by Laura Seay | Oct 11, 2007 | Opinion
I saw the Halo youth-ministry story that everyone’s commenting on when I picked up a copy of the New York Times at the airport on Sunday. For those lucky enough not to have read the story, it seems that staging nights of playing Halo 3 (a rather violent video...
by Laura Seay | Jul 30, 2007 | Opinion
“Donne-moi.” (Give me). “Kusaidia” (Help.) I hear these two phrases a dozen or more times a day in the Democratic Republic of Congo. “Mzungu, donne-moi cinq cent francs.” Give me a dollar. “Kusaidia, Mama.” Help me,...
by Laura Seay | Jul 25, 2007 | Opinion
If there’s one thing I’ve learned from Congo, it’s that most aspects of human nature are universal. Sometimes this place seems like another world altogether, but again and again I’m reminded that we’re really not all that different when...
by Laura Seay | Jul 18, 2007 | Opinion
I was going to write today about the long and funny boat ride from Goma yesterday, about arriving in Bukavu, about how much nicer everything is in a place that hasn’t had a volcano go down its main street. I want to tell you about how beautiful it is here, how...
by Laura Seay | Jun 26, 2007 | Opinion
Breaking up is hard to do, but we Baptists seem to be pretty good at it, at least when it comes to our preferences about with whom and how we worship. We find points on which to disagree with an alarming regularity, define reasons to refer to one another as...
