ParadoxUganda

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Bee calm

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The swarm of killer bees mysteriously moved on after a day in the mango tree.  Not sure what they're looking for, but hopeful that they ...
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Monday, September 28, 2009

you know you're in Africa when . . .

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You're washing dishes and hear a peculiar almost electronic hum, but there are no electronics around, so you walk out to see what is hap...
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Sunday, September 27, 2009

Occasional thoughts (2): communalism

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The same book referenced below ( Foundations of African Traditional Religion and Worldview, by Ysusfu Turabi) shed light on a conversation w...
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Occasional Thoughts (1): spiritual arbirtrariness

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A few weeks back we entitled a post "arbitrariness and stress", about the experience of crossing borders and being stopped by poli...
Saturday, September 26, 2009

The Truth Will Make You Free

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This phrase popped up in our kid cartoon movie last night (Meet the Robinsons . . ).  But Jesus actually said it first, in John 8 . . . the ...
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Thursday, September 24, 2009

East Africa's "Perfect Storm": HOLD ON!

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From a news report yesterday:   The African continent is no stranger to humanitarian disasters. Climatic changes, war, financial hardship an...
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Wednesday, September 23, 2009

homework

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A massive rain storm swept in this afternoon, catching me at home between hospital rounds and chapel.  After half an hour of relentless pour...
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009

snapshots of a day

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Three hundred chicks, in a mud-walled and screened shelter, Jack helping our agricultural extension workers under John's supervision to ...
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One step forward, two steps back...

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Occasionally, the stars align...and the health care system in Bundibugyo works. Today, I (Scott) received a call from Jennifer who relaye...

frozen chickens

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When we moved to Bundibugyo, we joked that we would stay here until frozen chickens came to Nyahuka.  This was a way of gauging development:...
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paradox: 1. something that combines contradictory features or qualities. Life in Africa is full of contradictions - the beauty and pain; the abundance and the poverty; the joy and the sorrow. Our lives, too...dying that we might live; strong in our weakness; sinners yet saints. 2. a "pair of docs"
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