Browse photos and learn more below, including how you can expand the network with us! Why A Solar Communication Project? When a dictator and his regime begin to realize people are organizing themselves to create a better society, they make things difficult and cut off the electricity supply. UMEME is the electricity provider for Uganda, […]
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On Not Being an Orphanage: Development(‘s History) vs./and Liberation
What if development, as we knew it, was inherently bad? I have not written on this blog for quite awhile, because I was reading. It was the first book I have read since college, and it was a dense, long-winded one: Fr. Gustavo Gutierrez’s “A Theology of Liberation.” Gutierrez’s basic argument is that truly Christian […]
Responding to a Dream
I would have never imagined God speaking to me through a dream. Nor would I have ever trusted anyone telling me God spoke to them through a dream. So out of fairness, feel free to disregard the entire story below. I have no credible evidence, nor even a desire to prove that what I’m about […]
Spiritual Worldview and Worship Music: America v. Uganda
Today I attended a worship service at a church which I believe is struggling to authentically enact and understand the radical communion (“common union”) of the Kingdom reality. Its musical worship did not consistently feel like it measured up to this commitment, though. Week after week, in this church and in others, I find myself […]
What life in Uganda has to do with Sandy Hook violence
When I first began living with a Ugandan family, even in an urban setting, I had trouble sitting still. My body was jittery. The ninth-grade drummer in me couldn’t stop tapping on furniture to break the silence. I sat in a dark room for hours at a time, dwelling in the ambiance of human breath and […]