Anyone who knows me understands my unabashed transfixation with the art of storytelling. From books to art to cinema, I find people’s various expressions of life to be a tender message of from a heart. For a good story to be told, there is obviously more than just a few simple components. Large words and…

Something interesting I once thought about was that fear is an incentive; a prerogative for the daring. Without it, we aren’t driven by an alternative–a future crippled by our inhibition to act. In this vein of thought I began to see fear as a good thing, an unusual mannerism of our humanity which offers us…

Today, I felt confronted by the pangs of ill timed and cringingly insensitive loved ones. I had forgotten how intoxicating the silence felt in a car full of sympathetic people who don’t know what to say. Grief is one of the few situations in life where it is no less uncomfortable to say anything or…

Let me paint a different picture from what many of my colleagues, contemporaries, and even elders are saying. Tradition is not a sin.There is nowhere in the Bible nor near equivalent source of knowledge that points to anything otherwise being true. The lure of the present generation is reform–to make new, to adapt, and to…

I have been thinking a lot about myself recently. What causes me to sin. What wrong things am I believing which continually drive a wedge between myself and God and why do I keep on doing them when I know they are wrong? Although there are many complications we can bring to this question, the…