Living with scammers
Recently, a seventy-year-old man stood sobbing outside a police station with a piece of paper that was worth nothing. It was a receipt for a parcel that did not exist, a scam that gulped...
Building mental toughness: A guide to resilience and success
Mental toughness is not a magical quality reserved for elite athletes or CEOs. It’s a skill that can be developed by anyone, regardless of their background or current situation. This article explores the science...
Positing electoral reforms
If this writer can rewrite election laws, here are what I would posit for fair elections in the future. We have an obsolete election law that was enacted by the defunct rubberstamp parliament and...
What Christ’s Transfiguration teaches us
THE spectacle of Christ’s Transfiguration (cfr. Lk 9,28b-36) teaches us, among other things, that we are meant for a supernatural life, that we need to develop the art of transcending the material and temporal...
High costs amid low wages
You see them everywhere—the fathers pushing battered pedicabs under the hot sun, the mothers calculating a supermarket bill with trembling hands, hoping the few coins left in her pocket will suffice. And yet, despite...
Always show charity with affection
AN anecdote I heard sometime ago taught me the lesson that charity should never be dry and cold, but rather warm, full of affection. It was about a nun who got sick and stayed...