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Nearing the five-year mark of my family’s foray into Uganda, here’s a mind-bender from my happy and ever-inquisitive four-year-old, Jonathan: “Daddy, when you grow up, are you going to be dead?” Of course, death can have an eerie familiarity in…Read More→
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The end is coming! Yawn. I mean, it’s taking so long. We’ve been at this delivery so many times. The Bubonic Plague, the Pope as the Anti-Christ, rare planetary alignments, Hitler, Y2K. We, the Chosen, have cried wolf so often,…Read More→
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An early-summer highlight of mine was this comment from a gentleman who stopped me in a London, Ontario church to say, “You know, your book cost me $4,000.” “Oh?” I said. “Yeah,” he continued. “I gave it to my son,…Read More→
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“You’re such a Dad-Dad.” This phrase, a recent favourite of my three-year-old Jon, has reminded me anew that there’s nothing like fatherhood. I’m not entirely sure what Jon means by “Dad-Dad.” He may be doing Uganda-speak—that dialect from our Ugandan…Read More→
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KAMPALA, UGANDA—”The time has come,” the Walrus said, “to talk of many things.” From Lewis Carroll’s nonsense verse “The Walrus and the Carpenter,” this is what comes to mind when I read the newspapers here. Is the world getting madder?…Read More→
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So it’s that time of year when all of our New Year resolutions aren’t yet broken. Among mine is to get into jail more often. Not literal prison with iron and cement and those naked toilets—although a bare cell can…Read More→
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Her name is Fatmata. She is an African mother. And this is her story. Fatmata grew up with 25 relatives in a cluster of small shacks. She is the fourth of 16 children of her father’s, a polygamist with three…Read More→
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What is the gospel? No, really. I’m not being facetious. What is the gospel? I ask because summer reading during my recent tenure in Canada was different than usual. Sitting on the side of my bed late one warm night,…Read More→
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Adultery is something I’ve never really thought about much. But the papers here in Uganda are full of it: adultery is no longer a crime. The dusty law which, upon conviction, carried a fine of 1,200 Ugandan shillings, or the…Read More→
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Evil is never easy to look in the eye. So it’s no surprise The Last King of Scotland is getting mixed reactions in this corner of the world, where the story – both its real and Hollywood version – unfolds….Read More→