Inspirational Stories, spiced with Humour
Imagine the scene: A dusty Jerusalem morning, the day after the crucifixion. The city, still buzzing from the spectacle of the execution, moves on. The Roman soldiers, having played their part, head back to their barracks with a few extra coins in their pockets. The Pharisees, smug in their victory,…
Easter gently nudges me to think about a robber entering paradise; a bandit, so wicked, only a death penalty could justify the magnitude of his crimes. And yet, that Easter day in heaven, a gasp must have gone up within the Pearly Gates as they saw this brigand, laughing and…
Even as I wake up to the sounds of, “Happy Easter!” and hear hymns by choristers singing, “Christ the Lord is risen today!” I still those happy voices and silently ask myself, “What if Jesus hadn’t risen two thousand years ago? What if Mary and his disciples had gone to…
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.
