Dear beloved friends in the LGBTIQ+ community, We, as followers of Jesus Christ, want to express our love, respect, and compassion for you. We recognize that your journey has not been easy and that you have faced many challenges and struggles along the way. But we want you to know that we stand with you, […]
Category: Essays
One Year Now in Europe
It was supposed to be a short and temporary exile, as I still feel it to be until now. Circumstances and worsening situations for human rights defenders in the Philippines, however, made it to extend my tourist status until I got a residency visa for a period of another one year until I realized that I am already here for a year today. Happy or sad? Not exactly. The feeling is ambiguous but surely thankful.
On Justice
Posting here a shared thought on JUSTICE by FRYA written in August 2019. What is justice? It is a word that has a noticeable weight in society. It is something that governments and other social structures strive to achieve, a concept to build their systems around. It is a word that protesters like to throw […]
Pastoring the Flock, Pastoring the Pastors
A short essay written and submitted in the year 2009 when I intended to be part of the list of candidates for the Episcopate to the National Search Committee. Introduction: Pastoring the flock is a very vital task in the Church but is mostly unattended to by our pastors, as our experience tells us. The […]
The Theology of Struggle. 