecostalism, limited attention has, however, …
Healing together
Today, substance use disorder is a pandemic in Zimbabwe, mostly because of political and economic crises and consequential societal despair. Several clinical and sociological studies with a major focus on saving youth from the scourge have been published. However, little attention has been given to the possible contribution of spirituality to serving people of all ages. Despite the availability of voluminous clinical and sociological intervention…
Nipping Church (ab)use of AI in the bud with theological training in Zimbabwe
Although the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) in Zimbabwe has been generally slow, because of manifold factors, its use is gradually increasing in all sectors, including religion. Multiple studies have explored the problems and solutions of AI in science, education and other areas but there is a gap regarding the use and abuse of AI in churches in Zimbabwe. Because the Church ought to be the salt and light of the world (Mathew 5:13–16), i…
Enough is not enough! Confronting church leadership’s mental health in Zimbabwe
Mental health is highly problematic in Zimbabwe because of personal, political, socio-economic and ecological crises. While church leaders predominantly face personal and leadership pressures, they are expected to enhance holistic societal well-being. As such, church leaders are under pressure to serve both the church and society from mental health issues. Sadly, the mental health of church leaders is ignored. Consequently, many clerical leaders …
(Dis)Abling church spaces
Since time immemorial, the Church has had much to say about people living with disabilities in and beyond its walls. Commendably, in Zimbabwe, the Church has established and supported schools for people with hearing, visual, physical and psychological impairments. A lot has been said and published about the Church and disabilities, especially concerning church-driven empowerment and inclusion. However, in reality, and hypocritically, infrastructu…
(Dis)regarding the contemporary Church as the peacemaker in Zimbabwe Kimion Tagwirei
It is life-bearing to sustain the condition and place of the Church as the salt, light and conscience of the Church in society. Contemporaneously, in the Zimbabwean context of tragic political and socio-economic conflict, the Church appears to be ineffective at fostering peace, healing and reconciliation, mainly because of corruption, state capture, factionalism and a passive approach to addressing national crises. However, disregarding the Churc…
Decolonising the Church for Sustainable Development in Africa
African ecclesiology and development have been highly influenced by the way White Missionaries Christianised Africa. Since Africa regained its independence, progressive scholarly attention was given to the decolonisation discourse, but ecclesial mission continues to bear retrogressive marks of colonial missiology. As Christianity has grown massively in Africa, while declining in Europe and the West, missionary trajectories have changed and a need…
Rebuilding the broken walls of Zimbabwe with the Church, leadership and followership
Biblically and historically, Christianity is meant to enlighten people, transform lives, and develop responsible and effective leaders and followers who influence life-building change across generations and borders. Somehow, even while churches mushroom everywhere, selfishness, irresponsible citizenship, moral decadence, systematic corruption, and related travails proliferate and are sinking Zimbabwe into monumental political, economic and social…
From Fivefold to Five-in-One Ministry
In Southern Africa in recent years, the governance and ecclesiologies of mega-Pentecostal churches have been drifting away from upholding collective and complementary fivefold ministries to individualistic and selfish five-in-one ministries. Studies indicate that a fivefold ministry advances inclusive ecclesiological leadership, edification, and transformational integral mission. At present, mega and related forms of emerging neo-Pentecostalism h…
Doing the Word
Southern African societies are presently beleaguered by manifold socio-economic, political, and environmental challenges. Ordinary people long for answers to questions about how to mitigate these challenges. Meanwhile, the Church mostly preaches the gospel and establishes and grows denominations across the world. Proclaiming the gospel in word is good; however, without demonstrating the gospel with transformational deeds, the Church remains Salva…
Serving the needy from the greedy
When the economy turned downwards across most African nations over the past two decades hitherto today, multifarious neo-Pentecostal churches correspondingly multiplied in and beyond the Global South. While it ordinarily appeared to be a revolutionary Africanisation of Christian revival through massive indigenous evangelisation and establishment of new denominations, countless leading prophetic apostles were selfishly enriching themselves paradox…
Rethinking the identity and economic sustainability of the Church
