If you lack context(background data about the issue) and perspective (present conditions and new developments) you don’t have the authority to comment or judge. From 1975 to 1986, Uganda was at war. Lots of internal wars and civil instabilities. There are few mothers with birth certificates. Many people ‘estimated their birth dates.’ More information emerges as to grow. And so dates change. And folks who indeed wrote exams themselves and never cheated got average marks owing to the lack of reading materials in many schools and the poor quality of teachers at the time, and over the years. Access to…
Family: How do we become a better family
Families are troubled in these modern times. Parents want to know how to be better. Parents have many deeply personal questions about parenting and few places to turn with them. Every family has something going on that is troubling. A difficult child, no time for prayer, no time for conversation, drinking addiction, debts, disagreements, poor leadership, poor communication. Love, respect and caring for one another should be at the centre of every family. A family that prays together stays together. A family should take care of the spiritual and material needs of the members. The family should receive and take…
Its not the Anti-Sugarcane squad: It is the Voice of the people
My dear sister Sheila, Allow me to address you as such because fate brings us together. First, your father and my mother are alumni of Bishop Tucker Theological College and have served the church faithfully. But also because we find ourselves on the different sides of the aisle-which is normal. I have read with concern your article entitled “Bugoma Forest: What the anti-sugarcane squad is not saying”. First, it is wrong to label whoever is standing against the alleged sale and conversion of Bugoma forest into sugarcane as broadly anti-sugarcane. We are not against sugarcane growing but rather against land…
Homily for Tuesday, Twenty-First Week in Ordinary Time
2 Thess 2:1-3a, 14-17 Mt 23:23-26 There is a verse in one of the prophets of the Old Testament, the prophet Micah, which many people feel drawn to. ‘What is it that the Lord requires of you but to do justice, to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God?’ To do justice is to give people what is their due as human beings and as images of God. To love mercy is to show mercy to others in the sense of forgiving others and serving them in their need. To walk humbly with your God is to be…
