It Shall Be Well..!
What powerful words, aren’t they? ‘It shall be well!’ Words we utter when full of hope and certainty. But imagine saying the same in the midst of despair and grief? Because these words were uttered as a mother looked at the body of her dead son, then looking up at…
Putting God and Ethics First..!
Whenever I’m called to speak at a Rotary meeting, I am fascinated by the Four Way Test, which Rotarians repeat together at the start. The Rotary Four-Way Test is a guiding principle for ethical decision-making, developed by Herbert J. Taylor in 1932. Here’s its story: Herbert J. Taylor, a prominent…
A Yea or a Nay..!
Lately, in my interaction with an editor of a magazine, while discussing a priest who was suddenly supporting the ideology of an extremist organisation, I remarked that many of our priests, pastors and nuns had reached a state when we had forgotten the teachings of Christ where a yea or…
Look Beyond the Bed..!
Let’s look today, beyond the bed! Two incidents come to my mind; the first, that of my friend’s father who was very sick. He had diabetes, a bad heart, and had once even collapsed on his doorstep, when my wife, a medical doctor, had been called to resuscitate him. After…
Bringing Them to the ‘Exchange’..!
Something I see very often is the ‘holier than thou’ attitude we possess. To some who are proud of this so-called righteousness and look down on others, Jesus said in Luke 18: 10-14: 10 Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. 11 The Pharisee stood by…
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.