A first-person encounter with Pete Souza, former chief White House photographer
“Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law. For if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be...
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Snippets of his medical mission services with PMSNC – 2017-2018 Part I of II Series The only way death is not meaningless is to see yourself as part of something greater: a family, a community, a...
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Part II of II Series “Betterment is perpetual labor. The world is chaotic, disorganized, and vexing, and medicine is nowhere spared that reality. To complicate matters, we in medicine are also only...
View ArticleWhat do you do with the mad that you feel?
“Righteous anger is usually not about oneself. It is about those whom one sees being harmed and whom one wants to help,” said Archbishop Desmond Tutu, “in short, righteous anger is a tool of justice,...
View ArticleMothers and daughters: Cynthia Bonta’s legacy is Lisa Bonta Sumii and Malaya...
“When you are your whole self/ intact with body, mind and soul/The divine spirit of work flows through your being/Just close your eyes and listen in deep silence/And you shall hear an inner...
View ArticleWomen authors: Writing is the intersectional expression of their...
Part I of II “I think writing somehow reduces natural selfishness. That we can do without many things – do not have to own what we enjoy—is quite liberating. It allows us to share more, to be...
View ArticleWomen authors: Writing is the intersectional expression of their...
(Continued from last week, Part II of II) “Not till many years later would I meet again, one evening in San Francisco, my Stanford professor Wallace Stegner. The Wheatland Foundation had organized...
View ArticleRev. Fr. Rodel Balagtas: ‘There are no exceptions to holiness’
“Moses learned that God makes no exceptions for holiness. When God sets forth a requirement of His people, He most certainly demands it of the leaders. God wanted to make Moses’ life a highway of...
View ArticleBoni Alvarez: A Filipino-American playwright’s insights on culture, identity...
“Who are you? Who am I? You are the truth teller. When you die to your old self, you enter into a new realm, physically feel your body, the drama of its fall, the healing of past traumas, including...
View ArticleDr. Marlene Cordero: Engaging humanity with her brand of empathy
“Religion begins in the sensation that your life makes sense within a larger one, that you and the animals have a bond, that the trees and rocks and rivers are to the body of the world as your bones...
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