Saturday, February 17, 2024

Back-to-School FANTASTIC news and yet . . help our unbelief!

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  Two weeks into the 2024 school year : Ugandan schools follow a year-round calendar-year schedule, with three 3-month terms spaced by three...
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Tuesday, February 06, 2024

Ragged Rainbows

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 Dry season has failed to blow in in Bundibugyo. Usually right around Christmas a hot wind heralds a departure of the daily rains and begins...
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Friday, December 29, 2023

Bucolic, exotic, horrific : why complex stories matter

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 Mostly our Christmas readings tend to sanitise the historical event with a focus on miracles, angels, light, gifts, bucolic shepherds and e...
Sunday, December 24, 2023

Turn Over, Bear Under (the lament and hope of Christmas 2023)

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Saturday, December 23, 2023

Christmas in the Ruins . . . choosing to be a doorway to good

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  Christmas Eve Eve . . .since the 24th and 25th will both have major church services, and today is market day, it feels like we are fully i...
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Monday, December 18, 2023

Creativity as an act of both beauty and survival

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This morning I read a quote by musician Jon Batiste, discussing a lullaby he wrote for his wife when she was hospitalised with relapsed leuk...
Saturday, December 16, 2023

Global, tangible, contemporary ... what the prophets saw, and we see

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 Week 3 of Advent took us to Isaiah and John the Baptist, two prophetic voices sent to prepare the way for the Messiah. Like most American C...