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KAMPALA, UGANDA – Good grief. Just when you thought you knew the rules around here, where it’s a given that cultural change is painfully slow, along comes a curve ball that really makes your head spin. The latest loopy news…Read More→
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I received an email the other day from a Christian in Ontario upset over, in his words, “the pantywaist liberalism” of his employer. He had offered to say the dinner blessing at his company’s upcoming “Seasonal Party,” but his employer…Read More→
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After 20 years of terrorizing northern Ugandans, Joseph Kony and his hoods in the Lord’s Resistance Army have made it to the big time. Their story, and that of the thousands of children they’ve killed or made into child soldiers,…Read More→
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We’re driving home with African radio on, and this is what we hear. Christian tunes. Nice. Unlike in Canada, contemporary Christian music is mainstream here in Uganda. Yes, this is the so-called Global South, the part of the planet that,…Read More→
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My first image of God hung in my bedroom and watched over my childhood. You’ve probably seen the painting, known as Head of Christ, countless times yourself. There’s our Lord with his long, sandy hair, trimmed beard and piercing blue…Read More→
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I was recently sitting under a large mango tree here in the heart of Africa, as good a place as any, apparently, for Providence to put an arm around a needy shoulder. It was Ash Wednesday. And a rather rotten…Read More→