Some samples of Obama by South African cartoonist, Zapiro: See a large selection of Zapiro cartoons of Obama here. It’s interesting to see the tension in the US and Canada over caricatures of an African-American president. Political caricatures are brutal. But the concern over being racist has [...]

From comics How about you? How have you changed Africa and vice versa? If you [...]

Thérèse of Lisieux underwent profound changes in her experience of faith during the Easter of 1896: Before that time she thought that atheism was a flaunted position, a sham… Finally, her eyes were opened to realize that unbelievers really exist. –Jean-François Six quoted in Celtic Daily [...]

Trivia Tete is only 432 feet above sea level despite being 250 miles from the sea. Even though Mueda is lower than Nampula its climate is much cooler. The two cushiest assignments in Mozambique are Chimoio and Lichinga. Our [...]

They can’t help it. It’s in their vowels. According to work done by numerous researchers it has been shown that saying certain vowels can increase your facial temperature and worsen your mood. The happiest vowel is [i] as in “cheese!” and the unhappiest vowel is [ɯ], the close back unrounded vowel favored [...]

There’s something just plain right about walking out of the house early in the morning feeling all groggy and waking up with a bica dupla at a sidewalk cafe. You can just sit there without feeling it necessary to do anything spiritual like read your Bible (something that I always try to do [...]

How appropriate that the taxi driver was jamming to Dire Straits while driving me through Nampula. This footage is ascending the FPLM road toward the SIL center. I could make up a whole songlist for lonely guys like me on the road: I’m a long long way from [...]

“Coded references to biblical passages are inscribed on gunsights widely used by the US and British military in Iraq and Afghanistan, it has emerged.” BBC: Gunsights’ biblical references concern US and UK forces Image: Daily Mail A friend suggested MT10:34, “Do not suppose [...]

Note: This post originally included content that unfairly criticized a fellow blogger. I apologize for that. At the same time the comment thread contains ideas worth saving and the topic itself is more important than it should be. Numbers in the Bible are loosely symbolic at times but the internal [...]

While you might have heard about the situation in Uganda, in our part of Africa the buzz is about a gay marriage in Malawi that ended in arrest of the “bride” and groom. My post at Think Christian considers a Christian response to government legislation on consensual sexual behavior. I don’t think it’s necessarily the [...]

Always entertaining. Frequently outrageous. Almost certainly entering therapy. The infamous Jim West, scourge of the biblioblogosphere has once again shut down his blog and gone into hiding. He’s done this before. Once, as reported on this humble blog, Jim’s blog was destroyed due to mysterious causes. At that time I suggested these possible causes: [...]