2011: I decided that this was the year to bake and ice a Yule Log. I had watched my mother, the cake artist, do it many times but had never tried making one myself. For starters, I wasn’t sure that…
Dawn Morais
Communications Consultant/ Instructor/ Blogger/ Issue Advocate • Born in Kerala. Raised in Malaysia. Living in Hawaii.
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From Yule Log to Bûche de Noel
Tagged with: Catholic vote, Newt Gingrich, preferential option for the poor, President Obama, yule log
Posted in Catholic, Christian Politicians, I BLOG, Lay Catholics, Missal Changes, Uncategorized, US Bishops
Posted in Catholic, Christian Politicians, I BLOG, Lay Catholics, Missal Changes, Uncategorized, US Bishops
“Essential Cerebral Clout”–Where did it go?
It’s missing, said Irish Dominican Sr. Margaret MacCurtain, referring to the absence of intellectual rigor in the Vatican’s outlook on the world. But in speaking of the lack of “essential cerebral clout” she was really describing a condition just as…
Tagged with: Derrida, Sr. Margaret MacCurtain
Posted in Business and Justice, I BLOG, Politics and Religion, Religion and Political Discourse, Sports and Sexual Abuse, Uncategorized, Vatican
Posted in Business and Justice, I BLOG, Politics and Religion, Religion and Political Discourse, Sports and Sexual Abuse, Uncategorized, Vatican
Trading Technology for the Common Touch
When I look up, I meet the eyes Of the one who is before me: My child, my spouse, my neighbor, My client, my colleague, my friend. I read what is unsaid. I guess at what a frown Might signify.…
Tagged with: Droids, Hearing, iPad, iPhones, iPod, Seeing, smartphones
Posted in Communications, I BLOG, Listening, Seeing, Uncategorized
Posted in Communications, I BLOG, Listening, Seeing, Uncategorized
Solidarity Sunday in Honolulu
Last night in St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Honolulu, a small group gathered to say to our LGBT brothers and sisters that we believe that Christ does not discriminate. There is apparently no room in any of Hawaii’s Catholic churches…
I Killed Troy Davis.
I was thousands of miles away when the state of Georgia went ahead and executed Troy Davis . But distance cannot keep me from being implicated in his killing. I am implicated because I did not do enough to stop…
Tagged with: Death Penalty, Fifth Commandment, Troy Davis
Posted in Catholics and Culture, Consubstantial, Death Penalty, I BLOG, Missal Changes, Pro-Life, Uncategorized
Posted in Catholics and Culture, Consubstantial, Death Penalty, I BLOG, Missal Changes, Pro-Life, Uncategorized
Who do they say I am?
The conversation between Christ and his disciples described in the Gospel this past Sunday is a conversation worth having with those who raise us, nurture us, mentor us, befriend us and help us along our life journey. Because along with what…
The whispering of the Word
. . . the LORD was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake– but the LORD was not in the earthquake. After the earthquake there was fire– but the LORD was not in the fire. After…
Tagged with: Bishop Paul Tan, JAIS, Jesuit Refugee Service, Raid on Methodist Church
Posted in Christians in Malaysia, Freedom of Religion, I BLOG, Malaysia, Politics and Religion, Uncategorized
Posted in Christians in Malaysia, Freedom of Religion, I BLOG, Malaysia, Politics and Religion, Uncategorized
Happy Birthday, John Frederick Webster!
Let sense be numb, let flesh retire; Speak through the earthquake, wind, and fire, O still, small voice of calm! On this day, I celebrate my beloved husband’s Quaker roots: the sitting and waiting for the “still, small voice of…
Tagged with: Birthday Wishes, John Greenleaf Whittier, John Webster, Peace, Pennsylvania, Quakers
Posted in Faith, Family and Friends, Grace, I BLOG, Peace, Poetry, Quakers, Uncategorized
Posted in Faith, Family and Friends, Grace, I BLOG, Peace, Poetry, Quakers, Uncategorized
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…
Dawn Morais 