Reformation Sunday warns us that we fight many of the same battles today as the reformers did a half-millennium ago. For example, Thesis 86 says, “Why does the pope, whose wealth today is greater than the wealth of the richest Crassus, build the basilica of St. Peter with the money of poor believers rather than with his own money?”

In today’s Africa, this could easily say: “Why does Makandiwa, Chris Oyakhilome, Shepherd Bushiri and Alph Lukau, whose wealth today is greater than the wealth of the richest diamond mogul, buy a Bombardier 8000 private jet with the money of the poor?” There is nothing new under the sun.