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There is a door Kenyans keep knocking on, and it is the wrong one. When citizens need someone to hear their grievance and say it aloud to power, they call the opposition. When they need someone to hear it and simply hold it quietly, they call the Church. Hearing is not the same as speaking. A people who cannot tell the difference will keep mistaking sympathy for prophecy.
This is not politics failing us. It is the Church resigning without submitting a letter.
Nobody fired the pastor from the prophetic office. They simply stopped showing up to it, and called the empty chair humility. An empty chair kept long enough starts to look like a vacancy notice, and someone else will eventually read it that way and take the seat.
There are two ways to vacate a post, and the Church has mastered both. The first is comfort — chaplaincy dressed as ministry, blessing ribbons instead of examining them, mistaking a seat at the high table for a mandate to speak there. The second is subtler and more common now: reaction dressed as courage. A strong statement issued after the scandal breaks feels prophetic. It is not. It is commentary on someone else's script, arriving safely after the danger has passed. Punctual is not the same as prophetic.
