Miracles
Let me briefly share two personal stories with you. I was 3 years old when my first brother was born. A few days later we learned he had a serious […]
Tag Archives: life
The Gospel according to Rapists
I have carried a knot in my throat ever since I read about the gang rape of a paramedics student in India last December. The crime stirred a raging debate […]
We Tend Our Gardens
“Why do bad things happen to good people?’” “If God is good, why does suffering exist?” “What does it mean?” These are questions that have been around as long as […]
Graceland: A Pilgrimage to See the King
Over the holidays I made a pilgrimage to see the King. My pilgrimage, I must confess, was not the most exacting of journeys. I traveled a mere 5 miles by […]
Love Continued
The movie About Time features a plot that surprised and touched me deeply, both for what it communicated and for what it didn’t. The blissful, romantic laughing-in-the-rain movie poster had […]
A stroll across the sky
Every now and then I spend an afternoon in the bookstore, savoring pages and dreaming adventurous stories about far-away characters. Recently I came across an unusual book by the French […]
James Bond’s relationship advice
In an interview this week to Time magazine, director Sam Mendes disclosed part of his work behind the lasted James Bond movie, Skyfall. Skyfall is the all-time highest grossing 007 […]
Richard Mourdock, Rape, and God’s Will
Unless you live in a cave, you are probably well aware that the US elections are on next Tuesday, which means that we should have some relief from US politics […]
Questions of Life
I’m not often asked about my views on abortion, but an article on 7th October written by Yasmin Alibhai-Brown for The Independent newspaper* prompted me to post some of my […]
Shopping for Life?
There was a time when people bought cars because they got them from A to B. Not so anymore. Today’s consumers buy cars that are ‘engineered to move the human […]
Wondering Fair 