Divine Collision

Discover the compelling true story of a former L. A. lawyer and a Ugandan boy falsely accused of murder -- two courageous friends brought together by God on a mission to reform criminal justice.
Jim Gash, former Los Angeles lawyer and current president of Pepperdine University, tells the amazing story of how, after a series of God-orchestrated events, he finds himself in the heart of Africa defending a courageous Ugandan boy languishing in prison and wrongfully accused of two separate murders. Ultimately, their unlikely friendship and unrelenting persistence reforms Uganda's criminal justice system, leaving a lasting impact on hundreds of thousands of lives and revealing a relationship that supersedes circumstance, culture, and the walls we often hide behind.

Jim Gash graduated first in his law school
class at Pepperdine in 1993. Throughout
his career he has clerked with a federal
judge on the United States Court of
Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, worked at
one of the top law firms in the country,
and served as Pepperdine Law's Dean
of Students. In early 2010, Jim traveled
to Uganda for two weeks on a juvenile
justice project where he met Henry.
Since then, he has returned to Uganda
sixteen times. In 2012, he became the
Special Advisor to the High Court of
Uganda and in 2013 became the first
American ever to appear as an attorney in
Ugandan Court. Jim is married with three
children and lives in Malibu, California.