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Sunday, November 27, 2022

Advent 2022: the paradox of walking in darkness to see light

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 We all want to see the glorious sparkling lights, not exactly something we have to be talked into. As we turn the corner from Thanksgiving ...
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Wednesday, November 23, 2022

Thank you for Surviving: Thanksgiving in the context of risk, celebrating with community

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Thanksgiving, an American holiday but a universal foundation for life . Reaching the 4th Thursday in November outside of American culture me...
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Thursday, November 17, 2022

Malawi, stories, and rain at the frayed edge of grace

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A week ago we pulled out of our gate in the early morning, to drive across Uganda through rainy season profligate green to the international...
Monday, October 31, 2022

All Hallow's Eve: on community and facing the unseen realities

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Theology, in most of the world, is a communal concept.  In Africa, we remain hourly aware of the impossibility of survival individually. We ...
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Wednesday, October 26, 2022

Love, mystery, beauty: thoughts on why we keep on going on

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I got a text this week, asking why we keep going. Perhaps inertia, perhaps hope, perhaps the sovereign plans that are bigger than us, perhap...
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Friday, October 21, 2022

How to risk Joy?

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 Paradox was a concept I first encountered in GK Chesterton's writings (before we were even a pair of docs) and have held onto like a li...
Thursday, October 13, 2022

Living on the Edge

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If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much room . Our friend Pat found that on a shirt for us once and bought it of...
Sunday, October 09, 2022

Character, purpose, and seeking the good life in Uganda

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Uganda, as a 20th century political entity, turns 60 today . 1962 saw both of us emerge from gestation and begin a long path towards each ot...
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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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