In the Bible the number 40 means a very long time. When we read that “it rained 40 days and 40 nights,” that is not to be understood literally; simply that it rained for a long. long time.
This morning, I thought of the biblical meaning of 40 when I met Atty. Camilo Sabio at [...]
I spent Holy Thursday to Easter Sunday in Naujan, to be with Inay. The hours I spent by her bedside, watching her sleep, gave me quiet time to reflect on a theme that recurs in my life - passion death and resurrection.
The theme had a very personal angle during those days, because of the pain [...]
Last Sunday, after 12 days away from home and country, I could relate to the feelings of OFWs who usually clap their hands when their plane hits the runway.
I even saved on the 740 pesos charged by the airport taxi service, since Viking Logarta whom I met in Phnom Penh was on the same flight [...]
In their book Leading for a Lifetime, Warren Bennis and Robert Thomas singled out “crucibles” as the crucial test and formative factor in leadership. The imagery is from medieval alchemy; a crucible is a vessel where ordinary metal is transformed into precious ones.
Crucibles usually connote dramatic, life-changing events and challenges. But they can also be less dramatic, [...]
My New Year’s reading is Victor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning. Actually more like a re-reading, since I had gone through an earlier edition of this book during my prison years. It inspired one of the quotations I used on the greeting cards and wall decors we made for our friends and solidarity contacts: “Those [...]
December 28 is celebrated in Catholic popular culture as the Feast of the Holy Innocents, and is a day when practical jokes are expected and legitimate. It’s our April Fool’s day.
I don’t know where April Fool’s day had its origins. The Feast of the Holy Innocents is from the biblical tale. An insecure King Herod [...]
We came back to our hotel just before midnight, from an enjoyable evening with Maria and her husband Azeez, who hosted our ASPBAE group at their new flat.
Azeez was the chef for the night. He served us a delicious meal - chicken cooked with herbs, eggs with spices, and aubergine with yogurt. I remember the [...]
During the afternoon break at the E-net conference on ALS, someone asked me: “Can you explain to me the Buddhist belief in God.?” She said that she was doing a paper comparing Islam, Christianity, and Buddhism.
I said I had not really studied Buddhism. But I referred her to a symposium on “Religion and Politics in [...]
Tomorrow I fly to Jakarta, for a week-long visit to Indonesia. Am not sure if I have time to do any posting there, so I write this before leaving early morning tomorrow for the airport.
I will meet the workers unions and farmers organizations being supported by the PMK, headed by Indera Nababan, a Batak [...]
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