Writing

Ola, Joseph. “‘No Turning Back’: AfroGospel, Discipleship, and Gen Z Pentecostalism in Nigeria.” Missio Africanus: The Journal of African Missiology 8, no. 1 (2025). Article Link.

Ola, Joseph. “‘No Turning Back’: How AfroGospel Is Stirring a Generation.” Moya Chronicles (2025).

Ola, Joseph. “WAFBEC/WOFBEC: An African Christianity Hub You May Not Know About.” Moya Chronicles 4, no. 3 (2023). Article Link.

Ola, Joseph. “Jesus as Proto-Ancestor.” Missio Africanus: The Journal of African Missiology 7, no. 1 (2022). Article Link.

Ola, Joseph. “A Cow That Has No Tail: A Theological Reflection on African Christianity.” Moya Chronicles 3, no. 10 (2022). Article Link.

Ola, Joseph. Review of Global Migration & Christian Faith: Implications for Identity and Mission, edited by M. Daniel Carroll R. and Vincent E. Bacote. Anvil: Journal of Theology and Mission 38, no. 2 (2022). Article Link.

Kwiyani, Harvey, and Joseph Ola. “God in Oral African Theology: Exploring the Spoken Theologies of Afua Kuma and Tope Alabi.” Conspectus 31 (2021). Article Link.

Ola, Joseph. “African Millennial Christians in the Diaspora and the Identity Question.” Anvil: Journal of Theology and Mission 37, no. 3 (2021). Article Link.

Ola, Joseph. “Logos Christology in an African Context: ‘In the Beginning Was Ọ̀rọ̀.’” Academia Letters, article 2025 (2021). Article Link.

Ola, Joseph. “Challenges of Social Media and the Internet to the Christian Youth.” Moya Chronicles 2, no. 5 (2021). Article Link.

Ola, Joseph. “The Foundation for a Lasting Marriage.” Moya Chronicles 2, no. 9 (2021). Article Link.

Ola, Joseph. “The Gift of St Anthony of Egypt to African Christianity Today.” Moya Chronicles 2, no. 15 (2021). Article Link.

Ola, Joseph. “Identity and Heritage Among African Youth.” Moya Chronicles 1, no. 2 (2020). Article Link.

Ola, Joseph. “African Pioneered Churches in the West: Limitations and Possibilities.” Missio Africanus: The Journal of African Missiology 4, no. 1 (2019). Article Link.

Ola, Joseph. “Reclaiming Roots, Reframing Mission: Identity, Innovation, and the Diasporic Witness of Transnational African Millennial Christianity.” In Overcoming Xenophobia and Exclusion? African Christianities in Diaspora, edited by Ignatius Swart, Henrietta Nyamnjoh, and Elina Hankela. Forthcoming. Stellenbosch: African Sun Media, Sun Press imprint, 2026.

Ola, Joseph. “Hilary Teague.” In Black Missionary Legends, vol. 1, edited by Linda P. Saunders. Forthcoming. Pasadena, CA: William Carey Publishing, 2026.

Ola, Joseph. “Colin Teague.” In Black Missionary Legends, vol. 1, edited by Linda P. Saunders. Forthcoming. Pasadena, CA: William Carey Publishing, 2026.

Ola, Joseph. “A Missiology for a Youthful Continent.” In Africa Bears Witness: Mission Theology and Praxis in the 21st Century, edited by Harvey Kwiyani. Carlisle: Langham Publishing, 2024.

Ola, Joseph. African, Millennial, and Christian: Exploring the Question of Identity among Young Nigerian Christians in the 21st Century. MA thesis, Liverpool Hope University, 2021. Thesis Link.

Ola, Joseph. Reverse Mission: Recognising Limiting Factors and Identifying Creative Possibilities. MA thesis, Liverpool Hope University, 2017. Thesis Link.

Ola, Joseph. "Beyond Fervency: Navigating Authenticity and Legacy in African (Congregational) Prayer." Unpublished manuscript, 2024.

Ola, Joseph. "Book Review of Ethnographic Theology: An Inquiry into the Production of Theological Knowledge by Natalie Wigg-Stevenson." Unpublished manuscript, 2023.

Ola, Joseph. "Reflexivity in Practical Theology: A Case Study." Unpublished manuscript, 2023.

Ola, Joseph. "A Cow That Has no Tail: A Theological Reflection on African Christianity." Unpublished manuscript, 2023.

Ola, Joseph. “Tithing and the Faith Movement: A Fresh Look at Malachi 3:6–12.” Unpublished manuscript, 2019. Article Link.

Ola, Joseph. “The Impact of Christianity in Sub-Saharan Africa: Separating the Fallacy from the Facts.” Unpublished manuscript, 2019. Article Link.

Ola, Joseph. “‘Strangers’ Meat Is the Greatest Treat’: African Christianity in Europe.” Unpublished manuscript, 2020. Article Link.

Ola, Joseph. “Eschatology of Matthew: The Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins in Perspective.” Unpublished manuscript, 2017. Article Link.

Ola, Joseph. “Theological Criticism.” Unpublished manuscript, 2017. Article Link.

Ola, Joseph. “Pauline Eschatology.” Unpublished manuscript, 2017. Article Link.

Ola, Joseph. “Women in First-Century Judaism and Anti-Jewish Tendencies in the Interpretation of the Role of Women in the Early Christian Movement.” Unpublished manuscript, 2017. Article Link.

Ola, Joseph. “St Anthony of Egypt: His Relevance to African Christianity Today.” Unpublished manuscript, 2019. Article Link.