Columns

  • Sharing and caring – and a question of land ownership

    Feb 28, 2018

    There are so many ways to be human, but all too often our own modern and mainly urban societies are used as the yardstick for what is universally human.

  • Faith and superstition

    Feb 15, 2018

    The power of a subordinate clause, one nuance within a sentence, and everything takes on a different meaning.

  • The heavy price of speaking the truth

    Feb 15, 2018

    In recent times, we have become acutely conscious about the importance of speaking the truth — and the heavy price that sometimes comes with it.

  • How does God act in our world?

    Feb 09, 2018

    There’s an oddity in the gospels that begs for an explanation: Jesus, it seems, doesn’t want people to know his true identity as the Christ, the Messi

  • What would Jesus do?

    Feb 09, 2018

    As countless fellow human beings suffer terribly in a myriad of ways and much of our planet groans from gaping human induced wounds, our government, other governments, and many well-off people, seem to hardly care. It is what Pope Francis calls a “globalisation of indifference.”

  • The Earth as a living breathing organism: Reorienting our world view

    Feb 09, 2018

    At this time, our thoughts will start drifting towards the much anticipated general election. The coming election is expected to be hotly contested by the ruling coalition and the opposition parties.

  • Overcoming the divisions that divide us

    Jan 31, 2018

    We live in a world of deep divisions. Everywhere we see polarization, people bitterly divided from each other by ideology, politics, economic theory,

  • From winter to spring, from despair to hope

    Jan 31, 2018

    Recently, a cold spell swept over the nation. The temperature in the Klang Valley dipped to 22C and it was even colder in Cameron Highlands where it dropped to 15C — perhaps the closest we have come to experiencing a ‘winter’ of sorts in the modern era.

  • Can you lose your vocation?

    Jan 24, 2018

    Our Christian vocation is to make what we are in fact living – married, priest, religious, single in the world – a life of selflessness and service to others. Happiness and salvation are contingent upon that, not upon guessing correctly.

  • Francis slams corruption, unsustainable development, environmental degradation of our times

    Jan 24, 2018

    The Bishop of Rome has highlighted some of the critical issues of our time during his recent trip to Latin America.