The Gospel about being light says only one thing every Christian: Go and shine in the world! And there is the silent question there: How? How are we supposed to shine? Here is the answer: Shine through your good works! Shine through your good actions! Shine through your good deeds! Then comes the caveat: Do not shine for yourself. Shine that God may be glorified through your good works. That’s it! Continue reading #SV – The Logic of Light
A sign of contradiction! Isn’t that what we all are? Sometimes we are agents of good, at other times the agents of evil! We rise and we fall! We build and we destroy! We succeed and we fail! Well, in the case of Jesus, the message is that embracing Jesus and His words is to embrace life, love, joy, peace, resurrection and hope, while to reject Jesus is to abandon oneself to the forces of darkness, unforgiveness, unloved, strife and despair. Jesus is everything! Continue reading #SV – Behold, this Child!
Early this month, a group of friends gathered for lunch in the quiet village of Boxberg, somewhere in Germany. As the conversation progressed, one of them narrated the story of a small community in Germany that had three graveyards (Friedhöfe): the first is for the Catholics, the second is for the Evangelische Kirche (Lutherans) and the third is for everyone. Interestingly, the first two are quite populated with beautifully maintained graves/gravestones, but the general or common graveyard has, after 10 years of its establishment, only two graves. Why? Why did the community even come to the resolution to set up … Continue reading The Three Graveyards
To add a few lines: Availability is equally an act of respect – respect to the one who requires you to be available for others, God in this case. It is also an act of respect to others whom you are to serve. When people are gifted, it is not meant to service their pride and ego, which is often the case. Since the talents and competences which form the basis of our availability for service towards others should not make us bloated in pride and self-adulation, then it means that availability is an attitude of humility. It invites us … Continue reading #SV – Availability
It is exactly 50 years since the end of the Nigerian-Biafran War (1967-1970). The war ended on Thursday, 15 January 1970. It was a terrible war, the effect of which has continued to reverberate in Nigeria today. Part of the tragedy of the war is the inter-generational trauma that it has created. Secessionist movements like MASSOB and IPOB, are instances of the effect of this trauma. But the trauma is not sustained by a mere fantasy to ‘recreate’ Biafra, rather it is fanned by the continued perception of marginalization of the former Eastern Region as well as the absence of … Continue reading 50 Years: Biafra, Nigeria and WCC Diplomacy
Alongside One Another 