Our story GOD REMAINS FAITHFUL TO US My name is Simwerayi Hubert Wetemwami and this is my wife Batyo Helene Simwerayi. We are originally from the Democratic Republic of Congo. We come from the East of Congo in a city called Goma. We have been married for 27 years we have five sons , two…
Desecration and the Sacred
Devotion given at the Vermont State House, January 2012 I am currently reading the new translation of Homer's The Iliad. I love it. I am embarrassed to say, that I've managed to go through 8 years of higher education without reading The Iliad. It is quite gory and quite enjoyable. I like the Greeks. I've…
Kings' Lies
And when we arrived in the region of Jerusalem, in the month of flowers, our good emissary led and brought us inside Jerusalem. . . And when we heard from them what they said, again we rejoiced greatly. And while we were exulting, we saw our leader and our guide; again we abounded in joy…
New Year's Dreams
Vanity of vanities, says the Teacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity. What do people gain from all the toil at which they toil under the sun? A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth remains for ever. The sun rises and the sun goes down, and hurries to the place where it rises. The wind…
Havel, Hitchens and Kim – Devotion given at Vermont State House 1/4/12
It was 22 years ago, almost to the day, that the Velvet Revolution came to an end in Czechoslovakia with the election to the office of President a man of peace – Vaclav Havel. Havel was most famously known for his leadership in that political uprising. To those who study his work, he was a…