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…
The yearning for justice preached by MLK Jr is a yearning felt today by the people of Hawai’i Nei. … More King: a holy hero
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
It’s strange how much the environment changes just 10min drive across the city. I spent an hour or so at the Samoan Church parking lot in Palama where a group of young people in a mission school ran a food bank for a more economically insecure community. The crowd gathered was mostly of Polynesian and … More an expensive slice of paradise
Today I realized that I don’t love the United States of America. My childhood years growing up as an American expatriate in Asia laid a shaky foundation for patriotism, propelling me to consider becoming an ex-patriot by choice. Living abroad has formed in me a disdain for our greed-driven foreign policy, reproachful treatment of visitors … More Lord, I don’t love the USA.
After returning from a day at the beach with a my new international student friends, I looked at the lovely bouquet on the dining room table a bit differently. I noticed how there was a beautiful diversity of flowers composing this flourishing arrangement. As they crowd together in the narrow vase, some blossoms are pulled … More a bouquet of cultures
“For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, And do not return there without watering the earth And making it bear and sprout, And furnishing seed to the sower and bread to the eater; So will My word be which goes forth from My mouth; It will not return to Me empty, … More Rain, Seeds, and Mango Trees
August 2, 2015 I’m on a trip to LA. While I’m here to take a grad-level course and visit friends and family, it seems an opportune time to explore my roots. As we did introductions in my course a couple of days ago, I mentioned that I live in Honolulu, but used to live in … More Origins
crossing oceans bridging cultures 