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Lino Cayetano: A Son’s Healing Love Language 4 min read

Lino Cayetano: A Son’s Healing Love Language

How I met Lino Cayetano… well it’s just a brief encounter… Sometime in 2003, I had the privilege of interviewing Lino Cayetano, the youngest of... Read More

Mothers Are Their Children’s Safe Space 5 min read

Mothers Are Their Children’s Safe Space

Recently, there have been online debates on how to discipline children. Some say a little spanking is fine to deter aggressive behavior in children—in other... Read More

3 Spiritual Habits When Asking God for Graces and Miracles 5 min read

3 Spiritual Habits When Asking God for Graces and Miracles

If You’re Praying for a Miracle, Don’t Skip These 3 Things In times of distress, hopelessness, grief, loss, or confusion, we turn to God—our only... Read More

The “Violence” Children Play 10 min read

The “Violence” Children Play

Extensive use of technology, social media, violent games are said to factor in the growing violence among minors. However, there are overlooked factors or should... Read More

Dress Code for a Criminal Mind 6 min read

Dress Code for a Criminal Mind

It was April, and amid the humid weather, law enforcers were also in hot pursuit of so-called violators of the “Safer Cities” program. Thousands of... Read More

Toym Imao and a History Uninterrupted 6 min read

Toym Imao and a History Uninterrupted

This is the unedited article I wrote for a UK-based magazine in 2021, but it never saw print after the publication folded. I have long... Read More

Movie Review: Michael (2026) 7 min read

Movie Review: Michael (2026)

Michael (2026), directed by Antoine Fuqua and written by John Logan, traces Michael Jackson’s life from his Jackson 5 years in the 1960s to the... Read More

Lifting Your Prayer Intentions to God: A List of Churches and Sites for Prayer Requests 7 min read

Lifting Your Prayer Intentions to God: A List of Churches and Sites for Prayer Requests

Our need for prayer is constant, much like the air we breathe, the water that quenches our thirst, and the knowledge that clears our ignorance.... Read More

Movie Review: Melania (2026) 5 min read

Movie Review: Melania (2026)

Melania is a 2026 American film by Brett Ratner that follows Melania Trump (nee Knauss) in the 20 days before Donald Trump’s second presidential inauguration,... Read More

Movie Review: Hope Gap (2019) 11 min read

Movie Review: Hope Gap (2019)

Hope Gap is a 2019 British drama film written and directed by William Nicholson, adapted from his 1999 play The Retreat from Moscow. Married couple... Read More