The ripples continue with a kind mention of the “People Like Us” Forum in a mainstream paper article entitled, Healing Malaysia under the column : Art of Healing By DR AMIR FARID ISAHAK. It’s a little funny because I was 2 of the events he mentioned and was in dialogue with one of the speakers…
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Ripples from “People Like Us” Part 5
Many thanks to Union of Catholic Asian News for making the Indonesian version of their article available. While there are some minor differences, there’s so much similarity between Bahasa Indonesia and Bahasa Malaysia that this translation can add on to the ripples and contribute to those who are reflecting on this in Bahasa Malaysia. 🙂…
Ripples from “People Like Us” Part 4
Last Thursday, I was surprised to get a call from Bangkok which resulted in the following piece from Union of Catholic Asian News. The experience of the interaction of the phone was very helpful for me personally to recall the experience of the “People Like Us” Forum, and to reflect on it deeper. The last…
Ripples from “People Like Us” Part 3
The ripples continue. It’s wonderful to read more reflections on the “People Like Us” Forum. One clarification for some who might be wondering whether this particular event is promoting Religious Pluralism, i.e. that All religions are actually talking about the same thing and there is essentially no difference in our beliefs. The answer from me…
Ripples from “People Life Us” – Interlude for Comments
(Above are the shoes and slippers of those who came for the “People like us” forum 🙂 ) There have been some interesting comment bubbles at Anil Netto’s blog which I thought would be worth reposting here for the benefit of all. Let me pick out some caught my attention. walski69 on June 17th, 2009…
Ripples from “People Like Us” Part 2
People Like Us 00: Warm Welcome from Catalyst on Vimeo. The hall filled up more after my welcome and introduction. The video clip above gives you a glimpse of the atmosphere and the agenda for the event. As I promised in an earlier post Ripples from “People Like Us” Part 1, I’d like to share…
Ripples from “People Like Us” Part 1
I’m glad the “People Like us” Open Forum on Friday, June 12, co-organized by Muslims Professionals Forum and Friends-in-Conversation went well. In fact, it was much better than I expected! 🙂 Marina Mahathir was kind enough to give the event extra publicity on her blog which generated some interesting comments. As I saw some of…
Farish Noor speaks on the Pas general assembly
I had a long 4 days in Seremban. So now I’m catching up on my blogging and watching :-). I wonder whether any of these themes will come out tomorrow during our Open Forum. (HT: Anil Netto)
God of the Moon and Stars – Kees Kraayenoord
Finally, I had the chance to share this song and video at our church Sunday Worship Gathering as part of the closing of my message based on John 3:1-17 on Trinity Sunday..
Pentecost Sunday: Holy Spirit Coming, Happy Birthday – The Church!
Blessed Pentecost Sunday. Happy Birthday, Church – The Body of Christ left behind until that final day! Happy Birthday – The Church! from Sivin Kit on Vimeo.