With burgeoning economic challenges that have been hard-pressing Zimbabwe for more than a decade, most Zimbabwean classical Pentecostal churches who do not strategically multiply their revenue in reciprocal correspondence with God-given resources have been disabled and forced to narrow their missionary focus towards proclamation of the gospel and neglected other dimensions of mission, such as diakonia. The partial focus on the gospel in word with…
Battling with the baton
Leadership praxis, development and succession can become a bloody battlefield in Africa, mainly because of economic, cultural, theological and political factors. Just like some secular leaders who fail to serve their mandate paradoxically fight for further conquest and retention of power at all costs, certain spiritual leaders miscarry Christian leadership, struggle to deliver their missionary service and tragically battle to stay in power, inste…
Over)Staying (Dis)Gracefully
Transfers and retirement of pastors positively and negatively affect their personal, family and congregational spiritual, social and economic lives. In the Zimbabwean context of political and economic volatility, pastoral transitions have been a formidable ‘elephant’ in most classical Pentecostal denominations for a number of decades. Whenever anybody triggers its discussion, some parishioners hesitantly disengage in fear of provoking and hurting…
Weeding Syncretism from Pentecostal Wheat in Zimbabwe
The swift spread, establishment, and dynamism of Pentecostalism has in its diverse manifestations stirred a multitude of complex questions and dilemmas. While its contextualization is intertwined with syncretism, by which is meant the incorporation or attempted amalgamation of different religions with diverse schools of thought, the exceptional growth of Pentecostalism in Zimbabwe far surpasses its connection with syncretic elements. This study r…
(Mis)leading by the spirit
African spiritualities and leadership have shared a profound connection throughout history. With Africans predominantly embracing spirituality, their engagement with national political leadership takes on a spiritual dimension. However, spiritualising contests for secular power often lead to manipulation, deception and other various consequential issues. Thus, this paper investigates the impact of African spiritualities on political leadership an…
Missionizing Church Governance
Pentecostalism has experienced massive growth and evolution, both within Africa and beyond, as is evident through the emergence of dynamic neo-Pentecostal movements, including independent, prophetic, and charismatic churches. However, all its establishments have been primarily characterized by problematic governance. While neo-Pentecostal founders and leaders often asserted that they were breaking away from regressive bureaucracy and supposedly "…
Uniting Divided Religious Leaders to Democratize Zimbabwe
Following the presidential announcement of Zimbabwe's harmonized 2023 electoral date, most Christian, African Traditional, and other religious leaders commendably resumed advocating for peaceful, free, and fair elections. However, as history usually repeats itself, the tables eventually turned. Some of the leaders regressively became divided, submitted to political infiltration, aligned themselves with oppressive politicians, betrayed their fello…
Beyond tithes and offerings
The Zimbabwean economic crisis has exposed the unsustainability of traditional sources of Church finances. Churches that depend on tithes, freewill offerings and donations have been facing incapacitation, a disturbing predicament that has been further worsened by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the context of abject poverty and perennial price hikes of basic commodities. While attention has been given to the exploitative commercialisat…
The ministry of presence in absence
Since time immemorial, pastoral ministry has been physically present in church buildings, homes and public places, providing face-to-face care and reassurance of God’s love and accompaniment. The tragic outbreak and speedy spread of COVID-19 from China triggered unprecedented challenges, dramatically led to restrictive national lockdowns, closure of physical meetings, fundamentally unsettled routine ways of doing ministry and demanded total digit…
A critical assessment of Church and political engagement in Zimbabwe under the new dispensation
Since the reign of the late Robert Gabriel Mugabe, Zimbabwe has been seized by retrogressive puppetisation of partisan gospel ministers and churches, worsened by state victimisation of those who stand against political ills. Church and state relations were compromised and fear gripped most citizens. At his inauguration, the incumbent President Emmerson Mnangagwa pledged a ‘new dispensation’ but contrarily remained similar to the preceding regime.…
Sustaining pastoral work and welfare in Zimbabwe
A growing number of pastors in Zimbabwe are adversely affected by the economic crisis that has been caused by the lockdown measures imposed by the government to tackle the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Only some pastors who are financially supported by their churches and donors and others who have adopted tent-making ministry are getting through this difficult situation. There is very little study on the subject of economic sustai…
Speaking in signs
