The Moment of Truth The world is at the tail end of a miserable and wretched so-called Golden Age but named correctly by all fair-minded persons on earth as the Age of Greed. Fortunately we are again standing at the …
Nigeria on Fire : Nigeria’s Darkest Moment, 1985-98 (IV) – The Cult of Ibrahim Babangida
Ibrahim Babangida and Sani Abacha, the two military demagogues, were not patriots in any debased sense, neither were they interested in protecting the North or anybody for that matter from any ‘foreign’ domination. They were merely two ordinary but psychologically …
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The Lord’s Prayer : Explanatory Note I – Father in Heaven
Introduction The first question that will strike a Christian fundamentalist after reading the last essay is to ask, with all the venom of intolerance that is humanly possible to muster, who are you to tamper with an age long precept? …
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A New Year and A New Prayer : The Lord’s Prayer
We are in the season of prayers or of good wishes for a new beginning in our lives. After due reflection, there are some things we did last year we wished we haven’t done or we could have done differently. …
Happy New Year
In 2017, my wish for you are, that you will have a spiritual breakthrough in consciousness; that your eagerness to seek spiritual prosperity will outweigh your desire for material prosperity; that your spiritual blindness, which prevents you from seeing all …
Catch Up
Fourteen years ago, SAM ABBD ISRAEL was very active as a freelance writer and commentator on the internet. I was forced to stop sharing my thoughts by circumstances that could not then be identified in words but can now be subsumed …
The Vision on the Mount
He who would leave the valley of familiar life in order to climb the far off mountain has to buy his achievement with unknown dangers and continual hardship. His friends will mock at him when he leaves the village of …