Femi Aribisala did not want to be a prophet. When the Lord posed that very question to him early in his faith journey, he stayed silent. The calling held no appeal, no shine, no sense of glory worth reaching for.
That quiet refusal sits at the heart of his latest "Article of Faith" column, published in Premium Times Nigeria. Writing against the backdrop of earthquakes and tsunami floods, Aribisala opens a conversation about the figures who rise from disaster, the ones who show up with a word and a microphone whenever catastrophe strikes.
His essay raises the kind of question that lingers: if the prophetic voice is so easily summoned by tragedy, what does it actually cost the person carrying it?
Originally published by Premium Times.