A SOJOURNER’S VIEW: In God’s Own Time
CEBU CITY (MindaNews / 17 December) -- As we approach the end of the Advent season and...
INTEGRAL ECOLOGY: Some Theological-Pastoral Interventions at MSPC XVII
Last of five parts
(This is the last of five parts of the presentation...
NOMAD VERSES: Leaving
The panes frozeas I turnedfor a last glimpseof wasted blissand caged pain.In the gathering duskthat held a...
THINK TALK: Second Reply to ‘Letter to Santa Claus’
MATALAM, North Cotabato (MindaNews / 14 December) – Christmas time is just the best time to talk...
WAYWARD AND FANCIFUL: Diwata in pain
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 12 December) — At breakfast the other Saturday, I opened my email to...
TAUSUG IN DOHA: Basketball strengthens bonds of OFWs
DOHA, Qatar (MindaNews / 11 December) -- It is not surprising to see basketball courts everywhere in...
THOUGHTS TO LIVE BY: Third Sunday of Advent
Dec. 11, 3rd Sunday of Advent:Liturgy of the Word --
Is. 35:1-6, 10;Ps. 146:6-7,...
THINK TALK: First Reply to ‘Letter to Santa Claus’
MATALAM, North Cotabato (MindaNews / 6 December) – Before you may think...
INTEGRAL ECOLOGY: Some Best Ecological Practices of Mindanao Dioceses
Part 4
(This is the fourth part of the presentation of Fr. Reynaldo D....
TODAY’S THOUGHTS TO LIVE BY: Second Sunday of Advent
Dec. 4, 2nd Sunday of AdventLiturgy of the Word --Is. 11:1-10;Ps. 72:1-2, 7-8, 12-13, 17;Rom. 15:4-9;Mt. 3:1-12.
FASTLANES: Adios Maning Ravanera
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews / 03 December) -- When a loved one dies, we reminisce. We remember the...
THINK TALK: Letter to Santa Claus
MATALAM, North Cotabato (Mindanews / 01 December) – This Yuletide season Santa Claus is very much alive,...
PASSION FOR MISSION: A quiet Monday at the elementary school of Kangko
MALITA, Davao Occidental (MindaNews / 30 November) -- Wilma Garcia and I trekked to Kangko for a...
INTEGRAL ECOLOGY: The Best Ecological Practices in Mindanao Dioceses
Part 3
(This is the third part of the presentation of Fr. Reynaldo D....
PEACETALK: Peace is in our hands, Peace is in God’s hand
(Keynote address of Fr. Joel Tabora, SJ, at the opening of the Mindanao Week of Peace 2022...
TURNING POINT: A Friend to All is a Friend to No One
NAAWAN, Misamis Oriental (MindaNews / 29 Nov) – The efficacy of the foreign policy stance of “a...
BANGSAMORO SPEAKS: Life Ends After Dark?
I missed Cotabato City where we partly spent many years of our youth. We missed the circle...
MARGINALIA: Beyond the Exoteric Beauty of ‘Panolong’
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews / 27 Nov) -- Whenever I see a Facebook post on the inauguration of...
THOUGHTS TO LIVE BY: First Sunday of Advent
PART I : Some Notes on the Season of Advent –
1. When the...
Justice for my father, Justice for the 58th massacre victim
How do we kill the broken? Shoot down their fighting spirit. Leave nothing but regret of not being able...
SOMEONE ELSE’S WINDOWS: Who is Senator Migz Zubiri fooling?
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews / 22 November) — In a press release Monday (Nov. 21), Senate President Juan...
INTEGRAL ECOLOGY: Some Ecological Voices in the MSPC Proceedings from 1971 to 2017
Part 2
(This is the second part of the presentation of Fr. Reynaldo D....
TAUSUG IN DOHA: I Thank you, O Qatar!
You are like rain that Allah sends to gently bathe the landQuenched, droughty...
THINK TALK: Helping is an Obligation Profoundly Enshrined in Islam ...
MATALAM, North Cotabato (MindaNews / 15 Nov) – Almighty Allah created us in a way that we...
INTEGRAL ECOLOGY: The Present Ecological Realities of Mindanao (1)
(This series is from the presentation of Fr. Reynaldo D. Raluto on“Integral Ecology Ministry in Mindanao Context”...
