I live in a country rich in culture and tradition. A country full of beauty and strength both in its nature and its people.

In the last fifty years, it has been riddled with enmity, wars,  hatred and calamity one after another in the vicious cycle of an excuse we call life. My country’s people have been divided by skin tone, nose shapes, tribal wars and cultural norms. It has abandoned it’s value systems that made humanity admirable and has adopted ideologies that promote animosity. 

Amidst this, as a believer in the transforming truth of the Bible,  one would think the church would have had the solutions when our presidents failed, and our rulers fled. The church would have brought people together under the umbrella of love. 

But No! Even the church hides its shame behind the shelter of religion, division,  and deception.  There, tribalism, sectarianism,  nepotism and heinous injustices are now accepted as part of the system.
‘its the way the world is!’ we hear the pulpits regurgitate the same old story the world has been screeming. There is hardly any repudiation of society’s follies because the church is too engrossed in the refuse to recognise the harm.
The church that should speak peace promotes hatred Where it should be silent we are most vocal. Where its voice should be heard the most, we are rendered mute.

Let me illustrate.
Recently, in the social media, all over the Internet and news blasts, one of our kings Oyo, of Toro kingdom, a young clueless man happened to have ‘disrespectfully ‘ (or so it would seem) addressed the Buganda kingdom’s priminister, (another king’s subject).
The details and facts as to whether this is verified as disdainful behavior by the king are scanty and all that is put out there is outrage and hypocritical accusations on a young king that is still quite frankly learning the ropes.(.hence the use of clueless.)
The Baganda both believers and alike have caused an uproar against the kings actions.
Tensions rising and the Toro die hards both believers and alike are fanning the flame of furry. This is causing more hatred and inciting cyber violence that can easily result into something worse. 

Where is the voice of the church?
The voice that should promote love and understanding! Respect and honor!

I call them hypocritical accusations because not too long ago, the kabaka of Buganda himself, with all due respect, had a child out of the official wedlock which in the law of the land, is called udultery! Yes I said it! Our beloved kabaka committed udultery in the eyes of the people of Uganda, and in the eyes of the Lord. To put it in a language we understand,  he Cheated on the Nabagereka of Buganda.

Where was the voice of the church then?
Don’t get me wrong. Yes I understand he is the kabaka and perhaps as some would like to think, he owns all the women in Buganda.
The irony here is that there is a social media uproar against an unverified mode of kingly conduct due to post-royal- adolescence confusion and then a celebration of another king’s infidelity because he has a son this time. This by the church and alike. The church was especially silent about the infidelity.

I can’t begin to describe what is repulsive about what I just said.
This is aside all the sexist, tribalistic and ethnocentric messages we are subtly sending our young children growing up in this horror.

I ask again, where is the voice of the church? Where is the voice of un udulterated truth? Where is the strength of goodness? Where is the power of love that cuts across borders and boldly brings hearts to repentance?
Where is the desire for transformational Christianity in a dying and decaying society?

May He raise a generation that knows no tribal or racial boundaries.
A generation after transformational truth.
A generation that will raise Uganda out of the divides of religion and sectarianism and usher it into the age of social justice, mercy and compassion.
Oh Uganda, May God uphold thee.