Christian Week

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.

Her name is Fatmata. She is an African mother. And this is her story.

I discovered that this hugely popular novel, with sales now somewhere around a million, has caused a tempest in our community. And it's left me wondering: is it just me, or is something fundamentally and horribly amiss in our courtyard?

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.

Evil is never easy to look in the eye. So it's no surprise that 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.

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.

I received an email the other day from a Christian in Ontario upset over, in his words, "the pantywaist liberalism" of his employer.

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."

We're driving home with African radio on, and this is what we hear. Christian tunes. Nice.

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.

Getting up in the morning and putting on the sandals of everyday life is not unlike what Jesus did.

SANA'A, YEMEN ✦ Dohhh! Just when the Yankee cat turns its back to focus on Iraq, the Yemeni mice go out to play. A gang of al-Qaeda-type jailbirds, including two held as key suspects in the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole, have apparently vanished from a jail in Aden for good. Six weeks ago, they escaped in a style that outdid even the Great Escape from Alcatraz.