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
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?
Aloha friends, I write you from the land of the eternal 75 degrees, beautiful with all it’s bright sunny days, colorful tropical plants, and bird songs. Where fruit hangs low on trees, dropping coconuts, mangoes, guava, pamelo, and papaya upon us. It is a beautiful land where tourists flock to taste and consume its many … More Getting kicked out of our home…
This blog is written in response to a person very dear to me who shared concern about standing with the Black Lives Matter movement because of some protester’s tendency toward violence, the negative portrayal in the media, and statistics that suggest a much higher proportion of violence by blacks towards white people than vice versa. … More Why Black Lives Matter to Jesus, me, and InterVarsity
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https://vimeo.com/150226527 Michelle Higgins, Director of Worship and Outreach at South City Church gave a riveting talk on justice, race and the Black Lives Matter movement at Urbana 15. In this article I attempt to respond to the three most common overt or implied criticisms I encountered from white participants. What…
Last Sunday morning I was up way before my alarm clock with anxious thoughts swirling around. How did my thoughts become so crowded and backlogged? Perhaps it was the lack of true rest in my life. If I want to follow Christ, I will also, like him, find a lonely place to be with God … More Learning to Rest
crossing oceans bridging cultures 