Churches in Zimbabwe have excluded deaf people, limiting their access, presence and participation in Missio Dei and Missio Ecclesiae. So far, there is minimal Zimbabwean theological scholarly attention to communicating the gospel with deaf people. Much of the available related literature focusses on education for deaf people. This article applies a critical disability theory, which is explanatory, practical, normative, and promotes equality and i…
A critical assessment of Church and political engagement in Zimbabwe under the new dispensation
Since the reign of the late Robert Gabriel Mugabe, Zimbabwe has been seized by retrogressive puppetisation of partisan gospel ministers and churches, worsened by state victimisation of those who stand against political ills. Church and state relations were compromised and fear gripped most citizens. At his inauguration, the incumbent President Emmerson Mnangagwa pledged a ‘new dispensation’ but contrarily remained similar to the preceding regime.…
Rebuilding the broken walls of Zimbabwe with the Church, leadership and followership
Biblically and historically, Christianity is meant to enlighten people, transform lives, and develop responsible and effective leaders and followers who influence life-building change across generations and borders. Somehow, even while churches mushroom everywhere, selfishness, irresponsible citizenship, moral decadence, systematic corruption, and related travails proliferate and are sinking Zimbabwe into monumental political, economic and social…
Decolonising the Church for Sustainable Development in Africa
African ecclesiology and development have been highly influenced by the way White Missionaries Christianised Africa. Since Africa regained its independence, progressive scholarly attention was given to the decolonisation discourse, but ecclesial mission continues to bear retrogressive marks of colonial missiology. As Christianity has grown massively in Africa, while declining in Europe and the West, missionary trajectories have changed and a need…
(Mis)leading by the spirit
African spiritualities and leadership have shared a profound connection throughout history. With Africans predominantly embracing spirituality, their engagement with national political leadership takes on a spiritual dimension. However, spiritualising contests for secular power often lead to manipulation, deception and other various consequential issues. Thus, this paper investigates the impact of African spiritualities on political leadership an…
Missionizing Church Governance
Pentecostalism has experienced massive growth and evolution, both within Africa and beyond, as is evident through the emergence of dynamic neo-Pentecostal movements, including independent, prophetic, and charismatic churches. However, all its establishments have been primarily characterized by problematic governance. While neo-Pentecostal founders and leaders often asserted that they were breaking away from regressive bureaucracy and supposedly "…
Uniting Divided Religious Leaders to Democratize Zimbabwe
Following the presidential announcement of Zimbabwe's harmonized 2023 electoral date, most Christian, African Traditional, and other religious leaders commendably resumed advocating for peaceful, free, and fair elections. However, as history usually repeats itself, the tables eventually turned. Some of the leaders regressively became divided, submitted to political infiltration, aligned themselves with oppressive politicians, betrayed their fello…
Speaking in signs
Churches in Zimbabwe have excluded deaf people, limiting their access, presence and participation in Missio Dei and Missio Ecclesiae. So far, there is minimal Zimbabwean theological scholarly attention to communicating the gospel with deaf people. Much of the available related literature focusses on education for deaf people. This article applies a critical disability theory, which is explanatory, practical, normative, and promotes equality and i…
Beyond tithes and offerings
The Zimbabwean economic crisis has exposed the unsustainability of traditional sources of Church finances. Churches that depend on tithes, freewill offerings and donations have been facing incapacitation, a disturbing predicament that has been further worsened by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the context of abject poverty and perennial price hikes of basic commodities. While attention has been given to the exploitative commercialisat…
The ministry of presence in absence
Since time immemorial, pastoral ministry has been physically present in church buildings, homes and public places, providing face-to-face care and reassurance of God’s love and accompaniment. The tragic outbreak and speedy spread of COVID-19 from China triggered unprecedented challenges, dramatically led to restrictive national lockdowns, closure of physical meetings, fundamentally unsettled routine ways of doing ministry and demanded total digit…
A critical assessment of Church and political engagement in Zimbabwe under the new dispensation
