Inspirational Stories, spiced with Humour
It is Good Friday, and once again my mind wanders to that hill outside Jerusalem where three crosses stood like a grim exhibition of human judgement. On the middle cross hung Jesus, declared innocent by the very authority that sentenced Him. On either side were two thieves, properly labelled, properly…
They say there’s something different in the air every Good Friday. The sun dims a little more than usual, the birds go quieter than normal, and even the wind, that old gossip, hushes itself—perhaps remembering something it whispered about over two thousand years ago. Because on that first Good Friday,…
“Start with his right hand!” the Roman officer must have jeered to the soldier carrying nails to be driven through the hands and feet of Jesus, on a Good Friday two thousand years ago. And as the horrible sound of the nail, tearing flesh, rent the air, as the anguished…
Robert Clements is a newspaper columnist and writes a daily column, which has graced the pages of over 60 newspapers and magazines, from a daily column in the Khaleej Times, Dubai, the Morning Star, London, and in nearly every state in India, from The Statesman in Kolkata, to the Kashmir Times in Kashmir to the Trinity Mirror in Chennai.
