Explore more Articles in
Essay
In celebration of the children of solitude
*Inspired by a piece written by Donald Hall in the New Yorker magazine titled “Between Solitude and Loneliness”
Some look at a tree and see a harvest of fruits. I once stared at a dead mabolo, in the middle of the night, and saw...
The talk
What am I doing wrong?
In a few weeks, I will be turning 51 and have been conversing with God nightly for almost as long. Nightly prayers are a habit drilled into me and my brother and sister by our grandparents; at first, were...
In excelsis deo
The election of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo as the new Speaker of the House proves that the Philippines is no longer in remission. She is on the last of her three consecutive terms as a member of the House of Representatives representing the second district...
The dialectic of violence: When blood stains our condiments
Red in the face. Not because of anger, but her own blood.
The 56-year-old woman in the photo-graph was one of roughly 300 NutriAsia supporters and workers who attended an ecumenical service around noon of July 30, Monday, within company grounds. NutriAsia is located...
Practical theory
Are we ladies protesting too much? The intention was good, but is it fair to damn the Angono police as leading women to somewhere infernal? How good is good advice if it comes unsolicited from men? Before answering, let’s hear what the men...
Much ado over media regulation
Media should not—ever—be regulated by government. That would defeat the democratic principle of a free and independent press, one of the best benchmarks for measuring the strength of a nation and its democracy.
All efforts to regulate the media will be met with a...
