Columns

Our gaze upon this city

Jun 05, 2014

Jesus, it seems, had mixed feelings towards the world. He loved the world, laid down his life for it, and challenged us to love the world, even as he criticized it harshly and stated clearly that it was opposed to him.
As polar ice caps melt, concern over rising sea levels mount

Jun 05, 2014

A study by the UK Met Office and Newcastle University has looked at how climate change could result in extreme bursts of rain during summer.
Dag Hammarskjold on sexuality and desire

May 29, 2014

The lusts of the flesh reveal the loneliness of the soul.
Why Francis’ visit to the Holy Land was so different

May 29, 2014

Pope Francis’ visit to Jordan, Palestine and Israel has been markedly different from his predecessors in more ways than one.
Mother’s Day

May 23, 2014

There’s an old adage that offers a wise counsel, even as it leaves us powerless to heed its advice: Pick your parents wisely!
Irony behind attack on the two nuns in Seremban

May 23, 2014

The attack on two nuns of the Infant Jesus religious order outside the Church of the Visitation shocked many.
The hudud debate: Stepping back from the chasm

May 16, 2014

So the two Pas private members’ bills, originally supposed to be tabled in Parliament in June, have been shelved.
A pilgrimage through nature, desire and soul

May 16, 2014

Nature, desire, and soul — we rarely integrate these well. Yet they are so inextricably linked that how we relate to one deeply colours the others; and, indeed, spirituality itself might be defined as what we each do in terms of integrating these three in our lives.
Accepting truth, whatever its cloak

May 08, 2014

When I was student in the seminary, I had two kinds of teachers: One kind, precisely because they were fiercely loyal to all that is Christian and Catholic, would have us read great secular thinkers but always with the intent of wanting to help show where these thinkers were wrong.
Massive Workers’ Day rally reveals undercurrents of discontent

May 07, 2014

Tens of thousands of Malaysians gathered at Dataran Merdeka on May 1 in the largest Workers' Day rally the nation has seen. They did not come to have fun, but to register their concern about the impending Goods and Services Tax and a host of other issues affecting the workers.