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Living Water in the House of Bread

Dec 24, 2020

In the year 2000, I thought it would be an opportune time to visit the Holy Land, and especially Bethlehem for Christmas to see what it was like two m
Christmas as shattering the containers of our expectations

Dec 24, 2020

Funny how God invariably shatters the containers of our expectations. We have a notion of how God should act and God ends up acting in a way that shat
Ten km apart – A world of difference

Dec 20, 2020

After all, the pandemic has taken a toll on the world and the economy has slumped. Many people are unemployed and suffering. Federal debt and exposure to liability has reached a mind-boggling RM1.3 trillion.
The illusion of invulnerability

Dec 19, 2020

Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. That’s a pious axiom that doesn’t always hold up. Sometimes the bad time comes and we don’t learn anything. Hopefully this present bad time, COVID-19, will teach us something and make us stronger.
2020 was a year like no other for Malaysia

Dec 13, 2020

A few years before the public intellectual Rustam Sani passed away in 2008, I met him in the heart of Kuala Lumpur.
From St Tarcisius to People magazine: our evolution in admiration and imitation

Dec 12, 2020

As legend (or truth) has it, Tarcisius was a twelve-year-old acolyte during the time of the early Christian persecutions.
Becoming universal brothers and sisters at the service of fraternity

Dec 06, 2020

In the eighth and final chapter of his encyclical letter Fratelli Tutti (Brothers and Sisters All), the Bishop of Rome lets us in on the personalities who inspired his reflection on universal fraternity.
Our wounds, our gifts, and our power to heal others

Dec 05, 2020

Those words, wounded and healer, ordain each other. I’m convinced that God calls each of us to a vocation and to a special work here on earth more on the basis of our wounds than on the basis of our gifts.
Moving from conflict to peace

Nov 29, 2020

Every nation, almost every community has painful events that are etched in its collective memory.
An invitation to maturity – Weeping over Jerusalem

Nov 28, 2020

Maturity has various levels. Basic maturity is defined as having essentially outgrown the instinctual selfishness with which we were born so that our motivation and actions are now shaped by the needs of others and not just by our own needs.