Tear Your Clothes..!
Tear your clothes today — not in anger, not in fashion, but in shame. Yes, tear them, because what we see unfolding around us is not persecution from outside the Church, but corruption within it. I am not speaking now about the “Guruji” of Delhi who violated the sanctity of…
Be Still, Knowing…!
There are days when my fingers hover over the keyboard, the screen stares back blankly, and I tell myself, “Be still.” But I smile even as I say it, because I know “stillness” isn’t about sitting motionless like a marble statue in a yoga class that’s run out of music….
A Wet, Marked, Used Bible..!
This morning, while sitting in my little garden, I opened my Bible for my usual quiet time. The birds were chirping, the breeze was gentle, and everything looked perfect for meditation — until a few mischievous drops of rain were blown onto my open pages. I jumped up, hastily closing…
Prayer Power or Perturbed Pacing..!
Ever stood outside an ICU? If you have, you’ll know the scene. A husband walking up and down like a tiger in a cage, muttering under his breath. A mother wringing her hands, glancing at the closed doors every second. A son staring at his phone but not really seeing…
You’ll Never Run Out of Pebbles..!
For the last one month or so, I’ve watched my daughter’s little one tug at my sleeve with one simple request: “Grandpa, David and Goliath!” No, she wasn’t asking me to take her to Jerusalem to stand in some museum. She wanted me to play the video—again and again—on my…
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.