For much of the second half of the 20th century Cambodia was racked by war and famine. Yet it was not always like this. Before its rice fields were stained with blood in the mid-1960s, Cambodia was celebrated as a land of fertile tranquility where a predominantly Buddhist people continued ...
As recounted in the Book of Acts (19:11-20), the miracles of the Apostle Paul led many pagan sorcerers in Ephesus to convert to Christ, whereupon they publicly burned their spell-books. Scripture concludes this episode with the words:So the word of the Lord grew mightily and prevailed. Th...
January 27, 2019byevent11 *Valentine’s Day (The Day of Love)* Season of Love is upon us. Yes, I’m talking about the 14th of February a.k.a Valentine’s Day. Love is one of the most fundamental elements of life. As Great Sufi Mystic Rumi Said “Love is the essence of Life”...
Just so that I put all my cards on the table, I have not practised any religion or belonged to any religious faith (with their trappings of scripture, priests and places of worship) from my teen years. That’s 30 years of uninterruptedsecular humanism. Indeed, ‘secular humanist’ is the...
11. Francis helps us to see that an integral ecol- ogy calls for openness to categories which tran- scend the language of mathematics and biology, and take us to the heart of what it is to be hu- man. Just as happens when we fall in love with someone, whenever he would gaze at ...