I grew up crossing oceans and love learning about the Creator through the diversity of cultures.
Why am I traveling in Europe for 2 months? My Europe Voyage is a spiritual pilgrimage of following the Spirit as I listen to the stories of the people of the lands I cross. From March 23 to May 22 I’ll journey through much of Western Europe to discover my ethnic heritage. I long to … More About My Europe Voyage
5 days ’till my launch I consider how much I will need to unlearn in order to learn new things. It’s St. Patrick’s day and in just a few weeks I’ll be in Ireland on a Celtic Pilgrimage learning about this saint!
On December 15, 2015, I was soaring across the Arizona desert at 40,000 feet. There’s something about being high up in the atmosphere in between my place of departure and destination that clears my thoughts and makes me feel a little closer to the heart of God. I had just said goodbye to a handful … More The Story behind my Europe Voyage
(This post has been churning within me for a couple years now. As we pry apart the crusty shell, I hope we’ll find a pearl…) When I moved to Honolulu a couple of years ago, my roommate kindly gave me her bicycle. As an independent-minded person, I much preferred cycling to riding the bus to … More Amphibious Cycling
I think the reason most churches don’t spend time talking about the race problem is because they don’t think there’s anything we can do about it. We’re suffering from a great lack of what Theologian Walter Brugemann calls “prophetic imagination”. Without an image of what the Kingdom of God looks like, how can we stand as a city on a hill in a bleak world? It’s time for us to recover our imagination. … More prophetic imagination
Most evangelical Christians would say Jesus came to die so that we can be reconciled to God and be with him forever in heaven. Right? Yes, and there’s more! The gospel’s good news is that individuals, communities, and nations who were once enemies can be reconciled. … More the gospel of reconciliation
Last week I spent a few days visiting a friend in Atlanta, GA. A most delightful discovery I made was to learn that Martin Luther King Jr is from this city! I made it a point take time to learn what made this man so great that he is memorialized all across the country by … More MLK: A Tale of Two Churches
I slipped into the passenger seat of a 2014 Lincoln and greeted my Lyft driver, an African American man about my age. During my brief stay in Atlanta, GA, I’d been inspired to learn about the Nobel Prize winner whose name and legacy is memorialized all over his home city. Today I was headed to … More Erasing Racism
https://youtu.be/Tc5inL6jAAs Manami Tokumoto, one of my talented friends in the International Student Ministry (ISM) which I lead in Honolulu, HI, made this video for her film class. Her assignment was to do a documentary about someone’s passion. It’s easy for me to talk about my love for cultures which ultimately comes from God’s heart for … More VIDEO: My love for cultures
I picture a small island with many people living happily. Suddenly it splits in half, then again in quarters. People are violent and shaking, clinging to one another as the water divides the sand and the quarters continue to fragment. The earth quakes and splits in countless spasms. Before long, only 3 people can share … More Christian politics — Who has my vote?
crossing oceans bridging cultures 