From Father Henri Nouwen’s Return of the Prodigal Son
“Often I have asked friends to give me their first impression of Rembrandt’s Prodigal Son. Inevitably, they point to the wise old man who forgives his son: the benevolent patriarch.
“The longer I look at ‘the patriarch’, the clearer it becomes to me that Rembrandt has done something [...]
I think I’ve said it a lot of times, and you probably heard it many more times within the Church…in my PKV (varsity christian fellowship) days, the question we asked ourselves and one another was, how can we be “relevant”, especially to the society we live and work in.
I still operate by that question, but [...]
I was just thinking of the old legend of Lilith, no time to divulge much info here…go wiki “Lilith”.
Anyway, the story goes that Lilith, Adam’s first wife, spoke god’s name and attained power to liberate herself from Adam.
The thing about names in the Bible…there is something of a person, not just his personality, but a [...]
Kit Siang called Teresa Kok a saint.
St. Teresa of Seputeh
I think she’s somewhat of a prophet as well…
Excerpt from an interview of YB Teresa Kok by Guang Ming Daily the same week after her release from unjust detention under the Internal Security Act (ISA)
Q: Will this arrest affect the way you do things in the [...]
Teresa is out…but there are still Raja Petra (RPK) and more than 60 detainees under the ultra vires Internal Security Act (no official stats from BN Government).
Out of the mouth of babes…
Innocent eyes and minds innocent still,
Came to protest our Country’s ill.
We are not so innocent, but we want to do our little part…
Throughout last [...]
As we are all waiting for the dawn of a new era for our beloved Malaysia, let us take some time to listen to conscientious voices from former times…
The ancient social reformer Isaiah Ben Amoz said these words to a corrupted nation, and I think he speaks to us today as well, both as a warning…
Damn [...]
The grandson of an immigrant family from India felt the need to reassert his “Malayness” and decided to remind everyone that the non Malays were “penumpang” rightly or wrongly. Then a journalist from a Chinese press did her job and reported what was said because the statement by the grandson was made in a public [...]
My previous post on the Ahmad Ismail-Koh Tsu Koon episode was published in the Micah Mandate website today, albeit with some alteration (too partisan?? hehehe…)
I have been receiving SMS-es to boycott nasi kandar restaurants for their purported support of Ahmad Ismail’s unapologetic racism and just a few moments ago another SMS asking people to stay [...]
The Ahmad Ismail-Koh Tsu Koon episode has exposed Barisan Nasional’s true colours in terms of racial unity - they have none. I think BN’s accusation of Pakatan Rakyat’s marriage of convenience now echoes loudly back at them. There has never been room for true racial integration in Barisan Nasional’s communal politics. Each of its main [...]
As I was reading Ahmad Ismail’s statement and his reiteration of the supposed “racist” statement, I remembered a little “berbalas pantun” I had with a Malaysiakini reader two years back:
He wrote:
Ishak Abd Rahman:
Surat protest di katakan ultimatum Pemuda
Memorandum komponen BN dikatakan permintaaan saja
Jeff Ooi dan Malaysiakini nak main isu apa?
Bebaik nanti termakan kata kata [...]
