Inspirational Stories, spiced with Humour
How famous Galilee is today! From Galilee came Jesus, who changed the world and changed our lives. But what did the scribes and Pharisees think of Galilee? In John 7: 52, they said with disdain about Jesus, ‘Search, and look: for out of Galilee ariseth no prophet.’ That’s it. They…
As a rule I don’t look at horoscopes, but found one literally jumping onto my face, saying that my star sign, which is Scorpio, doesn’t allow me to forgive easily. “Aha!” I said. Because something I find very hard to do on my own is to forgive. I try but…
There are two acts of surrender I’m going to portray below: By the summer of 1945, the defeat of Japan was a foregone conclusion. And on July 16, a new option became available to the Allies when the United States secretly detonated the world’s first atomic bomb in the New…
“Blessed are the peacemakers, because they will be called sons of God” (Matt. 5:9). A scene I remember from my school days was two classmates in a brawl, oftimes quite bloody, with cuts and bruises, the effect of punches and kicks. And then would arrive the ‘peacemaker,’ or maybe a…
As India gets devastated with floods leading to landslides, I realized how quickly the ground we thought was solid under us, can get washed away. We build fortunes and bank balances to fortify ourselves but finally we can never cheat death. A prominent Delhi Banker was just about to sign…
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.
