They Come Back Singing: Finding God with the Refugees

This is a very touching and inspiring book composed of short stories of a Jesuit Priest's every day experiences in Uganda with Sudanese refugees. Full of Catholic Theology but does not argue religious propositions.

This is a very moving book about a man finding the Lord in very deplorable situations. Seeing the strength and humor and watching him grow spirirtually is an awesome experince for the reader. I would love to see him write more books as he journeys through life.

The author, a Jesuit priest, spent about six years working with Sudanese refugees living in Uganda; he was "with them" in every way possible and came to love and be loved by many. The book is a series of rather short vignettes of his experiences and profoundly personal reflections drawn from those experiences. There is no effort in the book to prosyletize or argue religious propositions; but most of the primarily reflective pieces do draw on Catholic theological vocabulary. As one who has never been in Africa, I came away from this book with a very very different sense of the ordinary people there than I started out with. Nothing I have seen in the media has come at all close to describing the situation of Sudanese refugees with the poignancy or nitty-gritty detail of this enormously readable book.