Only forgiveness will bring peace to Somalia
Besides ‘I am sorry,’ the hardest words in any language have to be ‘I forgive you.’ And never has the world needed them more.
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Newspaper columns
Why don’t we just wear fig leaves?
Okay, here’s a question. There are two new theology professors at UCU. Soon after one starts teaching, it’s discovered that he spends significant time mingling with Kampala’s crowd of drinkers and prostitutes. The other new professor, who is the cousin of the first, then comes to UCU’s classes wearing dreadlocks, torn jeans, several earrings and a rather large tattoo.
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Now we need to forgive each other: Yusuf
Somalia wants to move forward, but it has a horrifying past to deal with.
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Childhood as it was never meant to be
One of the unexpected things I’ve caught since coming to Africa for the long haul is a certain disturbing feeling in the pit of my stomach. It’s grown there quietly, feeding, I suspect, on the various foreign sights and sounds around here, especially those of the children.
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Christmas: the luxury to pick and choose
I received an email the other day from a Christian in Ontario upset over, in his words, “the pantywaist liberalism” of his employer.
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Africa’s good looks a thin veneer
Beautiful women and mobile phones might not be the first pictures that come to mind when you think of Africa. But one of the more interesting things about life on the so-called dark continent is that, even here, image sells.
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Doomsday diversions
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, has made “Oprah.”
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Where is African spirituality heading?
We’re driving home with African radio on, and this is what we hear. Christian tunes. Nice.
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