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By Tina Teng-Henson
these days I think a lot about my family
I don’t think I would have done this before I had a child Continue Reading »
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By Liz Chang
I try to make a trip across the country to visit my parents at least twice a year. My parents have lived in the same apartment since 1997. For the past several years, I’ve come to notice something about the apartment: something looks different each time I visit. Continue Reading »
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By Young Lee Hertig
Leaving 2013 behind, the year of the snake, I am excited to welcome 2014, the year of the white horse. Growing up with Asian folk culture meant that each new year was met with the assigned animal symbol and subsequent foretelling of what the year might bring. Personally, I like the horse much better than the snake; since childhood, I have never been able to even touch a picture of snakes!
Resonating with the symbolism of the white horse — free, independent, spirited — I dare to dream of a more equal society rooted in the virtue of seeking common good. Continue Reading »
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By Debbie Gin
Do you sometimes feel like you’re forever doing the “Bunny Hop” (two steps back, three steps forward) in life? When I get to June or July of a given year, I try to do a midterm check: Where am I with God? Where am I with my interactions with others? Where am I with my professional life? Continue Reading »
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By Eun Joo Angela Ryo
“Oh the weather outside is frightful… but the fire is so delightful… and since we’ve no place to go… Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!” As the Christmas carol bellowed out of my car radio, I could hear my children in the backseat excitedly dissecting, exegeting, analyzing, and parsing every comment we had made about what they might get for Christmas this year. Continue Reading »
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By Joy Wong
The last time I wrote for the blog was February this past year, when all things felt eclipsed by my pregnancy. Fast-forward ten months, and I now have a 7-month-old baby girl; how time flies! When pregnant, I often wondered how my journey in ordination would turn out after I became a mom. Would motherhood render me an “ordination dropout?”
It’s been a surprising journey — one that has required a constant assessment of my needs in order to know how to thrive as a mom. Continue Reading »
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By Dorcas Cheng-Tozun
I’ll admit, I sometimes wonder about this. The impossible standards, the emotional distance, the indirect communication — and all that smiting in the Scriptures for offenses that really don’t seem that bad. All God would have to do is add piano-playing and good grades to the Fruit of the Spirit to become a fully fledged Asian deity. Continue Reading »
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By Jerrica Ching
Last week I took advantage of a low-priced airfare special to fly back home to Hawaii for about six days. It was a very short trip, yet with leafless trees, an earlier sunset, and temperatures gradually dropping, those six sunshine-filled days with my family and friends made it all worth it. Continue Reading »
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Introduction to this 3-part blog series–>
By Vivian Mabuni
I don’t use the word “retard” or “retarded” anymore when I refer to myself after I mess up.
I have two author friends, Amy Julia Becker, author of A Good and Perfect Gift and Gillian Marchenko, author of Sun Shine Down. Continue Reading »
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Introduction to this 3-part blog series–>
By Debbie Gin
A few years ago, one of the student groups at Azusa Pacific University invited me as a faculty guest speaker to talk about research I had done on Asian American ethnic/racial identity development. Pleased that a student group wanted to balance its more socially-fun agenda (i.e., parties) with more substantively-fun sessions, I didn’t hold back. Continue Reading »
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