There is a town in Northern Uganda named Gulu. To get there from Kampala—Uganda’s capital—our bus traveled about 200 km, cutting through lush tropical jungles and eventually emerging into the dryer terrain surrounding Gulu. After nearly two weeks in Kampala, I thought I knew a lot about Uganda (a very arrogant assumption to begin with), but just a few minutes in Gulu proved me wrong. The city, its people, and its struggles were different. The...
It’s cold in Johannesburg. That surprised me because I always thought Africa was a hot place. That was the first of my expectations dashed upon the rocks of reality there. Accompanied by ten people, including seven high school students, I walked around an astonishingly large ghetto with bags of bread and canned foods. To be honest, it felt like a bad joke. I was walking around a neighborhood that contained a dumbfounding 1 million impoverished,...
This is an article born out of personal conviction. I don’t like the chapel requirement at Christian schools, and if I were to be completely honest, I’m guessing that most people are with me. When I was doing my undergrad, at the beginning of each semester I would have chapel weekend. This was when I would spend an entire weekend making up every single chapel from last semester so that I didn’t get put on...
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