TURNING POINT: Food Insecurity
NAAWAN, Misamis Oriental (MindaNews / 13 November) -- With the fading virulence of the COVID-19 and the...
SPEECH: The antidote to war is good governance
(Vice President Sara Duterte’s keynote address at the Kusog Mindanaw conference at the Waterfront Insular Hotel in Davao City on 11 November...
PEACETALK: The State of CSOs in Mindanao
(Delivered at the Kusog Mindanaw Conference 2022 at the Waterfront Insular Hotel on 11 November 2022)
OUR MARAWI: The proposed ‘New Marawi’ remains a pie in the sky
MARAWI CITY (MindaNews / 09 November 2022) -- Passing by Ground Zero this morning, this sight of...
A SOJOURNER’S VIEW: MSPC – The Original Synodality in Praxis
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 9 Nov) – Long before there was Synodality, there was the Mindanao-Sulu Pastoral...
THINK TALK: Graft Court Clears Senior MinDA Official
MATALAM, North Cotabato (MindaNews / 2 November) – The Sandiganbayan Sixth Division acquitted of graft charges Charlita...
THOUGHTS FROM SOLITUDE: For whom do we celebrate this feast today?
(MindaNews / 1 November) – A blessed Feast of All Saints to all!
For...
URBAN APE: Typhoon Paeng and the Cotabato Flood Plain
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 1 November) – Typhoon...
TURNING POINT: A Waterworld in the Making
NAAWAN, Misamis Oriental (MindaNews / 31 October) – Last week was probably the first time that the...
THINK TALK: Bangsamoro Inventor Gets Nod of the Intellectual Property Office
MATALAM, North Cotabato (MindaNews / 27 October) — The Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOP) has...
SOMEONE ELSE’S WINDOWS: Animals have feelings
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews / 26 October) — I thought of writing this piece after watching a video...
TURNING POINT: Corrections
NAAWAN, Misamis Oriental (MindaNews / 26 Oct) – How could a maximum...
SOMEONE ELSE’S WINDOWS: Disease as cure: A comedy called ‘New Society’
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews / 25 Oct) – Any vision of a social order resides in the realm...
REMEMBERING: Rest in peace Datu Quiambao
Niadtong pito (7) pa ang akong panuigon, kanunay ko syang makit-an sa kasikbit namong umahan nga nag...
THINK TALK: Incompleteness
MATALAM, North Cotabato (MindaNews / 21 October) — I always tell my students in graduate school: “It’s...
NOMAD VERSES: I am
Come sit aroundthe fire with me.No, I won’t tell youof my travels and travails.My story is not...
MINDANAO ART 2022: Aligned. Interconnected
Aligned. Interconnected. Stella A. Estremera's poem explains the theme of Mindanao Art 2022, the fourth since 2019. This year's venue...
ECOSPEAK: Not at the expense of the people and marine life in Davao Gulf
(Delivered at the Sangguniang Panlungsod of Davao City on Tuesday, 11 October 2022 by Mylai Santos, on behalf of the Sustainable Davao...
WAYWARD AND FANCIFUL: Postscript to the Soldiers of Marawi
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 12 Oct) – The title of my article on the book Transfiguring Mindanao:...
TURNING POINT: First 100 Days: The State of the Nation is Sound
NAAWAN, Misamis Oriental (MindaNews / 12 Oct) – The press and concerned citizens are agog over the...
ANGAY-ANGAY LANG: Eighty years old na ako (4)
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews / 12 October) –
The rock that grew into an island
THINK TALK: Do you wonder why you were different and not perfect?
MATALAM, North Cotabato (MindaNews / 11 Oct) – Did you ever feel you are a misfit because...
ANGAY-ANGAY LANG: Eighty years old na ako (3)
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews / 11 October) – Between me and Upi I think change in me proceeded...
ANGAY-ANGAY LANG: Eighty years old na ako (2)
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews / 10 October) – As far as I can recall and from what I have...
ANGAY-ANGAY LANG: Eighty years old na ako (1)
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews / 09 October) – Ipinanganak ako noon October 7, 1942. Eighty years old na...