Missionaries from my church are, once again, embarking on a mission trip to Haiti. They often go to Haiti and other parts of South and Central America, the Caribbean, Africa, and India. This seems to be the typical itinerary for missionary groups in many churches in the United States. In fact, two […]

This morning I pulled out my dusty Commodores CD and downloaded it to my ipod. I had not touched that CD for years and felt like listening to some old-school jams as I hopped on the treadmill. As I listened to “Nightshift” this morning, my mind reached back to my early college […]

I’ve been watching, with a mixture of fear and horror, the fight for power between Mwai Kibaki and Raila Odinga in the wake of the last Kenyan presidential elections. People went to the polls in Kenya, hoping for a smooth political process. The Kikuyu, the Luo, and other ethnic groups worked to keep Kenya […]

The other day I stumbled upon the Tyra show on television. Her topic for the day was age and appearance. She paraded a number of women of varying ethnicities before the screen and asked her audience to guess how old they were from their appearance. To everyone’s delight and horror, the “specimens” […]