I saw this book years ago, when I was in University, in SUFES bookstore. But I was too poor to buy it then, I mean, the little money that I had, I saved them for days when I had even lesser. Since then, I never saw the book again. I was captured by the cover [...]
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 [...]
Message shared at BM Gospel Centre - 12 October 2008
Freedom In Christ (Gal 5:1-15)
Whenever we come to the letters of Paul, I get very excited.
Not merely because Paul had something to teach us about the gospel and god and the church, but because there is always a story behind each of his sentences.
Understanding Paul – [...]
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 [...]
A friend sent me a mail purportedly a testimony of a former Catholic (who claimed to have mastered the Bible, specifically the four gospels) who is now a Muslim….in the email there were challenges thrown on the Christian belief on the Trinity. Below was my short response to my friend who asked for some clarification…
Same [...]
Regarding Pakatan States, Selangor and Penang’s ban on Islam Hadhari, I have wanted to write something but I think Farish Noor spoke my mind too well…I mean, he is the scholar after all, not me.
Enjoy…
http://www.othermalaysia.org/content/view/184/1/
Josh asked a weird question, a question we probably take for granted most of the time: Where is Jesus Christ?
And he tied in the question to the eucharist (lit. “good gift”). Where is Jesus Christ? He is in the bread and wine.
Presence is more than physical. It is probably nearer to sex the way Josh had [...]
If there is a common denominator of human experience, it must be the experience of pain and suffering.
I used to think alot about the “why” question when it comes to the issue of suffering. I think this is really a western philosophy-sort of thinking. Eastern traditions such as buddhism, taoism and confuciusism were concern with the more existential [...]
