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New Year Resolutions. Do they serve to make you feel guilty (in March) and have you psyching yourself up (in July) to make better resolutions for next year? Am an avid runner. Over the years, I have logged an… Continue Reading →
After my 18km run this morning, Nike congratulated me for hitting the 2000km mark. Yay God! I’ve had a good running year. And to celebrate it, I have made an impromptu executive decision to take a break from running until… Continue Reading →
It’s 11pm. Bar 30 minutes I spent at a customer’s factory in Seeta, a short 13km from my office (google gives 31 minutes’ driving time), I’ve been in the traffic for the last 6 hours. That’s a whooping 4.5 hours… Continue Reading →
On October 31st, 1517 (500 years ago), Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the door of the All-Saints’ Chapel in Wittenberg, Germany. This seemingly small act of personal conviction went on to become a watershed moment in the history… Continue Reading →
Airport terminals are a grim reminder of the transient nature of life. The walls and escalators could tell a thousand stories everyday. Of the lover who cannot wait to re-unite with their beloved. Of the businessman who is not too… Continue Reading →
In one scene of The Adventures of Tintin (the beloved comics series), the thoroughly clueless, extremely clumsy and incompetent detective duo of Thomson and Thompson are in their jeep, in hot pursuit of a gang of good-for-nothing chaps. And then… Continue Reading →
The End justifying the Means? In the early days of the Civil Rights Movement, Martin Luther King Jr was often accused of straddling the fence with his mode of ‘‘non-violent” resistance which he called ‘‘a courageous confrontation of evil by… Continue Reading →
To all my Christian friends who are throwing around Romans 13 (a passage on submission to governing authorities) as justification for remaining stone silent in the face of injustice, just a little word of instruction: God’s Word must never be… Continue Reading →
So our Legislators are at it. AGAIN. Soldiers of Fortune. Hirelings. Phlebotomists. Gerrymanderers! Where, along the trajectory of our history as a country did public service become self-service and a blatant destruction of the nation? Are our representatives mirroring our… Continue Reading →
One of the recurring images of the kingdom of God is a party. Yes, A PARTY! Jesus walked 99km (from Jericho to Cana) not to preach a sermon. Not to heal the sick. Not to raise the dead, but to… Continue Reading →