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Eric Tangumonkem, Ph.D.

Jul 22, 2021
2 min

Making the most with what you have

Your gift will make a way for you no matter what your circumstances are or what other people think about you or do to you. Therefore, it is more important to find out what your gift is and start using it, instead of complaining about your circumstances. Joseph had the gift of interpreting dreams, and he used it while in prison. Remember that he was falsely accused, wrongfully convicted, and imprisoned. He could have allowed anger and bitterness to prevent him from making use

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Eric Tangumonkem, Ph.D.

Jul 21, 2021
2 min

Living above your circumstances

Joseph was enslaved, but his spirit was free because he refused to obey the dictates of the wife of his owner. Although one would have expected Joseph to comply because he was owned and had no right to say no, he understood who the true master was. The person calling the shots was God, that is why it is recorded that God was within both in Potiphar's house and in prison. Even in prison, Joseph did not allow himself to be depressed; he still excelled because God was with him.

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Eric Tangumonkem, Ph.D.

Jul 20, 2021
4 min

Understanding the bigger picture

The first lesson we can learn from the life of Josep is the fear of God. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom and to fear good is to hate evil. Without a healthy fear of God, it is impossible to defeat evil. Joseph feared God and this empowered him to resist the temptation to commit adultery. The second lesson is forgiveness. Joseph's brothers committed a despicable act against him, yet he forgave them. Joseph forgave not because he was not hurting, it was because

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Eric Tangumonkem, Ph.D.

Jul 19, 2021
4 min

Forgiveness

I already mentioned that all have sinned and need forgiveness. Joseph understood this, and it helped him to see beyond his brother’s egregious offense. What this brother did was despicable, but it was not beyond forgiveness. Consider what Jesus Christ taught us about forgiving one another. His disciples had come to him, asking him to teach them how to pray. Jesus taught them what we now call the Lord’s Prayer, and part of it is the request for God to forgive us. Then Jesus ad

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Eric Tangumonkem, Ph.D.

Jul 16, 2021
5 min

Joseph Feared God: Twenty reasons he could have given if he committed adultery

We all know this part of Joseph’s story, recorded in the following passage: It came about after these events that his master's wife looked with desire at Joseph, and she said, "Lie with me." But he refused and said to his master's wife, "Behold, with me here, my master does not concern himself with anything in the house, and he has put all that he owns in my charge. "There is no one greater in this house than I, and he has withheld nothing from me except you because you are h

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Eric Tangumonkem, Ph.D.

Jul 15, 2021
5 min

The case of Joseph and his brothers and racism

Then, the unthinkable happened. Joseph’s brothers showed up hungry and desperate for food. There was a famine in the land, and they needed it for their families, and Joesph was in charge of selling food. Was this the right time to punish his brothers for all they had done to him? Was it payback time? Before Joseph made himself known to his brothers, he invited them to his house to have a meal with him. Remember, it was mentioned that the Egyptians discriminated against the He

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Eric Tangumonkem, Ph.D.

Jul 15, 2021
5 min

The case of Joseph and Racism

What happened to Joseph, the 11th son of Jacob was despicable, unacceptable, and troubling because it was conceived and executed by his own brothers. If some stranger had done it, one would have had some understanding. For brothers to rise up against their brother and sell him to a foreign country as a slave because they were jealous of him is a prime indication of what issues of the heart can do. Joseph was known for all the wonderful dreams that predicted that he was going

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Eric Tangumonkem, Ph.D.

Jul 13, 2021
3 min

Lessons from the Past

"We cannot change the past, only recover from it. And perhaps learn its cruel lessons." Dan Pena You may be thinking that I am giving a pass to all the perpetrators of racism and those that have seized native lands, exploited, enslaved, and pillaged other cultures. Those advocating for social justice and calling for reparations for past crimes are not looking at the complete picture because they are making sweeping generalizations about the past that are not so. I strongly co

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Eric Tangumonkem, Ph.D.

Jul 13, 2021
8 min

The most segregated hour in the US

It is Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. who said, “Sunday morning at 9:00 am is the most segregated hour in the United States of America.” Today you can still hear people throwing this around as proof that racism is in the DNA of the United States of America and that white privilege is true and will never go away. This sentiment does not capture the whole issue. I will start by saying that racism and Christianity are not supposed to appear in the same sentence because you cannot be

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Eric Tangumonkem, Ph.D.

