Lord Give Me Such Faith..!
I was seeing him after many years and for a moment I wondered if it was the same person. Time and illness had changed him. Years ago, when I had done some advertising work for his company, he was the head of the organisation. Confident and sharp minded. When he…
Don’t Associate With Them..!
A few years ago, I attended a function. The choir sang like angels, and the crowd applauded like fans at a cricket match. But suddenly I was shocked, because there, on stage, smiling like a movie star at a premiere, sat a bishop who had been removed from the church….
GPS and God..!
It’s funny, isn’t it? You slip into your car, punch in an address, and the voice of a polite young lady—or sometimes a very stern one—tells you exactly how to get there. “Turn right in 200 meters,” she says, and like a well-trained schoolboy, you obey. You don’t argue. You…
The Inside No One Sees..!
“Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men.” — Colossians 3:23 In this imaginative and motivational book I’m writing, Jesus the Businessman, there’s this moment where the Joseph and Son carpentry workshop runs out of cupboard polish. The apprentices—lads with…
A Bhangra ‘Abide With Me’..!
The other day I was humming “Abide With Me” under my breath—yes, just quietly, reverently, in my usual out-of-tune baritone—when someone at home (I won’t mention who, but she’s usually quite fond of my ‘music’) wrinkled her nose and said, “Could you not sing that? It sounds… mournful. Like you’re…
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.