Thuita J. Maina's Blog: Reflections of a Christian

Dad bought us books when we were growing up, but it wasn't until 2007 when I was a university student that I realized how plentiful the books...

One Sunday in January 2007 when I was a student at Starehe Institute, I heard a priest tell a shaggy-dog story. It was about a travelling...

I bought "Age-Proof Your Brain" in 2007 when I was an engineering student at JKUAT. But it was not until 2017 that I read it to the end.

Quite...

Even though Chinua Achebe never won a Nobel Prize, he was one of the best, if not the best, African novelists. And I think "A Man of the People"...

I have realized I need people, and that I am not that different from them. That I am not that different became clearer to me when I was taking my...

Several days after I joined Starehe in January 2002 for my high school education, a senior housemate called Jesse Nyoro heard that I could play...

When we had a family gathering in December 2012, I sang the wonderful old hymn "Father Hear the Prayers We Offer" whose fourth verse goes as...

Billy Graham famously described the Bible as God's love letter to us. I agree with him because several Bible verses reassure me that things will...

In 2010, I read two speeches by Richard C. Levin, the then Yale president. They inspired me so much that I read them over and over again. One...

While on YouTube last week, I stumbled on Owen Mac's "I believe". Hearing him sing of how he held his mother's hand as she closed her eyes...