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This is one of the images I can’t get out of my head: It was being pulled through the filthy streets of a slum by a bald headed girl in a pale yellow dress wearing worn red flip flops. [I have a video of it but I don’t think I can upload it until I…

For these past days as my fellow bloggers and I have gone through Uganda, I have gained a new appreciation for the Gospels. Read Carlos and Shaun and Anne and Randy and my other friends and see their different and beautiful takes on what we’ve seen. In reading it understand that we have all seen…

Today’s journey took us outside Kampala’s squalor and desolation and into creation. Uganda is a land of rolling hills carpeted by rich soil that births vibrant green life. I just didn’t know that yesterday. Today though, in Kisoga, I learned more than that. It started when I got off the bus and was greeted by…

50 miles outside Uganda today, in the back of a school, in a town accessible only by bumpy clay roads, I looked down on the ground and found this: The Obama movement knows no geographic or cultural or political limits.

I couldn’t escape the horror – that was the horror. That was my 2am realization. As I stood inside that 6′ x 6′ hell hole and as I walked through the slum the horror was that I couldn’t get away from it. It was pressing in on all sides via all of my senses. There…

To make mention of Barack Obama’s name in this small country is to turn on a lightbulb in people’s eyes. Person after person simply says, “O-bam-a…” and there is a sigh and a slight smile… there is a bit of hope. How has this man managed to inspire hope here? It is something thoroughly remarkable…

Tonight I am numb. I came to Uganda prepared to see suffering, to celebrate hope, and to provide – in the smallest ways through this blog – an insight for others into that mysterious thing called poverty. What I wanted to avoid – at all costs – was the hopelessness, the eye-numbing pictures of abject…

Not only did Hillary Clinton lose four primaries over the weekend, not only did she have to change campaign managers, not only did she cry again but now Barack Obama is a Grammy award winner, beating Bill Clinton: Obama, who is vying to become America’s first black President, won a Grammy on Sunday, beating former…

One night nearly five years ago I had a dream. I only remember bits and pieces of it but that it probably because I was only supposed to remember one piece of it. For the first time and for the only time in my life I dreamt that someone – I don’t know that I…

I used to think I was spectacular at forgiveness. For years, for most of my life actually, I thought forgiveness was a specialty. Then I slowly came to realize something – when I got hurt I didn’t forgive, I just said I forgave while burying the hurt. That, as someone once said to me, is…
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