Lesson from Tony Stark's Sacrifice

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When the actions we do is not easy to come, our identity becomes our motivating force just as it did for Tony Stark when he had to chose to give up his life to save planet earth. Next time you face a tough choice, going against the values of the culture, whether it be finding time to pray or going the extra mile for a friend, or to listen without arguing, take a breath, appropriating Tony Stark, remind yourself, "I am a disciples of Christ," and way of Christ-like self giving love.

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Robin Williams, and the Hunger for Hope

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When I was a kid, Robin Williams was enough to make me happy and hopeful for more happiness. Now that I have grown and become more aware of the cynical hopeless of life, my need for wonder and hunger for hope to compensate for the 'solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short' life has grown such that I need more than a phenomenally talented Robin William, I need a powerful and loving, transcended and immanent God to make my happy.

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Dementia of the Other Kind

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I pray to God that, my demented self, which remembers the vain trivia of this world but forgets the Lord would be turned to the dementia of the other kind, the blessed one, like that of this lady of old faith, which forgets the vain things of the world, but as the Philosopher of 'vanity of vanities' commends, "remembers the Lord".

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Frozen - A Thawing up to Real Love

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I could not have dreamt of a day when I would use a romantic Disney movie to exemplify the sort of  1 Corinthians 13 'real love' that St. Paul talks about - the real one that isn't about 'having it easy', but about moving mountains, albiet thorough pain and suffering.

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The Conjuring: A Parable that Disturbs...

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Evangelical Christians, as is normally the case, have rightly diagnosed the problem of obsessive demonology, but unfortunately the strategy evangelicals appear to be pursuing, of running a million miles in the opposite direction, suffers from the  mistake exchanging simplicity for a complex all encompassing worldview.

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All that is Gold Does Not Glitter!

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All that is gold does not glitter; Not all those who wander are lost... These words speak powerfully to the Christian living in the human condition. In life, everybody wanders. We never stay in one place. The question really is, are we wandering towards a destiny or are we truly lost.

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