That little red envelope with gold Chinese characters is known by different names in different places: ang pao, ang pow, ang pae, tae ea, la...

Why would Jesus choose turning water into wine, in a wedding, as his first miracle?! I’ve struggled with that question for years, especi...

My parents' farms in our home province never grew on me. Not even with the happy memories of my growing up years with four siblings: we ...

Ever heard of the word kyok before? Most likely not. It is archaic and not found in any dictionary. Yet members of our clan say it all the ...

All the exhilarating essentials that make our clan look forward to our annual reunion was in place, except for one additional bonanza. Our 7...

I’ve waited for this number for some time. If only I could catch it, I wished, I’d take a screen shot.  Why ever not? It comes only once i...

Fake news abound today. What’s worse in our country is that the most notorious fake-news peddlers are columnists who occupy high positions i...

In the context of the New Year, I am writing about Christmas. Every December, the University of the Philippines (UP) campus in Diliman eru...

Why do people give gifts on Christmas? Many speculate that the three wise men who traveled hundreds of miles to pay Jesus homage with gift...

Over coffee, between the Sunday worship and Sunday school, our two pastors and I had some kind of a speculative discourse (some people call ...

This idiom means, “Stop doing or using something abruptly and completely.” It held true for my family on Christmas eve, last night. We sto...

(I was tasked to be the devotional speaker at our OMF Christian Writers' Fellowship [CWF] Christmas party last week. Some of those who f...

In making our Christmas gift list, many of us suddenly remember all the people we ignored (those whose eyes we never met; whose voices we ne...

Our family tradition of putting up a tree every Christmas has come to an end. It was a tradition I began when I Tony and I had our son #...

Day 2 of “Radiate: Young Writers’ Workshop” was held exactly a week after the first . By this time, the 22 participants had already writte...

As far back as February this year, this training/workshop—held recently, nine months later—was  already announced by Church Strengthening Mi...

Everything unusual and unexpected seemed to happen in those nine days last month, November 2017.   Earlier, classes were suspended almost ...

In Hebrew, Jedidiah means beloved of the Lord. It was the name given by God to baby Solomon. “She [Bathsheba] gave birth to a son, and the...