Country Roads
Google “Mwea, Kenya”, and the search results reveal my homeplace. It’s a semiarid area with an unforgiving sun during the characteristically long dry seasons. A few baobabs and cactus plantsContinue Reading
Saints, Presidents, and Popes: Biden’s Meeting with Pope Francis Harkens Back to a Very Different Vatican-American Dynamic
It is no secret that the Catholic Church is in dark waters these days – battered alternately by the spectre of sexual abuse scandals, external condemnation of her “outdated” positionsContinue Reading
To Post or Not?
There are millions of childbirth videos on YouTube. Have you watched any? It seems everyone wants to share something nowadays. A New York Times article on the trend of womenContinue Reading
The Pro Life Apologetic Part 5: What About the Men?
In the summer, I went with my college pro-life group to the Southwestern Women’s Surgery Center, an abortion clinic in Dallas, Texas. We went there to do sidewalk counseling, holdContinue Reading
The Facade that is MSI Reproductive Choices
MSI Reproductive Choices, formerly Marie Stopes International, undermines Kenya’s sovereignty and pro-life policy by employing its wide network of international and local allies as bullies when Kenya tried to makeContinue Reading
Action Time is Now
Rampant corruption, mismanagement of public funds and incompetence at Kenya’s Ministry of Health combined with a shortage of funds for health infrastructure harms the health and wellbeing of Kenya citizens.Continue Reading
The Pro-Life Apologetic Part 4: The Cultural Narrative
Once, Mother Teresa and Hilary Clinton sat together at a White House lunch. Clinton asked casually, “Why do you think we haven’t had a woman as president yet?” Mother TeresaContinue Reading
What Will Be Said at Our Funerals?
A few weekends ago, I attended the funeral of a high school teammate’s father. Although I wasn’t a close friend of the family, I had always held them in highContinue Reading
How to Talk About Same Sex “Marriage”
If there’s any topic that gives the average conservative sweaty palms, it’s the same-sex marriage (SSM) debacle. While strongly intuiting that there is something profoundly wrong with SSM, many would-beContinue Reading
Have You Not Read
There is a statement Jesus used often as he talked with the Pharisees and religious leaders of his day: “Have you not read?” This phrase is both sarcastic in aContinue Reading