Guns ‘n’ roses: the murder of Joan Root
This item also appears on Dorian Cope’s wonderful blog On This Deity. Five years ago today, 69-year-old Joan Root lay alone bleeding to death from gunshot wounds at her home on the shores of Lake Naivasha in Kenya. Whodunnit? Who cut down this Kenyan-born English rose? And why? As a young woman, Joan was shy [...]
On kindness and Christianity
The not-for-profit organisation that I work for has recently changed its name. Its work for the past century and half with some of the poorest, most oppressed, most abused and most vulnerable women, in times of war, peace and political turbulence, is something I am immensely proud to be part of. To witness the change [...]
