Froese biography Archives – Page 3 of 8

An anniversary wish to the music of my life

10 Comments / Hamilton Spectator, Newspaper columns / July 29, 2016 / 2016, anniversaries, Charles and Di wedding anniversary, Dr. Jean Chamberlain Froese, Froese biography, marriage, relationships / 4 minutes of reading

(The Hamilton Spectator – Friday, July 29, 2016)

HAMILTON, CANADA ✦ It’s a warm and ordinary day, warm and ordinary enough to run around in shorts and bare feet.

The children’s mother, your babe, that is your bride, is playing your song. The cats are in front and the dog’s in back and the kids are doing homework and nothing much is happening, except this song from the piano in the other room, the piece that makes your blood jump every time.

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Home is a place of God’s differences

2 Comments / Newspaper columns, The Standard / May 23, 2016 / 2016, African culture, African university life, Christianity, Froese biography, Jesus Christ, race / 3 minutes of reading

(The UCU Standard – Monday, May 23, 2016)

MUKONO, UGANDA ✦ It was in Canada and we were at a campy lakeside retreat, and it was a beautiful summer day and a gaggle of children were playing outside the large window near where we ate.

My daughter, that is my adopted Ugandan daughter, Hannah, looked at me with a tear rolling down her cheek. I asked her what was the matter, and, looking down in shame, she said, “I’m the only black person here.”

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Froese, the prodigal

Leave a Comment / Daily Dad / February 15, 2016 / 2016, blasphemous phrases, cliches, Family Day, Froese biography, The Prodigal Son, writing / 4 minutes of reading

The thing about working with words is that they can get tired and worn and they can lose their meaning. The wordsmiths who handle (and mishandle) them can easily forget this. Yours Truly is no less guilty than any. I was reminded of this this morning when Faithful Spec Reader took the time to tell

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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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