Faith & Culture
Peace, peace. But for Whom?
When I was living in China, taxis were a convenient and cheap mode of transportation. One time, our taxi driver got into a small fender bender. The cabbie of the offended party got out of his car and began walking towards us shouting angry retorts, garbled in the thick Tianjin accent I was yet getting…
Read MoreLife Changers – Podcast Edition
Before I move on with this week’s Life Changers, I just want to take a moment to address the #FergusonDecision which seems to have taken over all my social media feeds in a storm of high emotions and turmoil. Although I am not American, I know most of my readers are, and I just want…
Read MoreBook Review – Overrated by Eugene Cho
Why would you want to read a book by someone telling you you’re “Overrated”? Who tells you to “shut up” in chapter 4, and calls himself “Eugene the Dream Destroyer”? I call myself a social justice Christian on this blog. I believe in fighting for equality, obliterating poverty, environmental sustainability, and world peace. But Eugene…
Read MoreLife Changers 11/21/14
Welcome to this week’s Life Changers. I tell people I am more interested than being evangelized than evangelizing. It’s because I really do love listening to other people’s voices. I mean, really, I hear myself all the time. Theodicy. That’s a big word to describe why sh*t happens and why doesn’t God care. It’s a…
Read MoreGospel, Not Glamour – at SheLoves
I’m delighted to join the community of SheLoves again this month featuring a piece titled, “Gospel, Not Glamour.” Theologian Cecilia Gonzalez-Andrieu, author of “Bridge to Wonder: Art as a Gospel of Beauty”, says this: “The opposite of beauty is not ugliness, it’s glamour.” The real affront to beauty is that which disguises as beauty, but…
Read MoreLife Changers 11/14/14
Reading and writing are intertwined. For every word I write, I consume hundreds. Our writings are not produced in a vacuum but in an ongoing conversation with the wider community. In a very real sense, what I’m reading each week sharpens my ideas, shapes my thinking, and indeed, changes my life. This week in Life…
Read MorePermission to Complain
Christian women have a tendency to seek permission before expressing frustration. Perhaps it’s a non critical embrace of the biblical exhortation to “do everything without complaining or arguing” (Phil. 2:14); or it is in idealizing an attitude of sacrifice, we have learned to suppress the urge to vent unhappiness in our lives. Complaining about coworkers,…
Read MoreLife Changers 11/7/14
Welcome to my weekly Life Changers, a post where I share my favorite reads around the internet, and hyperbolically call them my “Life Changers”. Hyperboles are my friends. They help me pretend my ordinary life is glamorous. I will not be shamed into using reasonable, honest phrases with integrity. Oooookay, then. Without further ado, I…
Read MoreFive Reasons the Senior Crowd is the It Crowd
One significant difference between Eastern and Western perspectives is how we treat the elderly. Although modern society is eroding some of our Chinese traditional values, in general, there is still more respect and honor for the elderly than our western counterparts. Western society is highly youth-centric: valuing industriousness, productivity, and vitality, marginalizing the aging population…
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