Faith Without Frontiers explores grief, apologetics and reaching Africa's next generation with Andy Mburu

In today's episode of Faith Without Frontiers, host Gordon Showell-Rogers travels to Nairobi, Kenya, to speak with Andy Mburu, founder of Litmus Africa, about one of the greatest challenges facing the African church: reaching a generation that is asking difficult questions about faith, identity and truth.

With Africa home to the world's youngest population, Mburu explains why many churches struggle to connect with Generation Z, whose worldview is shaped by social media and unlimited access to information. In many African shame-honor cultures, he says, questioning authority can be perceived as rebellion, leaving issues such as sexuality, gender identity and whether Christianity is truly "good news" for Africans largely unaddressed in church.

Through Litmus Africa, Mburu is seeking to change that. The ministry creates spaces where young people are encouraged to ask honest questions, think critically and explore the Christian faith through apologetics. At the heart of its work is the conviction that truth is ultimately not an idea but a person—Jesus Christ.

During the conversation, Mburu shares how his own journey into apologetics began after the death of his first wife, Priscilla, in a traffic accident just three months after they were married. Wrestling with grief, suffering and difficult questions about God ultimately strengthened rather than weakened his faith and shaped the vision for the ministry he now leads.

Showell-Rogers also speaks with Mburu about his training at the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics, the lessons he learned from the Ravi Zacharias scandal, and why integrity must accompany any defense of the Christian faith.

Looking to the future, Mburu shares his hope that Africa's rapidly growing church will raise up a new generation of missionaries. Rather than seeing the thousands of Kenyan students who leave each year to study overseas as a "brain drain," he views them as potential "undercover missionaries" who can bring the gospel to increasingly secular societies around the world.

The episode offers a thoughtful and deeply personal conversation about grief, discipleship, apologetics and the importance of creating churches where honest questions are welcomed and young people are equipped to follow Christ with both heart and mind.

Listen to today's episode of Faith Without Frontiers to hear the full conversation.