He has shown all you people what is good.
And what does the LORD require of you?
To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly before your God.
- Micah 6:8And what does the LORD require of you?
To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly before your God.
Archive | May, 2010
Those days
Posted on 30 May 2010 by TK Tan
These days I hear a lot about “those days”. Mostly because of the frequent advertisements on Astro featuring Santokh Singh and Soh Chin Aun. Seeing these two bring back memories of a time long past when these characters dominated the national football landscape. In the ad Santokh Singh said:
“Those…
Are We Blinded by Prejudice?
Posted on 30 May 2010 by Rama Ramanathan
“Prejudice blinds people. It makes us blame the very people from whom we need to learn the lessons we desperately need to learn. We are not ashamed of importing ethnic nationalism from Germany or Communism from China. We borrow expertise to help us plan projects from sanitation to satellites. But…
Luke 6:31
Posted on 30 May 2010 by Peter Young
“Here is a simple rule of thumb for behaviour: Ask yourself what you want people to do for you; then grab the initiative and do it for them!” (Luke 6:31, The Message)
A modern translation of the golden rule: “Do to others as you would have them do to you”.…
Hatred: Hated and Hating
Posted on 30 May 2010 by Peter Young
A comment in our blog on May 19, 2010, from a contributor who has, ‘come to hate West Malaysian political activists with an intense passion’, has caused me to reflect upon my own understanding of this subject. I am confining my reflections to just two aspects of this vast topic:…
Issues of Privilege: a reader’s response
Posted on 25 May 2010 by Catalina Rembuyan
Dear Micah Mandate,
I am writing this to you in response to both Mr. Goh Keat Peng’s article “We do not take such money” and Rama Ramachandran’s “Of two minds regarding the Sibu by-elections”.
I wish to make this clear. I was not upset at Mr. Goh, Rama, or my…
The court of the Sheriff of Nottingham
Posted on 24 May 2010 by TK Tan
I woke up on Friday to headlines in The Sun blazing “Low-cost flats for the rich” and a dramatic and provocative lead-in paragraph:
SHE is chauffeur-driven in an official four-wheel drive on duties and states her address in official documents as a double-storey corner terrace house in Kota Damansara. But…
Naked in the Public Square
Posted on 24 May 2010 by Rama Ramanathan
“Mr Singhal, Mr Kesri and Mr Yadav deserve to be thanked for removing the ‘fig leaves’ from our politics,” wrote Dr Vishal Mangalwadi in his 1997 book India: The Grand Experiment.
Fig leaves, for Christians, signifies the hiding of shame and nakedness. Fig leaves bring our minds back to the…
Betrayed Voters
Posted on 23 May 2010 by Peter Young
As on Tuesday 20 May 2010, PKR has lost 5 MPs and 4 state assemblymen since the 2008 general election. It is possible that there will be more losses in the days ahead.
The PKR election director, Fuziah Salleh, noted that people joined PAS and DAP with clear objectives but…
Psalm 136: 1-3
Posted on 23 May 2010 by Peter Young
Thank God! He deserves your thanks. His love never quits.
Thank the God of all gods,
His love never quits.
Thank the Lord of all lords.
His love never quits. (Psalm 136: 1-3, The Message)
We are given two reasons as to why we should thank God. Firstly, because he…
Locating the Demos in Democracy
Posted on 22 May 2010 by Tricia Yeoh
Local government elections were abolished by the Malaysian federal government in 1976 despite suggestions to the contrary by the body set up to study them. Thirty-five years later, the State governments of Penang and Selangor are asking for federal support in reintroducing them. If local councillors were elected instead of…
Two aspects of the Sibu By-elections
Posted on 20 May 2010 by Rama Ramanathan
Najib’s Sibu Dream
Monday 17th May was a difficult day of soul-searching for me. The Prime Minister (PM) of my country has been blatantly vote-buying, AND 18,447 of my fellow citizens seem to approve of the PM and his party. On Sunday, 18,447 voters in Sibu, Sarawak voted for the…
Sermon In The Hacienda
Posted on 17 May 2010 by Steven Sim
“Mandate” is a powerful word, but it is also a popular word today. My best friend Joshua, who is reading theology at Trinity Theological College told me once that a mega-church in Singapore is “hot on cultural mandate”. And one of its pastors, when asked what did the church mean…
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