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Fr. Jerry Kurian is a priest, theological educator and public speaker with interests in blogging, social media, theatre, internet ethics, preaching, life skills and leadership training.

Monday, September 29, 2008

Hic..hic..excusheeeee meeee!!!

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I swirled from East to West, then stopped and thought Only to swirl again from North to South. I grinded my teeth and gripped the ground Uns...
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Saturday, September 27, 2008

India in 1977…Amar, Akbar, Anthony…Hindu, Muslim, Christian.

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Religion is under the scanner in India. The reason is that violence and terrorism are threatening the peaceful existence of people, and reli...
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Friday, September 26, 2008

Lord in your mercy.....hear our prayers

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To go to places people avoid To understand the struggles faced To mitigate the sufferings traced To ensure justice with proper haste We pray...
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Tuesday, September 23, 2008

The violence of the lambs

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I prayed for love and got hate instead Looking at me and egging me on to retaliate I wished for peace and got riots for it With the smell of...
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Saturday, September 20, 2008

Help, I'm old !!!

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Kerala finds itself staring at more than 3 million people who are above the age of 60. Many have been thrown out (either physically or by be...
Thursday, September 18, 2008

Aging into solitude

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How much I wished to know what it is again To breathe the fresh air and welcome the sun How much I longed to see and talk to them To call th...
Sunday, September 14, 2008

The dichotomy of smell

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The Orthodox Christian tradition believes in the use of the five senses for worship. Sight, smell, touch, hearing and tasting all come toget...
Saturday, September 13, 2008

The smell of destiny???

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They said I smelt Of the unwashed clothes and the dirty soil Of the unclean body and the feet oh shoddy They said I smelt Of my belligerent ...
Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Laughter is the best medicine???

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Stand up comedy in the West is quite popular and is also a platform for citizens to use humour as a way to publicize issues of public intere...
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Monday, September 8, 2008

The god of hope vs the god of the market

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Come Onam and it’s not only the colour and the celebration one notices but the over flowing of television sets and fridges and every applian...
Sunday, September 7, 2008

Onam, it’s Onam…

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Onam, it’s Onam in the land of Mahabali The land brought forth they say, by the axe of Parasuram Onam, it’s Onam in the land of Mahabali Kno...
Friday, September 5, 2008

In touch we trust!!!

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One of the eye catching pictures of Jesus that adorns many buildings and homes, is surprisingly not the one on the cross. It is one in which...
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Thursday, September 4, 2008

Touch me not

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All my life I wished to be touched Every time I saw someone I thought of their touch Time and time again every movement and moment became a ...
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Wednesday, September 3, 2008

For Mary’s sake!!!

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I was seventeen years old and the rebellious nature of teenage spilling over to the youth was evident in me. Church became a place where you...
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Tuesday, September 2, 2008

My (our) Mother's face

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Mother, it was your sacrifice that brought me here And yet through the stepping stones of my life I forgot this momentous truth of 'here...
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