Jul 10, 2021
5 min

Ethnocentrism is alive and well

We discarded the word tribalism for obvious reasons because it is loaded with a lot of baggage that is not helping our efforts to go past mislabeling and mischaracterization of other people. For example, when the Europeans encountered cultures that did not wear clothes, they considered them primitive and backward. I am not saying that nudity should be encouraged, but in these societies where nudity was the norm, you could not sell pornography and nudity because the supply was

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Eric Tangumonkem, Ph.D.

Jul 9, 2021
5 min

I was told not to marry a foreign woman

You will have to read this portion carefully and between the lines to understand what I am trying to say. Make sure that you do not draw any rash conclusions and misunderstand what I am about to say. I do not like the blame game because it gives too much power to other people and circumstances that are surrounding you. The result is that you become helpless and trapped in your circumstances because you have relinquished control and power to outside forces. I love my parents d

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Eric Tangumonkem, Ph.D.

Jul 8, 2021
2 min

Telling It Like It Is; Racism is Universal

Racism comes in many different forms. Sometimes it's subtle, and sometimes it's overt. Sometimes it's violent, and sometimes it's harmless, but it's definitely here. It's something that I think we're all guilty of, and we just have to make sure that we deal with our own personal racism in the right way. Jordan Peele The assumption in society today, especially in societies where the black race and white races interact, is that racism is prevalent. When people operate under thi

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Eric Tangumonkem, Ph.D.

Jul 7, 2021
11 min

The driver of superiority and inferiority complex

It is important for us to understand that the phenomena of superiority and inferiority complex have existed in all human societies through the ages. Today, no matter where you go, you will find that society is broadly divided into two main groups: those that think they are superior to others and those who have been relegated, forced, or brainwashed to believe that they are inferior. We may be splitting hairs to get to the intricacies of these phenomena, but each society has d

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Eric Tangumonkem, Ph.D.

Jul 6, 2021
6 min

Hurting people hurt others

The human race is hurting because of the disobedience of Adam and Eve. The original harmony that was disrupted in the beginning has been replaced by death, sickness, and decay. We all know that racism is bad because of the negative impact it has on other people. But the question is, why do people hate, discriminate, and treat other people wrong? Why does somebody need to feel that they are superior to others? In short, why can’t all of us just get along? How can another human

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Eric Tangumonkem, Ph.D.

Jul 5, 2021
6 min

People are not naturally good

Here, I refer to all people on the planet, regardless of where they are, who they are, and their socio-economic status. You may be shocked to hear that no one is good. We may pretend that we are good because the wickedness in our hearts has not been made manifest, but under the right circumstances, our true nature will come out and most of the time, it is not something that we are proud of. Just because you do things and you get away with not being caught does not mean that w

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Eric Tangumonkem, Ph.D.

Jul 2, 2021
3 min

Racism is an issue of the heart

Whatever causes people to hate, discriminate, and at times, murder others is an issue of the heart. We have already mentioned that the heart of man is desperately wicked. Out of a wicked heart flows all sorts of evil things. that the heart is where we need to focus our efforts when trying to address the issue of racism. A desperately wicked human heart needs deliverance. There is no way the amount of melanin in somebody’s skin will justify enslaving, mistreating, or taking ad

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Eric Tangumonkem, Ph.D.

Jul 2, 2021
0 min

How to Develop Self-Control

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Eric Tangumonkem, Ph.D.

Jul 2, 2021
4 min

The Beginning of Racism

Parents and schools should place great emphasis on the idea that it is all right to be different. Racism and all the other 'isms' grow from primitive tribalism, the instinctive hostility against those of another tribe, race, religion, nationality, class or whatever. You are a lucky child if your parents taught you to accept diversity. Roger Ebert It has often been said that if we fail to understand history, we are doomed to repeat it. Nothing is truer to this than in the are

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Eric Tangumonkem, Ph.D.

Jul 2, 2021
5 min

The Complex Interplay of Superiority and Inferiority complex and Racism

There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad. 'Good pride' represents our dignity and self-respect. 'Bad pride' is the deadly sin of superiority that reeks of conceit and arrogance. John C. Maxwell As I already stated, racism is not just a white and black issue because, in every society on the face of the earth, there are two major groups of people: those who feel they are superior and those who have been forcefully made to feel that they are inferior. This superiority is

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Eric Tangumonkem, Ph.D.

Jul 1, 2021
7 min

The limitation of color

Why do we need color to classify humans and divide them into different races? Each time I tell my students that the Mundani language, which I spoke as a child has only three colors, they are shocked. They should be because if you are used to the colors of the rainbow, it will not make sense for you to hear that there are people who see only three colors. I usually ask my students to identify these colors. Most of the students will mention black and white, but the third color

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