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CONTRASTING & COMPLEMENTARY COUSINS
This piece is occasioned by the Gospel reading at the third Sunday of Advent. From prison, John the Baptist sent his emissaries to Jesus with the question “Are you the one who is to come, or are we to expect someone else?” (Mat 11:3). A seemingly innocuous question, but pregnant with meaning. In the midst…
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IS CONVERSION NECESSARY?
By “conversion” I here mean the explicit act of baptising a non-Christian to make such a person Christian. We know that the right-wing Hindutva brigade has always been against religious conversion, thinly veiled as “forceful conversion”. Several anti-conversion laws have been passed in various States, not just by the BJP, but even by the Congress…
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ADVENT ADVENTURES
The Advent season is upon us. It is a preparation for Christmas, depending on our priorities. The Hindi word for Advent is Aagman. It is the same word used at airports for Arrivals. Advent means just that – the coming or arrival of somebody or thing. Can Advent be an adventure? It can. However, the…
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PETER UNCHAINED
(A SEQUEL TO “Generally Speaking”) In February 2017, I was in Rome to attend the marriage of my niece to an Italian. The nuptials were held in the church of San Giuseppe Dei Falegnami constructed above the Prigione Dei SS Apostoli Pietro e Paolo, near the Roman Forum. This is where Peter and Paul were…
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JESUS & THE TV ANCHOR
TV anchors were recently in the news (pun intended) because of the strictures passed against them by a Supreme Court bench of Justices K.M. Joseph and Hrishikesh Roy, in the matter of promoting hate speech. They termed it “multi-layered, like killing someone, you can do it in multiple ways, slowly or otherwise”. What is wrong…
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Your play on the words scribe, scribble, scrabble and scramble is very apt and has neatly traced the route to…
I really envy the depth of your scriptural knowledge and its sitz in laben , unfortunately I sing the hymn…
Thank you for this insightful piece. Your parallel between the biblical scribes and modern bureaucracies hits the nail on the…
Quantum of sorrow appropriate title Just thinking of the trauma those Altar boys r going through
The term ‘Laity’ (Greek word) that means the common man, devoid of knowledge or power, still holds good today in…