To you, the young start-up CEO with bold dreams and drive and talent struggling to survive in a country that is outright discouraging for business To you, father and mother fraught with worry over your child’s safety, over their future, over the possibility of them being all you would hope they would be, doing all […]
A Lesson From A Recent Retreat
Today marks exactly two months to my 30th Birthday. I always do a sort of retreat towards my birthday, either the week leading up to or the month or- like last year, retake the 40 day reading/meditation of Rick Warren’s A Purpose Driven Life. This time I want to go into the new decade with […]
The Lies We Christians Let Slip…
I regularly find myself faced with a situation where I have to defend my faith based on the gullibility of some ‘Christians’ like these ones in Kenya who seemingly believed their pastor brought Jesus back to earth just for their church service… This is when unbelievers call us out like… Is this your faith? Are […]
The Journey is a Triathlon, But You’ve Been Trained for a Sprint
When I present myself as a doctoral student, a writer, with a youth development organization as well as a regular blogging gig on the side- I often get ‘the look’. That look says “oh wow, so you’re doing all that eh? You’re one of those I can do it all women eh?” I typically take […]
Let’s be real: Being a Christian Is Hard.
Our churches are beginning to sound like the marketing interns who have been commanded to get a certain number of customers each day. Nearly every message preached speaks of Abraham’s blessings, of everlasting life, of healing, of forgiveness…. of the “Good News”. I know, I know, that is the gospel, right? It IS the Good News. And […]
Look Back A Little More
Motivational messages often say we shouldn’t look back on the journey. That we should forget the past and look forward in hope. They generally assume that thinking of past pains is a negative exercise. They’re not altogether wrong, but I have found that the message is not carved in stone and applicable to all situations. […]
What Lesson Are You Learning Now?
Dear Christian Bro/Sis, Consider this: the Christian’s life is part prep school, part boot camp. We’re being groomed, pruned, molded and made ready for life in God’s kingdom. A popular song in Cameroon goes: Holy, Heaven is Holy (2x) Only the righteous shall enter there, Heaven is Holy I used to think the song meant we […]
An Ode to the Angry Feminist (March 2019’s Missing post II)
Each March, in celebration of women’s month I do a post related in some way to feminism or the women’s movement. As with the last post (the #AboutmyFaith post made on 1st of April 2019), this one was to go up in March but for reasons beyond my control, it’s coming a bit late. So […]
Music for the Journey (March 2019 Missing Post)
Twice now, I have come across an interesting post on Facebook which asked me to consider my life as a movie and suggest what songs are on its soundtrack. I love(d) the idea of my life’s soundtrack album but didn’t exactly follow the instructions the first time I considered it as per the post. That […]
All Seasons Matter
Dear Reader, As of January of 2018, I began a commitment to using my blog as a medium for sharing about my faith in Jesus Christ. It was, in my way, a means of ministry as well as exercise for spiritual growth. So each month since then I have published two posts each month. One […]