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St. Augustine

Posted in Apologetics Christian, Baptist, Christian Anti-Defamation, Christology, Church History, Church Planting, Holiness, Integrity, Poetry, St. Augustine, Theology, Thoughts, Wesley Jacob, tagged on SatUTC2009-03-14T22:11:06+00:00 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

What is this which gleams through me?
And smites my heart without wounding it?
I am both a-shudder and aglow.
A-shudder, in so far as I am unlike it,
Aglow in so far as I am like it.
- St Augustine (354 –430 AD)

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When Christian Truth meets Post-Christian America – Part III

Posted in America, Apologetics Christian, Christian Anti-Defamation, Hypocrisy, Integrity, Politics, Post-Christian America, Religion, The Cross, Theology, Wesley Jacob, tagged , , , on FriUTC2008-12-12T01:09:12+00:00 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

We must understand that, in the Christian worldview, culture is important, but never ultimate. Beyond this, we acknowledge that God is sovereign, and His providence rules over all.
The mission of the Church in the midst of this cultural crisis is to proclaim the truth and reach out to the casualties. In the face of rampant [...]

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When Christian Truth meets Post-Christian America – Part I

Posted in Academic, America, Apologetics Christian, Christology, Devotional, Faith, Hypocrisy, Integrity, Philosophy, Politics, Post-Christian America, Wesley Jacob, tagged , , , on FriUTC2008-12-12T00:01:44+00:00 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

A significant culture-shift has taken place around America. The essential contours of American culture has been radically altered. The so-called Judeo-Christian consensus of the last millennium has given way to a post-modern, post-Christian, post-Western cultural crisis which threatens the very heart of American culture.
Reflecting on the changes experienced by America over just the last half-century, [...]

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The Hypocrisy of Indian Politics – It’s all sauda

Posted in Academic, Advaita Vedanta, America, Christian Anti-Defamation, Economic Shift, Hypocrisy, Indian Politics, Integrity, McCain, Obama, Politics, Religion, US presidential election, Wesley Jacob, tagged on SunUTC2008-11-16T00:24:53+00:00 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Isn’t politics everywhere like this? Well, yes and no. Politicians everywhere are human beings who react to incentives, and they’re evidently in it for the power. If they only wanted to do good to humankind, they’d be social workers or businessmen – successful businessmen are successful because they serve the needs of people – or [...]

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The Hypocrisy of Indian Politics

Posted in Academic, Apologetics Christian, Christian Anti-Defamation, Indian Politics, Integrity, Life, Miscellaneous, Politics, Religion, tagged on ThuUTC2008-10-30T23:34:51+00:00 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Politicians can be so insipidly expected. Before the satellite TV revolution, there used to be a video newsmagazine called Newstrack. There is one scene from it that I still remember. If memory serves me right, it began with a shot of the bottom of Devi Lal’s sports shoes as he reclined on a chair, his [...]

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Our own sense of moral integrity

Posted in Integrity, Wesley Jacob on WedUTC2007-12-19T12:58:21+00:00 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

All of us who are concerned about the complete development and well-being of others, and about the future of the society and world in which we live, can do more than just lament the flaws in character formation that we see so commonly manifest these days. We can commit ourselves to seizing every possible opportunity [...]

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