Justiceable lives

Jason A. Baguia 07/22/2016

In an alternate universe, Pampanga Rep. Gloria Arroyo, former Philippine president, would have sealed her place in history by fulfilling her promise not to seek reelection in 2004 when she served out the remainder of the overthrown…

Discourse of peace

Jason A. Baguia 07/15/2016

Media reports in light of the ruling, based on the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea that upheld the Philippine case against China over territory in the West Philippine or South China Sea constitutes…

Calming the waters

Jason A. Baguia 07/08/2016

If your family raised you the way mine did me, for sure you have childhood memories of visiting with them Cebu’s Taoist temple. You remember the mostly red pagoda rising amid the greenery on a hill in…

Real world

Jason A. Baguia 07/01/2016

From a distance, courtesy of Facebook, I witnessed your graduation amid the soccer field, or what used to be one when I was an undergraduate student like you were. The bluegrass, I imagine, must have been turning…

Breaking of nations

Jason A. Baguia 06/24/2016

I sit on a wooden chair in a hotel along Sokolovska Street in the city of Prague, Czech Republic where I am on a working trip. The world has just awakened to news that the majority in…

Our word, our world

Jason A. Baguia 06/17/2016

As the Maker spoke amid the chaos, creation sprang forth into being. He spoke light on the first day, and other creatures in the succeeding days. When the time came, He announced that He would make man,…

The president, the press and auto-correct

Jason A. Baguia 06/10/2016

An oversized book at the office of the global news agency Reuters in the United States capital Washington, DC contains the names of journalists from around the world who were killed in the line of duty. I…

Compassion or fatigue

Jason A. Baguia 06/03/2016

Having voted last May 9, 2016 at the Philippine embassy in Berlin, I strolled through the German capital’s west, stopping shortly past noon at the Kaiser-Wilhelm Memorial Church. Curiosity about its broken spire ushered me into the…

Graces for church and state

Jason A. Baguia 05/27/2016

Flowering of Thought First, Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte cursed Pope Francis over the traffic jams that attended the Catholic Church leader’s apostolic visit to the Philippines in 2015. Next, the mayor’s camp made public a conciliatory…

Hangman State?

Jason A. Baguia 05/20/2016

Peccatorial elitism feeds the intransigent, periodically resurgent support for restoring capital punishment in predominantly Christian Philippines. We stratify sinners, conveniently counting ourselves among the better offenders who may repeatedly excuse ourselves. The gallows for everyone else! Never…

PH vote in the time of Web 3.0

Jason A. Baguia 05/06/2016

The 2016 Philippine election period, the first ever in the age of Web 3.0, when, among other things, social media has come of age, has showcased Filipinos’ dire need of learning media literacy, which professors Belinda Espiritu,…

Postscript to a Pacquiao-prompted row

Jason A. Baguia 02/27/2016

Glimmers from Patmos In 1976, the Catholic Church released a reflection encouraging the full participation of persons with same-sex attraction in the life of faith. In 1980, the Church launched Courage, an international outreach ministry for persons…

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