Since the reign of the late Robert Gabriel Mugabe, Zimbabwe has been seized by retrogressive puppetisation of partisan gospel ministers and churches, worsened by state victimisation of those who stand against political ills. Church and state relations were compromised and fear gripped most citizens. At his inauguration, the incumbent President Emmerson Mnangagwa pledged a ‘new dispensation’ but contrarily remained similar to the preceding regime.…
Sustaining pastoral work and welfare in Zimbabwe
A growing number of pastors in Zimbabwe are adversely affected by the economic crisis that has been caused by the lockdown measures imposed by the government to tackle the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Only some pastors who are financially supported by their churches and donors and others who have adopted tent-making ministry are getting through this difficult situation. There is very little study on the subject of economic sustai…
Serving the needy from the greedy
When the economy turned downwards across most African nations over the past two decades hitherto today, multifarious neo-Pentecostal churches correspondingly multiplied in and beyond the Global South. While it ordinarily appeared to be a revolutionary Africanisation of Christian revival through massive indigenous evangelisation and establishment of new denominations, countless leading prophetic apostles were selfishly enriching themselves paradox…
Rethinking the identity and economic sustainability of the Church
With burgeoning economic challenges that have been hard-pressing Zimbabwe for more than a decade, most Zimbabwean classical Pentecostal churches who do not strategically multiply their revenue in reciprocal correspondence with God-given resources have been disabled and forced to narrow their missionary focus towards proclamation of the gospel and neglected other dimensions of mission, such as diakonia. The partial focus on the gospel in word with…
Battling with the baton
Leadership praxis, development and succession can become a bloody battlefield in Africa, mainly because of economic, cultural, theological and political factors. Just like some secular leaders who fail to serve their mandate paradoxically fight for further conquest and retention of power at all costs, certain spiritual leaders miscarry Christian leadership, struggle to deliver their missionary service and tragically battle to stay in power, inste…
Over)Staying (Dis)Gracefully
Transfers and retirement of pastors positively and negatively affect their personal, family and congregational spiritual, social and economic lives. In the Zimbabwean context of political and economic volatility, pastoral transitions have been a formidable ‘elephant’ in most classical Pentecostal denominations for a number of decades. Whenever anybody triggers its discussion, some parishioners hesitantly disengage in fear of provoking and hurting…
Weeding Syncretism from Pentecostal Wheat in Zimbabwe
The swift spread, establishment, and dynamism of Pentecostalism has in its diverse manifestations stirred a multitude of complex questions and dilemmas. While its contextualization is intertwined with syncretism, by which is meant the incorporation or attempted amalgamation of different religions with diverse schools of thought, the exceptional growth of Pentecostalism in Zimbabwe far surpasses its connection with syncretic elements. This study r…
(Mis)leading by the spirit
African spiritualities and leadership have shared a profound connection throughout history. With Africans predominantly embracing spirituality, their engagement with national political leadership takes on a spiritual dimension. However, spiritualising contests for secular power often lead to manipulation, deception and other various consequential issues. Thus, this paper investigates the impact of African spiritualities on political leadership an…
Missionizing Church Governance
Pentecostalism has experienced massive growth and evolution, both within Africa and beyond, as is evident through the emergence of dynamic neo-Pentecostal movements, including independent, prophetic, and charismatic churches. However, all its establishments have been primarily characterized by problematic governance. While neo-Pentecostal founders and leaders often asserted that they were breaking away from regressive bureaucracy and supposedly "…
Uniting Divided Religious Leaders to Democratize Zimbabwe
Following the presidential announcement of Zimbabwe's harmonized 2023 electoral date, most Christian, African Traditional, and other religious leaders commendably resumed advocating for peaceful, free, and fair elections. However, as history usually repeats itself, the tables eventually turned. Some of the leaders regressively became divided, submitted to political infiltration, aligned themselves with oppressive politicians, betrayed their fello…
Decolonising the Church for Sustainable Development in Africa
African ecclesiology and development have been highly influenced by the way White Missionaries Christianised Africa. Since Africa regained its independence, progressive scholarly attention was given to the decolonisation discourse, but ecclesial mission continues to bear retrogressive marks of colonial missiology. As Christianity has grown massively in Africa, while declining in Europe and the West, missionary trajectories have changed and a need…
Rebuilding the broken walls of Zimbabwe with the Church, leadership and followership
