Category: Articles
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COPING – The Art of Coping
Vera Nazarian, an American professional writer of Armenian- Russian origin had no easy life. At the tender age of eight, at the height of the Cold War, she fled from the former Soviet Union as a refugee with her parents with nothing else but a couple of suitcases. In one of her writings from ‘The…
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CHURCH – Lay Ministers
As a layperson voluntary involved in the life and mission of the Church, allow me to express my opinion on this issue. I ask the first question. In our present avant-garde culture which often tends to compromise on solid Christian values, in a scenario of social and moral decay, is the existing ecclesiastical set-up in right…
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ANXIETY – The Pounding Heart
Kim was withdrawn as a child. Her worst fear was reading aloud in class, to the point that teachers believed she was having a nervous breakdown. Even years later, when Kim took the podium to accept her Oscar for ‘LA Confidential’ she couldn’t find words to speak, even though she had practiced for days. We…
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ADVENT – Beyond The Glitter
Advent is a time of cheer and anticipation for most of us but especially for our kids and teens. But it can also turn into a time of frenzied shopping, decorating and entertaining. Our children can easily slip into the same behaviour and fail to realise the true spirit of Christmas. Christmas is a time…
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ADVENT – Rekindling The Spirit
Bing Crosby used to say that “unless we make our Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won’t make it white.” Our lives have become exhaustively secularized, choked by extreme consumption levels, maneuvered by the latest technological gadgets which seem to synchronize every moment of our existence. Yet, does this…
