Category Archives: Poverty

Thinking About Kenya

Posted on March 8, 2008 by revrose

Every person’s home page has its little quirks, yes? The home page on my MacBook is set to IGoogle, which allows you to set up your own little front page of sorts. So I have news feeds from the BBC … Continue reading →

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Three Times the Sadness

Posted on February 16, 2008 by revrose

Right after P., S., and I arrived at the camp, we met Beatrice, her sister Nekesa, Beatrice’s daughter, and the newest members of their displaced family: triplets, born in the IDP camp one month earlier. In a space smaller than … Continue reading →

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Bread and Roses

Posted on February 15, 2008 by revrose

All across Kenya, camps have been established to deal with the post-election humanitarian crisis. The camps came into being after the political fallout here took on ethnic dimensions, and thousands of women, children and men were forced out of communities … Continue reading →

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Deep Questions

Posted on February 9, 2008 by revrose

This morning’s ICUU Leadership Training session, led by Canadian colleague Brian Kiely, focused on church structure and democratic process, but it quickly became much more than that. What these East African religious leaders brought to the discussion bore witness to … Continue reading →

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A Great Day

Posted on February 8, 2008 by revrose

The Methodist Guest House is largely silent now, after a day of conversation and laughter and deep sharing with the participants in our Leadership Training for East African congregations. I spoke this morning about Unitarian and Universalist history and theology … Continue reading →

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