Reprinted here, with permission from Bishop John Shelby Spong, is a Q & A from a recent edition of his newsletter in which he discusses the healthcare debate and calls for more honesty. His response to a reader’s question urges…
Dawn Morais
Communications Consultant/ Instructor/ Blogger/ Issue Advocate • Born in Kerala. Raised in Malaysia. Living in Hawaii.
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Malaysia: From Tun Abdul Razak to Najib Razak
1967 In a speech celebrating Malaysia’s 10th year of Merdeka (Independence), then Deputy PM Tun Abdul Razak declared: “We have drawn from the richness of our multi-racial cultural heritage and have built a Malaysian culture with an identity of its…
Reading Lolita in Tehran and Weiner in Washington D.C.
I finished Azar Nafisi’s wonderful memoir Reading Lolita in Tehran just as the story of Weiner’s online sexual antics broke. Nafisi’s memoir of resistance to tyranny through the liberating power of literature makes the point that one should not let…
Tagged with: Azar Nafisi, Bellow, John Ensign, John Profumo, Lolita in Tehran, Weiner
Posted in I BLOG, Politicians and their Lies, Politics and Religion, Readers of the Book, Sex and Politics, Survival, Transformation, Uncategorized
Posted in I BLOG, Politicians and their Lies, Politics and Religion, Readers of the Book, Sex and Politics, Survival, Transformation, Uncategorized
Of Gods and Men. . . and Jon Stewart
I watched Of Gods and Men the same week the news was filled with images of exultation at the killing of Osama bin Laden. The journey from Jon Stewart’s testosterone-driven treatment of bin Laden’s death on the Daily Show to…
Tagged with: Algeria, Daily Show, Gods and Men, Jon Stewart, Osama bin Laden
Posted in Catholics and Culture, Colonization, I BLOG, Movies, Muslims, Readers of the Book, Uncategorized
Posted in Catholics and Culture, Colonization, I BLOG, Movies, Muslims, Readers of the Book, Uncategorized
Malaysia and Readers of the Book
Largely Muslim Malaysia has been ill-served by the spectacle of bureaucrats in the Publications Control and Quranic Text Division of the Home Ministry defying the Prime Minister by withholding, then defacing, Bibles published in the Malay language (Bahasa Malaysia). March…
Tagged with: Al-Kitab, Christians, Malaysia, Muslims
Posted in Al-Kitab, I BLOG, Muslims, Prophet Muhammad, Readers of the Book, Uncategorized
Posted in Al-Kitab, I BLOG, Muslims, Prophet Muhammad, Readers of the Book, Uncategorized
Dawn Morais 