Learning trust in a suspicious world
Your mother is dead. Divorce knocks. Your son is lost. It’s cancer. You’re laid off. You’ve broken up. The car crash. You can’t stomach it all. Trust?
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Are we teaching our children a theology of suffering?
Nearing the five-year mark of my family’s foray into Uganda, here’s a mind-bender from my happy and ever-inquisitive four-year-old, Jonathan: “Daddy, when you grow up, are you going to be dead?”
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The end of the world as we know it
While we need not be entirely cheerful in the face of Armageddon, we can still offer the worried world something different.
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God and I have some similar values
An early-summer highlight of mine was this comment from a gentleman who stopped me in a London, Ontario church to say, “You know, your book cost me $4,000.”
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A culture of fatherhood
“You’re such a Dad-Dad.”
This phrase, a recent favourite of my three-year-old Jon, has reminded me anew that there’s nothing like fatherhood.
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Ritual murder on the rise in Uganda
KAMPALA, UGANDA – “The time has come,” the Walrus said, “to talk of many things.” From Lewis Carroll’s nonsense verse “The Walrus and the Carpenter,” this is what comes to mind when I read the newspapers here. Is the world getting madder?
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I’ve resolved to spend more time behind bars
So it’s that time of year when all of our New Year resolutions aren’t yet broken. Among mine is to get into jail more often.
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In Uganda the “war of childbirth” continues
Her name is Fatmata. She is an African mother. And this is her story.
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