Cindy Wang Brandt

Do you ever wonder what language we’ll be speaking on that Day when we are resurrected with the rest of God’s people? In my last blog post I wrote about the tensions and joys of being a Bilingual. Some multilinguals describe their most dominant language as their “heart language”. It’s an apt description as it…

I am bilingual. Technically I am bi-and-a-half-lingual, because I also comprehend Taiwanese and speak minimally. I’m not really that smart and I’m not especially gifted with languages (trust me, two years of high school French and I can barely count to 10 proves the point). However, various factors and circumstances during my growing up years…

This morning, I read my post from Easter last year , and feel Easter is SUCH an important event for the world, for myself, and for my family, that I should make it an annual event to record my thoughts each year. So here are reflections for Easter ’10. This year I have been thinking…

If you don’t know already, I’m partnering with One Days Wages to raise funds for women who have been raped because of the longstanding civil war in Congo. The idea behind the campaign is to celebrate my birthday by asking friends and family to donate to the cause. One night before bed, I talked to…

What kind of crap? Well, when a 9 year old girl named Chance risks everything to tell the story of how her parents were killed in front of her, her aunt gang raped by soldiers, and how one raped her. You can see her in the video here: I’ve already ranted on the problem of…

Tragedy has struck again. The earthquake that has instantly destroyed thousands of lives in Haiti not only shook up the world geologically, but shakes the foundations of those with solid faith. Because we have such a hard time answering the question that stares us down in the face of massive suffering: Why would God allow…

I’m fascinated by all these news of Christians attacking Christmas (who would’ve thought googling Christians, Attack, Christmas, would turn out with so many results!) There’s one camp of Christians, led by orgs like Focus on the Family, who stage campaigns and rail against the secular commercial industry for taking the Christ out of Christmas. These…

I just finished the book Half the Sky by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. It was filled with gut wrenching stories of the suffering women endure, particularly in developing worlds. From rape victims to those sold into brothels to fistula patients, I often had to put down the book and just take a deep breath…

Don’t you just LOVE old people? I mean, the sight of an older Chinese couple strolling down Love River holding hands can just brighten one’s day. A friend posted on their FB status about being cuted out by two old men in a bookstore talking about how they could spend all day in there. And…