Hero Blessing and the blessing of a hero

It never gets old.

Cathedral Ruhengeri Student Center is an Anglican-affiliated project in Musanze, a prosperous and fast-growing town that serves as a launching place for gorilla safaris.  Musanze is in Shyira Diocese, which was the diocese of one of my heroes, Bishop John Rucyahana (before he retired), the author of The Bishop of Rwanda–Finding Forgiveness in a Pile of Bones.  He [...]

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rwanda: land of sorrow and hope

I wrote this a few years ago following a Compassion-sponsored mission trip, but didn’t have a blog at that time.  So I’m sharing it now. Rwandans call their country “the land of eternal spring.”  Temperate and lush, it is a physically beautiful country, patterned everywhere with neatly terraced slopes bottoming in mist-shrouded valleys.  Hard to [...]

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