Titus Jonathan's Stories

The first, this is a story about perseverance. The second, it’s about the spirit of a family where love, trust, and encouragement was planted, grew and flourished. The Wright brothers, Wilbur and Orville, began their dream that ‘man can fly’ in their home in Dayton, Ohio, in 1896. At that time, Orville, 25, was struck by the dreaded typhoid, for days he lay in a delirium, close to death. It was a month before he could sit up in bed. His brother, Wilbur, 29, reading a book for Orville about German glider enthusiast Otto Lilienthal who had recently been killed in an accident. Lilienthal had been doing his aviation experiment by taking lesson from the birds. He died after crashed several times of which the last caused him a broken spine. Apparently, the book about Lilienthal failure triggered Wilbur and Orville’s mind to do experiment based on the lesson-learned. “The works of Lilienthal had ‘infected’ us with the unquenchable enthusiasm and transformed idle curiosity into the activ...

Pope Francis is not only talking about theology, but also humanity. He is not only talking about faith, but also deeds. So when he talks about deeds, it is not only words. Faith without deeds is meaningless, that’s why he acts. His view about immigration, poverty, diversity, globalization, politics, social injustice and about the faith itself, is very insightful. This book is his conversation with a French reporter Dominique Wolton who interviewed the Pope in a very non formal manner at Saint Martha’s House, beside Saint Peter’s Basilica at Vatican City. In the interview session, the Pope is so natural. He replies seriously, but sometimes punctuated by laughter, too. All topics are discussed, and all are serious topics, including the issues of war that causes people are displaced from their country and flee as refugees. He criticized the countries that close its door to get the refugees in. “ Our theology is a theology of migrants. Because we all are, since the call to Abraham, w...