How often have I found myself in the place of the disciples in today’s Gospel reading, where they do not understand Jesus when He foretells His death for the t...
Today's reading is Luke 23:26-49 (ESV):
The Crucifixion
26 And as they led him away, they seized one Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country, a...
The day I buried my grandma was hot and humid, like almost every day in Singapore, and the funeral home prepared large golf umbrellas for all the mourners to be...
Happy Birthday to me! Happy Birthday to me! Oh, how I look forward to growing just another year older today... and hopefully a little wiser also. However, age...
“Jesus was the only One that ever raised the dead,” the Misfit continued, “and he shouldn’t have done it. He thrown everything off balance. If He did what He sa...
"Vanity of vanities--all is vanity!" cries Qoheleth (or "the preacher") in what is perhaps the most mysterious and eerily modern book in the Old Testament canon...
Bare ruined choirs, where once the sweet birds sang… –William Shakespeare
There is something uniquely melancholy about a ruined church, I always think. Ruine...
The following is a true report of the happenings of 24th June 2010 in Central Park, Rochester, Minnesota, in my interactions with various personages of the Word...
Yesterday, some good friends of mine lost their grandfather. Although we often fear death as mighty and dreadful, it cannot truly kill us. As John Donne reminds...
I was watching Watership Down, the animated film last week in mourning for my two bunnies - Moonbun, whom I had to give up after fostering for a semester, and M...
