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Do You Still Need Church to Go to Church?
Church once arrived as one familiar order of service. Prayer, worship and preaching now travel separately, online and on demand.
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Did We Lose Love at Home?
If love has gone missing from society, the first place to look is the family, where every generation learns how to treat the next person.
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Through the Windscreen: The Story Behind Night Runs
A tired Ford Edge, 5:15 rides through Lagos and conversations with night-shift drivers gave birth to Adio and Night Runs.
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The Story Behind Death Wears Scrubs
Hospital corridors, family surgery and long nights of watching became the foundation for Akin Akingbogun’s first full-length medical thriller.
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The Journey Is the Life, Part Two: Unbuckle Yourself
Uncertainty, old wounds and familiar restraints can keep us seated. Life asks us to put down needless weight and step into the road ahead.
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The Journey Is the Life, Part One: The Road Before Arrival
We spend years preparing to live, chasing destinations that may never matter as much as the road, choices and companions that shape us.
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The Gaze Question: How Much Eye Contact Is Enough?
How much eye contact is enough? A practical look at the psychology, cultural meaning and everyday rhythm of eye contact.
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Everyday Why? The Strange Business of Being Human
A new reader-powered series about the strange, funny and contradictory things we do in ordinary life, and the questions hiding inside them.
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Which Came First? The Egg or the Chicken
An age-old riddle, a viral reel, and what the science actually says. Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution. Theodosius Dobzhansky The question that refuses to die Some questions are…
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Top and Popular Stories of 2025 — Annual Review
“Looking back at twelve months of ink, suspense, reflection, and the stories that anchored our year.” Time flies indeed. When we closed the books on calendar year 2025, the analytics revealed a fascinating mosaic…
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Top 10 Most Read Stories of 2026 So Far
“It is almost seven years since I published the first story on this blog. I still get a special feeling each time the numbers show that an old story has found a new reader.”…
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The Voynich Manuscript: A Book No One Can Read
The Unexplained Files, Post 03 Six hundred years old. More than a century of modern decoding attempts. Generations of cryptographers, linguists, medievalists and, lately, computers trained to notice patterns that human eyes miss. Still,…