Professor sharp pen stabs Anglican bishop, Malawians call for restraint
Malawians are calling for a ceasefire in the Anglican church of Upper Shire after a leaked letter from a University professor shows crude, unholy language against bishop Brighton Malasa.
University of Malawi’s professor Paul Kishindo describes the bishop as a juvenile delinquent.
This was after Malasa had ex-communicated Kishindo and 20 others over church politics, a decision the bishop rescinded later.
“As a matter of principle, I refrain from engaging in arguments with intellectual midgets; but your most recent pranks in which you purport to have excommunicated me and more than twenty others from the Anglican church is so blatantly stupid that it cannot go without comment,” says Kishindo in his opening letter to Bishop Malasa.
Malasa has been fighting with some rebels within the church who do not recognize his authority, accuse him of abuse of office and church money, allegations Malasa denies.
“In that stupid act, you arrogate to yourself powers that you do not have. I am not sure if you sought the advice of the Chancellor; but on past second it is likely that you did not seek his advice, otherwise he would not have allowed this public stupidity to happen,” says Kishindo in his letter in reference to his excommunication from the church.
Adds Kishindo in the letter: “I believe the Chancellor has a professional reputation which your impulsive actions, fueled by alcohol, are tarnishing by association.
“It never ceases to amaze me how an intellectual efulefu like you assumes a ‘know it all’ attitude…”
Kishindo describes Malasa as a damn fool, saying he believed the excommunication order, ‘probably written in drunken stupor” would be obeyed.
Kishindo accuses Malasa of ‘buying’ a doctor of divinity degree from a conman to boost his social status, whilst him has a chain of degrees from real universities and a professorship to match.
“If there is one person that should be expelled from the church it is you. You have brought the Anglican church into disrepute.
“Your everyday life is a complete negation of all that the Lord Jesus Christ represented during his sojourn on earth. Your name has become synonymous with immorality and wickedness,” says the letter.
There was no immediate comment from Malasa but his office said the bishop had received the letter.
Last week, scores of church faithful held a vigil at his residence at Chilema in Zomba to force him out of office.
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inuuu nkhanizi ndi zovuta zofunika Mulungu alowererepo.Bishop Brighton plese sink so low for once just to accommodate your flock kuti nkhanizi zithe.Much as I also sympathise ndi akhristu omwe achotsedwa inunso Akhristu don’t wash your dirty linen in public a the great Angels animba kale kuti alipo apa yemmwe sanachimwepo atole mwala onse palibe yemwe angenda mwala kusoyenza kuti aliyense amakhala ndi zofooka.Chonde touch not your Annointed nonse ndi amodzi mwa Khristu Yesu.Bishop Brighton nkhani ya Brenda konzani sikumamvekanso bwino inu okhala mtumiki wamkulu mu mpimgo wanu.Nanga mai kunyumba akamva zosakhala bwinotu. Chonde Bishop Brighton musakhale ndi mbiri yosakhala bwino ngati mbale wanu Petulo inu khalani ngati Mulungu Alinafeyu mtumiki weniweni.Chabwino naye Mulungu Alinafeyu mwina ali ndi zofooka koma amatumikira bwino anthu amanena zabwino za iye.Bishop Brighton khalani ngati Mulungu ali Nafeyu.Zikuonelka kuti mbali ina muli ndi chikoka komanso maluso ambiri oti mpingo wanu ukhoza kupita patali.Ndamva kuti mwatenga Tchutchi pezani anzanu a mipingo ina ndi mikoko ina yogon ya mu mpingo mwanu kuti akuthandizeni.Pnokha simukwanitsa loalni Yesu akhale nkhoswe yanu.
Mwamuyamba zazikulu Kishindo, mpaka kumuchotsa mumpingo hahaha… These issues could not have reached this far! kodi ku Anglican kulibe ma tranfers? I know one of the reasons for this is that ma Bishop ena akumadandaula kuti ankolo Malasa akudya okha zambiri but as a church, ilibe other Bishops oti can replace Malasa and send him kwina akapitilize ntchito ya Ambuye?
I am an Anglican but I always feel not comfortable with some Anglicans who think they are more Anglican than the other especially people from that side of the Lake. Kishindo is one of them. Seriously speaking, his writings to men of God is always wanting. Shame on this stupid professor. I hate him because of his attitude towards others.
Respect is a state of mind, an attitude and not a reaction…..both men to sit down and resolve this in a dignified manner
This problem of the Anglican church is now getting worse and out of control.Please resolve the issue otherwise it is turnishing the good name of the Anglican church I know.Lord have mercy and guide the church to peace
TOUCH NOT MY ANNOINTED!!!! IN HIS STUPIDITY, SAMSON LOST SIGHT, BUT ALAS, STILL, THE GLORY OF GOD WAS UPON HIM. AND THE LORD RESTORED HIS STRENGTH AGAIN. BEHOLD THE ENTIRE GENERATION TOGETHER WITH THOSE THAT HAD FULL SIGHT, THOSE THAT THOUGHT THEY WERE WISE IN THEIR OWN IMAGINATION PERISHED TOGETHER WITH HIM!!!!
A minibus call boy would do better than this
Kishindo is damn right! This so-called bishop is a disgrace. Only brutal language like Kishindo’s can get through his thick skull. Everything else has failed.
This is crude language coming from a “professor”?
However may be this is the language we should be using for arrogant and insensitive people like Malasa, mutharika and Ansa
Kodi paja ku ma church kumakhala kunyambita ndalama za akhristu eeeh! Ndiye muziti ndi m’boma mokha mukubedwa ndalama ai ndithu nanga the whole professor akuumirira mpando ku mpingo.
Mpaka kugula doctorate degree! Koma Malasa!
mpaka kugula doctorate degree!!! Zoopsa Mr Bishop
School sichotsadi uchitsiru, this so called natty professor Kishindo is a disgrace to intellectuals and he is the one who is too stupid to call his own bishop an efulefu and wash his linen in public.As a learned fellow as you claim to be,you must be aware that there is more civil ways of adressing your grievances with your bishop other than stooping so low to disgrace yourself and the man of God in public.The bishop might be wrong as we are told in your ranting but surely there are more than 100 legal channels that you and the laity can follow to remove the bishop.Kishindo, I dont know you but from what you have written I can openly say that you are not worth my respect and that of every good reasoning christian, get a life.
Am not Anglican but I subscribe to the church teaching. I strongly feel the Bishop could have been exampelary himself. I feel Kishindo was pushed t the wall and had no choice but to use the laguage the arrogants understands better. If I were the Bishop I would have given way to allow new ideas and spirit to preavail
Sometimes you need people like Kishindo to bring sanity to these people who hide behind the robes while doing the most unholy of acts. Unfortunately most Malawians are so afraid to call a spade by its real name when it comes to the misconduct of these church leaders.
Atumiki anali kale masiku ano people they just take it as a job not a calling as it used to be.
Righteous anger!
The professor may feel justified, but he could have also used his higher moral ground to demonstrate the love that our Lord taught us.
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Marks of a savage. Sukulu simachotsa uchitsiru obadwa nao
Polani moto, zamkachisi izi
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this kishindo is a stupid person
Cry my beloved Anglican Church!
They just have to rejoin the catholic church these people. Anglicanism in Malawi is on a downward spiral and with the leadership of people like Malasa, the ship is really sinking and fast!