On Friday morning, the president announced that he would address the nation that evening. Announcing a speech with no notice is never good news. We …
Uganda
Here we go again
On the evening of 6 June, the president addressed the nation and finally announced what we were all dreading and yet expecting: since our COVID …
Uganda update
Greetings from rainy Mukono! I wanted to give you an update on how we are in Uganda here. Like the rest of the world, we are watching with somewhat …
Ugandan quarantine
I must say, it has been quite surreal to read the news about Coronavirus in the world, especially in the US, mostly because it's hard to see the …
Abbott and Costello in Uganda
It's always fun when I can bring a bit of Americana to my students. Yesterday in class with my Master of Divinity I students, one of them asked me …
Supervision selfies
One of my favorite things about being a lecturer is supervising our students in their block placement churches, or senior internships. It's so fun to …
Rain, rain go away
I've been hearing that the rain in Mukono, and in Uganda generally, has been too much. The rainy seasons often bring mudslides, so news of those was …
Good to be home
After seven months in the US, I was more than a little concerned about how my reentry to Uganda would be. I'd become pretty Americanized; I even …