CHURCH AND MARRIAGE IN EAST AFRICA (HENRY OKULLU)

In this provocative book, Bishop Okullu challenges the Church to look realistically at marriage in all its many aspects and problems. He is well qualified to make such a challenge since he is both a servant of the Church and a married man. His own work deals every day with the Church and often with pastoral matters pertaining to marriage.

In East Africa, as in other parts of the world, there are family issues which call for the constant attention of the institutional Church. This book isolates and opens up a discussion on some of them, including such controversial items like Church and sex, abortion, contraceptives, divorce, polygamy and generation tensions. The bishop does not impose his views: rather, he provokes reflection, and challenges both the Church and readers to look at the issues in the light of the Church's teachings and the practical realities of life. He gives a lead towards the direction which the discussion on these issues might take.