Christianity

Where are the honest politicians?

Leave a Comment / Newspaper columns, The Standard / / , , , , / 3 minutes of reading

(The UCU Standard – Monday, February 15, 2016)

MUKONO, UGANDA ✦ Yoweri Museveni. Donald Trump. Jesus Christ. Who would you vote for? (Okay, if you find it too hard to imagine voting for Jesus per se, how about someone with Christ-like qualities?)

I mean, you can’t help but wonder what would happen if someone running for the presidency were to get up in front of microphones and cameras and scribblers and say something like this:

“If anyone running for this office doesn’t do so with the greatest fear and trepidation, shaking and trembling from the moment he leaves bed in the morning, then he’s a hopeless fool.

Where are the honest politicians? Read More »

The Pope is cool. He’s like a grandpa. Long live the Pope.

Leave a Comment / Daily Dad / / , , , , , , , / 4 minutes of reading

Hannah says “The Pope is cool” and Liz says “He’s like a grandpa.” Which means that he would have to be a Dad. Which means (let’s just pretend) that he would have to be married. Which leads me to a recent excerpt on said Pope, this excerpt from a recent column: In truth, I can easily picture

The Pope is cool. He’s like a grandpa. Long live the Pope. Read More »

The spirited ways of Pope Francis

1 Comment / Hamilton Spectator, Newspaper columns / / , , , , , , / 4 minutes of reading

(The Hamilton Spectator – Saturday, December 5, 2015)

KAMPALA, UGANDA ✦ I am not Catholic.

And, like you, I have my images of fatherhood.

The better ones have more to do with the holiness of, say, my boy with a ball and a catching glove on our sun-filled front lawn than with the Holy Father coming to visit.

The spirited ways of Pope Francis Read More »

A hope in hell

Leave a Comment / Christian Courier, Newspaper columns / / , , , , , , / 3 minutes of reading

(Christian Courier, October 12, 2015)

MUKONO, UGANDA ✦ They’re out there, people who’d say that they don’t believe in hell any more than they believe in heaven, but you can never be sure what anyone really thinks about these sorts of questions because you can hardly expect anyone to be honest with you when they don’t know how to be honest with themselves.

Your neighbour might say that it’s nothing but malarkey – heaven, hell, God, the devil, the entire lot of it (this is the 21st century, after all) – but he’d tell you that he doesn’t believe in gravity, yet his disbelief doesn’t run so deep that he’d actually step off a tall building.

A hope in hell Read More »

Mysterious and foolish things

Leave a Comment / Newspaper columns, The Standard / / , , , , , , / 3 minutes of reading

(The UCU Standard – March 19 – April 5, 2015)

MUKONO, UGANDA ✦ As a boy I hoped for, and believed in, small and foolish things that at the time seemed big and sensible enough. Now I hope for things that are big and sensible enough to my children, even if I think they’re small and foolish to me.

Mysterious and foolish things Read More »

The Nature of Peace – Complete address

Leave a Comment / Other / / , , , , , , , , , , , , / 19 minutes of reading

  In November 2014 I returned from my African home to speak at the Hamilton Convention Centre on the theme of The Nature of Peace. This was on the invitation of the YMCA of Hamilton-Burlington-Brantford, which holds an annual Peace Medal Breakfast to honour the people of Hamilton region who work towards peace. Following is

The Nature of Peace – Complete address Read More »

Scroll to Top