Crossing

The imagery of slavery is just like arsenic, each dosage hits you harder each time you take it,” William Wilberforce, slave abolitionist, said to his friend William Pitt in the film “Amazing Grace”.
Dear friends,
                     I am raising to you the issue which is like arsenic to me- the slavery of North Koreans under a ruthless regime. [...]

A Dark Night

My reading of the Bible on this fateful night.
Psalm 12
The Faithful Have Vanished
Save, O Lord, for the godly one is gone;
for the faithful have vanished from among the children of man.
Everyone utters lies to his neighbour
with flattering lips and a double heart they speak.
May the Lord cut off all flattering lips
the tongue that makes great [...]

Mere Paper Votes Without God

There are many things which I am not satisfied about my country, especially its government. Corruptive practices have made this land filthy, and its people, especially the poor, suffer. Leaders used taxpayers’ money to build obscenely huge mansions of their own, travel abroad and buy fancy cars. 
People are divided, not only between the East and the West but [...]

Death-mocracy

The year ended with a bang, literally, on someone’s head. Extremists and tyrants seemed to have done it again, and got away with it too. The latest victim was Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan’s illustrious opposition voice.
Which is an irony, as Pakistan is supposed to be democratic country. Yet, one can get herself killed simply by sitting [...]

We all need to know

“When the prisoner first arrives at the interrogation center, he is deprived of his clothes, watch and spectacles. He is issued with prison clothing, consisting of a t-shirt or singlet and ill-fitting trousers without a belt, so that in all times, he is left in the humiliating position of having to hold them up.
Throughout the [...]

Fear not this Christmas

As Christmas draws near, a reading of Isaiah 7-9 is especially powerful in reminding us what hope in God is about. The Book of Isaiah, I admit, is a highly sophisticated read, but at the same time, it is astoundingly clear in prophesying the coming of Jesus Christ. 
“Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a [...]

That is not the question

A pastor met his fellow colleague from Myanmar at a conference for church leaders recently, and decided to ask the latter about the peaceful demonstrations there.
“Of course, the church must have nothing to do with this. The Junta has informed me about it, and I have assured him that Myanmar Christians will not partake in [...]

A Final Plea

Dear you, my rapist
Were you once ravaged
and now you must avenge for your past sufferings and pain?
Were you once tormented
the way you are tormenting me now?
Did you once tried pleading to be let go
And hoped that the nightmare would be over?
Did you once wished you were clean like before?
Dear you, my rapist
Were you breaking me [...]

Lord Have Mercy.

People around the world have called these people stupid and crazy for going into a “God-forsaken country” to give medical and humanitarian aid to its people. But, that’s the way it should be, isn’t it?
To plant the flag poles of Christ in hostile places. To love the people no matter what ethnicity and religion.
And [...]

Liberty In North Korea.

The people of Korea, both North and South; have a profound identification with sufferings, which is known as ‘Han’. There is no English equivalent to this word that can explain its full magnitude. It is grudge, hatred, lamentation, regret, grief, pathos, self-pity, fate, mortification and certainly much more. ‘Han’ can only be grasped experentially.
But, ‘Han’ [...]