Moving on… and moving in
To Wanyama Wangah, we give a heartfelt, “Thank you.” And to Aggrey Mugisha, we offer a warm “Welcome aboard.”
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Newspaper columns
Learning trust in a suspicious world
Your mother is dead. Divorce knocks. Your son is lost. It’s cancer. You’re laid off. You’ve broken up. The car crash. You can’t stomach it all. Trust?
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Vegetable journalism is no journalism
Press accountability is terribly undeveloped in this country. This is why vegetable papers prowl and destroy journalistic ethics under the guise of journalism and with impunity.
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The joy of reading is a quest for learning
I think of what Saint Augustine said: “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
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Lots to learn about life, death, from developing world
We believe in Heaven not through religious instruction but rather because of an instinct that’s hard-wired into us, like a child in the womb who senses some grand world outside his dark closet.
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Hey little toddler – Happy Birthday!
The Standard, launched May 7, 2007, celebrates three years of publication.
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A motherhood issue: surviving birth
An open letter to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper about maternal mortality.
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Are we teaching our children a theology of suffering?
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?”
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