January 6, 2025

Filipino Cardinal Leaps Aboard a Sinking Ship

  By David Haldane Jan. 6, 2025     I thought I was done with this subject for a while. Two weeks ago, I wrote a […]
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December 23, 2024

The Pope’s Anti-Semitism

 By David Haldane Dec. 23, 2024     The image was surreal. There, in the run-up to Christmas, a baby Jesus reclined on the floor of […]
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July 1, 2024

The Sea Gypsies Come Ashore

By David Haldane July 1, 2024   The joke made me cringe. “Are you a goodjau or a Badjau?” my companion asked the pretty young girl […]
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June 3, 2024

Philippine Divorce: To Be or Not to Be?

By David Haldane June 3, 2024     It’s no fun. As I’ve previously written, it feels like you’re falling down a dark hole. You don’t […]
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March 26, 2024

Nailed to a Cross

  By David Haldane   March 24, 2024     I vividly remember the first time I ever set foot in a Catholic Church. I must […]
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March 11, 2024

Zamboanga Reimagined

By David Haldane March 11, 2024     Hanging out at the mall. That’s how thousands of Zamboaguenos spend their weekends these days. You see them […]
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December 25, 2023

A Jewish Christmas in the Philippines

 By David Haldane Dec. 25, 2023     For me it’s always the same. Gangs of Christmas carolers gather on the patio to sing until we […]
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December 19, 2023

Socorro Bayanihan: Commune or Cult?

  By David Haldane Dec. 18, 2023     We were a mile off the coast of a remote Philippine Island when I realized the boat […]
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September 28, 2023

Fear of Nuns

By David Haldane Sept. 28, 2023   I have always been afraid of nuns. As a child, I used to see them in black habits with […]
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February 17, 2023

American Expat Launches Book on Finding Island Home

Cebu Jose Joya Gallery   LITERARY TREATS 2023: A TOOTH IN MY POPSICLE BY DAVID HALDANE BOOK LAUNCH APRIL 12th, 15th, and 25th.       […]
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December 29, 2022

Divided Faith

By David Haldane Dec. 29, 2022   I read some surprising news the other day. An American Catholic priest, it seems, had been dismissed from the […]
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September 15, 2022

Dancing in the Streets

By David Haldane Sept. 15, 2022     It happened again. People wearing ornate, many-colored costumes swirled in the streets to the cadence of drummers in […]
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