The real challenge in creativity — to enter the song

March 06, 2014

There are three kinds of performers: The first, while singing a song or doing a dance, are making love to themselves. The second, while performing, are making love to the audience. The third, while on stage, are making love to the song, to the dance, to the drama itself.

Taboo words

As I write this, Penang Hill has vanished without a trace if viewed from the mainland. A thick haze has descended on the island.

Religious coinage

No one, be that an individual or an institution, controls access to God. Jesus makes this abundantly clear.

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Pope Francis’ choice of 19 new cardinals has come under scrutiny for hints as to the direction he wishes to take the church. Immediately obvi....

Our pagan resistance to the other world

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The times they are a-changin’

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Holiness, wholeness and depression

External appearances can easily fool us, and often do. That's true in every area of human life, and religion is no exception.

Church of the Poor: Matching rhetoric with real action

These past few weeks, a number of people I know have taken ill or been admitted to hospital for various ailments. And their experiences in the hosp....