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Fr. Lennon’s Coat of Arms

by Lennon Caranzo | March 10, 2025 | Random Thoughts | 0 Comments

In heraldry, a Coat of Arms represents an individual or a juridical entity. This tradition was especially prominent in medieval times when a Coat of Arms signified one’s family, allegiance, profession, or state of life—sometimes all at once. Today, only venerable...

The Third Season

by Lennon Caranzo | February 4, 2025 | Random Thoughts | 0 Comments

Tamang Usapan: Usapang may Tama (TUUMT) has been a long time in the making. It all began as casual conversations between two friends—something we've been doing since childhood—discussing anything and everything under the sun. Separated by sea and land, we eventually...

Anak ng EDSA

by Russel Padilla | November 28, 2024 | Politics | 0 Comments

Inatake nila at pilit na niyurakan ang kasaysayan at saysay ng nangyari sa EDSA noong 1986. ‘Di raw totoo, marami raw ang nauto. Bunga ito ng pag-usbong ng mga online channels at plataporma na nagpapakalat ng maling impormasyon at nagtatangkang baluktutin ang naratibo...

How to lose an election (or at least, not to win it)

by Lennon Caranzo | November 25, 2024 | Politics | 0 Comments

10 easy steps Have you been selected to run for office against your will? Or maybe you were running but were betrayed by your party mates who forced you to give way to their handpicked candidate so you want to stick it up to the bosses? Fear no more, here are ten easy...

Notes from the reliquary

by Russel Padilla | November 5, 2024 | Religion | 0 Comments

Relics, in their quiet presence, serve as markers of our shared faith journey. They remind us that faith, though it may dim, can be reignited. The relics I once pursued are now relics of my past, yet they remain beacons of continuity—a reminder that, even in seasons...

Defining human through the non-human: an anthropology through the lens of J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis

by Lennon Caranzo | November 3, 2024 | Literature, Philosophy | 0 Comments

Last year, after reading Chesterton and Tolkien as Theologians by Alison Milbank (Bloomsbury, 2009; I read the Spanish translation titled La teología de Chesterton y Tolkien, Granada: Editorial Nuevo Inicio, 2022), I fell into the rabbit hole of devouring every Lord...

Being Left Alone Gliding

by Russel Padilla | September 25, 2024 | Philosophy, Random Thoughts | 0 Comments

The Phenomenology of the Betrayed People hates betrayal. Yet, it is no strange phenomenon among individuals. Every person experiences betrayal: either as the betrayed or the betrayer. Every person has his/her own way to see it. Thus, it would take eternity to define...

The typological reading of “Eve-Mary” in early christian authors

by Jerome Ypulong | September 8, 2024 | Religion | 0 Comments

INTRODUCTION The development of Mariology starts from the reflections of the first Fathers of the Church on the role that the Mother of Jesus plays in the history of salvation. The Fathers of this period rarely wrote exclusively about Mary, but always in connection...

Bahay at Buhay: Pagtanaw sa Diwa ng Pilipinong Relihiyoso

by Russel Padilla | August 26, 2024 | Society and Culture | 0 Comments

Sa Pilipinas, sadyang kapansin-pansin na hindi lahat ng salitang hiram ay hinango sa tunay nitong pakahulugan o paraan kung saan ginagamit ito ng banyagang kultura. Samakatuwid, ang siyang inaasahang tagabigkis ng ating lahi ay nagmimistula pang ugat ng...

Let the waves of the sea take you: the spirituality of Etty Hillesum and Simone Weil

by Lennon Caranzo | July 7, 2024 | Religion | 0 Comments

One of the images that I like the most when describing the relationship between man and his Creator is the image of the sea illustrated by the Jesuit Thomas Green (1). In it, Green uses the metaphor of the sea for the image of God. Man can do two things when he finds...