OK, so what if Chicken Little was right? Chicken Little is that bird who got hit on the head by a falling acorn and then ran around screaming “The sky is falling!” He got all his forest friends in an alarmist tizzy and, on their way to tell the king, they were summarily fooled and eaten by that Foxy Loxy.
At some point, there’ll be a new Earth Read More »
While here in the heart of Africa, I think of Canada often. Fall is no exception.
‘He shoots! He scores!’ – Uganda-style Read More »
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.”
God and I have some similar values Read More »
It’s hard to know most days what might go through the mind of any three-year-old, let alone an orphan from Africa.
Orphans want to be loved, wherever they are Read More »
If I have one urgent piece of practical advice for young men today, it’s this: Look forward with great hope to the day you marry and have children.
For dads and dad-dads everywhere Read More »
“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.
A culture of fatherhood Read More »
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?
Ritual murder on the rise in Uganda Read More »
Is it the global credit crisis? Is it the evil that lurks? Or is the world just getting madder? Whatever the cause, there’s a spike in ritual murders in this impoverished African country.
Witch doctors, spirits and killings Read More »
