There’s a larger lesson to learn from Kony 2012
Information can misinform and divide our world as much as it can inform and bring it together.
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Newspaper columns
Konymania: this is not Uganda’s reality
LONDON — The world is getting faster. And stranger. Have you noticed?
This is what I know. I think. I mean, sometimes it’s hard to know what we know. Take Joseph Kony. He’s someone who, thanks to social media, you likely know.
I’m betting you know Kony is that Ugandan warlord with a strangely genteel face, that he’s abducted thousands of Ugandan boys and stole their souls when he made them into so-called soldiers.
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Judgment is good – indeed, is needed
Cultural relativism can blind us to warped thinking and behaviour.
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Talking to the neighbours… and enjoying it
Muslims and Christians are, in fact, more similar than we often imagine.
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And lo! A child is saved from a brutal death
(Hamilton Spectator – Saturday, December 24, 2011)
KAMPALA, UGANDA — It’s late at night at the Ugandan-Kenyan border and a little Ugandan boy is about to disappear forever.
Moses Kaloulou, all of seven years old, is crying hysterically. Not that he knows what’s going to happen, that he’ll likely soon die at the hands, and knife blade, of a witch doctor. All he knows is that it’s late — about midnight now — and very dark, and that some hours ago he was taken by strange men.
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Africa should be a safe haven for children
So it is Christmas, a good time to give thanks for the past year, especially for our children.
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Power of prayer challenges the impossible
(Christian Week – December 2011)
KAMPALA, UGANDA ✦ Remember Kienan Hebert, the three-year-old in one of Canada’s biggest feel-good stories of 2011? Kienan was abducted from his B.C. home and later returned by, of all people, his abductor.
Twitter and Facebook lit up. Christians proclaimed God is alive and well and listening to prayer.
One wrote the Toronto Star online: “To those who aren’t aware that God answers prayer, I show you the return of Kienan Hebert. Now if we prayed on an ongoing basis for the protection of children and for those disturbed in mind and spirit, abductions like this would rarely occur.”
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Amidst incompetence, we all suffer
If you drive away one good student or one good faculty or one good missionary today, how many will come tomorrow?
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