Froese biography Archives – Page 4 of 9

Celebrating Family Day (and all the things that means)

Leave a Comment / Hamilton Spectator, Newspaper columns / February 13, 2016 / 2016, Family Day, family life, Froese biography, home, The Prodigal Son, travel / 4 minutes of reading

(The Hamilton Spectator – Saturday, February 13, 2016)

MUKONO, UGANDA ✦ It was over lunch in Dundas with my sister, somewhere between the spring rolls and the coconut shrimp, when the question came without any hint to suggest this would be one of those ‘aha’ moments that can be unpacked and looked at and handled for a lifetime.

“So of all the places you’ve been,” she asked, “what’s your favourite?”

I might have said Paris or Berlin or Seoul, or maybe Amsterdam or London or Istanbul, or maybe somewhere in the Mid-East or Africa …

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(More) Turkish Delight (with a magic genie lamp this time)

1 Comment / Daily Dad / November 3, 2015 / 2015, contentment, Froese biography, genie lamps, Istanbul, journalism, joy, travel, Turkey, Turkish Delight / 4 minutes of reading

I’m back in Africa. But let’s go back just a few days. Hey, there’s a guy balancing four wine glasses, full, on top of each other, on his head. Everyone laughs. And cheers. That is one enormous and flat head. This, on an old cobblestone road in front of the Hotel Sultana, an otherwise non-descript

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O Canada, Hannah stands on guard for thee

Leave a Comment / Hamilton Spectator, Newspaper columns / June 30, 2015 / 2015, adoption, African adoption, Canada, Canada Day, Canadian citizenship, Canadian history, Froese biography, meaning of name Canada, The Canadian train, travel / 4 minutes of reading

(The Hamilton Spectator – Saturday, June 27, 2015)

HAMILTON, CANADA ✦ My youngest daughter, Hannah, is a cool girl who loves water, makes friends easily and puts lots of maple syrup on her pancakes. She laughs more than I do, often from a deep and hearty place.

She likes the fact that her name – which in the original Hebrew means “gracious” or “God’s gift to the world” – is spelled the same forwards and back.

Canada is cool too. It makes fine maple syrup and, as far as countries go, laughs more than many.

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One day, my story could be yours

4 Comments / Hamilton Spectator, Newspaper columns / February 21, 2015 / 2015, assisted suicde debate in Canada, assisted suicide, Froese biography, Goethe, suffering, suicide, The Sorrows of Young Werther / 4 minutes of reading

(The Hamilton Spectator – Saturday, February 21, 2015)

KAMPALA, UGANDA ✦ He was Swiss and we were talking over coffee and he said he’d just read my story about Canada’s new look at assisted suicide. He spoke as if I’d written on this, which I had not, or maybe he called it my story simply because I’m Canadian.

He said he didn’t know what all the fuss was about. Europe, after all, liberated itself from any shameful baggage on assisted suicide long ago. If you want to die, he explained, you can easily go to places and doctors for help.

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The Nature of Peace – Complete address

Leave a Comment / Other / February 17, 2015 / 2014 Peace Breakfast of YMCA of Hamilton-Burlington-Brantford, 2015, African culture, African university life, Arab culture, Christianity, Froese biography, relationships, spirituality, suffering, terrorism, Uganda, Yemen / 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

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Cradle-to-grave without free choice

Leave a Comment / Hamilton Spectator, Newspaper columns / January 24, 2015 / 2015, Christianity, danger, free choice, free speech, freedom of religion, Froese biography, Iraq War, Islam, religiosity, suffering, terrorism / 4 minutes of reading

(The Hamilton Spectator – Saturday, January 24, 2015)

KAMPALA, UGANDA ✦ He goes by a false name so he’s not found and killed. I just met him. I’ll call him Ahmed in this, his story. He recently shared it around our dinner table.

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25 years after The Wall fell

1 Comment / Hamilton Spectator, Newspaper columns / November 19, 2014 / 2014, 25th anniversary of end of Berlin Wall, Berlin, Berlin Wall, freedom, Froese biography, human nature, human rights, suffering / 4 minutes of reading

(The Hamilton Spectator – Saturday, November 15, 2014)

KAMPALA, UGANDA — It was still morning in Berlin on this Sunday when candles at the Church of Reconciliation were lit to honour yesteryear’s dead, the brave souls who ran from the uniforms and helmets and strong-armed authorities, who ran for freedom that was torn away, even as their flesh would be torn by barbed-wire and vicious dogs and bullets at that wall.

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Learning to be a kid again

Leave a Comment / Christian Week, Newspaper columns / October 14, 2014 / 2014, adoption, African adoption, children, Christianity, Froese biography, God's love, Thanksgiving, Ugandan adoption, Ugandan children / 3 minutes of reading

KAMPALA, UGANDA✦It’s the children who in the end will be given the keys to the Kingdom.

This is what Jesus said on the matter. Be a kid again. The way up is down. If you want even half a shot at eternal life, as if it were somehow possible, go and grow young.

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