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Security through Illusions

What a strange week it has been. I returned home from our Easter service to find that while we were celebrating Christ’s victory over death, the president was threatening war crimes on the coming Tuesday, and telling Iran to “Open the F*****’ Strait, you crazy b*******, or you’ll be living in Hell — JUST WATCH!” Then…

Breathe in. Breathe out.

Take a moment. Breathe in. Breathe out. Today is a big day. It’s Good Friday, and Jesus will die. That’s the story we remember and we relive each year as we seek to sync our life to the life of Christ. We journey from the anticipation of Advent to the arrival of Christmas, from the…

Peace

On Monday, Dr. Vivian Balakrishnan (Singapore’s minister for foreign affairs) was interviewed by Reuters about the impact of the Iran war on Singapore and economics. Within that interview, he offered the following historical perspective framed around the concept of a “Pax Americana”: “For 80 years, the US was the underwriter for a system of globalisation…