Biblically and historically, Christianity is meant to enlighten people, transform lives, and develop responsible and effective leaders and followers who influence life-building change across generations and borders. Somehow, even while churches mushroom everywhere, selfishness, irresponsible citizenship, moral decadence, systematic corruption, and related travails proliferate and are sinking Zimbabwe into monumental political, economic and social…
From Fivefold to Five-in-One Ministry
In Southern Africa in recent years, the governance and ecclesiologies of mega-Pentecostal churches have been drifting away from upholding collective and complementary fivefold ministries to individualistic and selfish five-in-one ministries. Studies indicate that a fivefold ministry advances inclusive ecclesiological leadership, edification, and transformational integral mission. At present, mega and related forms of emerging neo-Pentecostalism h…
Doing the Word
Southern African societies are presently beleaguered by manifold socio-economic, political, and environmental challenges. Ordinary people long for answers to questions about how to mitigate these challenges. Meanwhile, the Church mostly preaches the gospel and establishes and grows denominations across the world. Proclaiming the gospel in word is good; however, without demonstrating the gospel with transformational deeds, the Church remains Salva…
Enough is not enough! Confronting church leadership’s mental health in Zimbabwe
Mental health is highly problematic in Zimbabwe because of personal, political, socio-economic and ecological crises. While church leaders predominantly face personal and leadership pressures, they are expected to enhance holistic societal well-being. As such, church leaders are under pressure to serve both the church and society from mental health issues. Sadly, the mental health of church leaders is ignored. Consequently, many clerical leaders …
(Dis)Abling church spaces
Since time immemorial, the Church has had much to say about people living with disabilities in and beyond its walls. Commendably, in Zimbabwe, the Church has established and supported schools for people with hearing, visual, physical and psychological impairments. A lot has been said and published about the Church and disabilities, especially concerning church-driven empowerment and inclusion. However, in reality, and hypocritically, infrastructu…
(Dis)regarding the contemporary Church as the peacemaker in Zimbabwe Kimion Tagwirei
It is life-bearing to sustain the condition and place of the Church as the salt, light and conscience of the Church in society. Contemporaneously, in the Zimbabwean context of tragic political and socio-economic conflict, the Church appears to be ineffective at fostering peace, healing and reconciliation, mainly because of corruption, state capture, factionalism and a passive approach to addressing national crises. However, disregarding the Churc…
Serving like Joseph can save Zimbabwe
Paradoxically, Zimbabwe is so rich in natural, material and human resources, yet it is plagued by crises due to poor leadership. Providentially, spirituality retains a strong influence in national affairs. Sadly, strategic engagement is missing. Many Christian and traditional leaders neglect active politics while a few engage, and others become national leaders without offering transformational strategies. Despite their failure, spiritual leaders…
Christian leadership by followership
African Christian leadership has been blurred by a number of unchristian traits, such as self centredness, self-glorification, lack of accountability and ineffectiveness. There is an urgent need for remnant Christian leaders to exemplify Christ-like leadership for incumbent and upcoming leaders, so that we can learn from them. While considerable scholarship has examined leadership abuses in African Pentecostalism, limited attention has, however, …
Healing together
Today, substance use disorder is a pandemic in Zimbabwe, mostly because of political and economic crises and consequential societal despair. Several clinical and sociological studies with a major focus on saving youth from the scourge have been published. However, little attention has been given to the possible contribution of spirituality to serving people of all ages. Despite the availability of voluminous clinical and sociological intervention…
Nipping Church (ab)use of AI in the bud with theological training in Zimbabwe
Although the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) in Zimbabwe has been generally slow, because of manifold factors, its use is gradually increasing in all sectors, including religion. Multiple studies have explored the problems and solutions of AI in science, education and other areas but there is a gap regarding the use and abuse of AI in churches in Zimbabwe. Because the Church ought to be the salt and light of the world (Mathew 5:13–16), i…
Political science (17 works) · Religion, Society, and Development (17 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Law (13 works) · African studies and sociopolitical issues (10 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Politics (10 works) · Christian Theology and Mission (9 works) · African cultural and philosophical studies (8 works) · Theology (8 works)