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Self-Regulation: The Fruit of God’s Spirit

Posted in reflections, tagged , , , on February 7, 2017| Leave a Comment »

8058650110_38e0ba2138_zBy Diana Gee

By contrast, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against such things.

–Gal 5:22-23

 

This past week I was in an ordination workshop. The class was made up of people in the process of being recognized as set apart for the ministry of shepherding God’s flock. What this all means is still being worked out both for me and for my church. For the record, I have no actual agricultural experience. The closest is of the gardening variety and pet-sitting. I feel unqualified and doubtful most of the time. Nonetheless, it’s a journey worth travelling, even if it is rather daunting and lonely. (more…)

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Reconciliation: Truths vs. Lies

Posted in reflections, tagged , , on April 26, 2016| Leave a Comment »

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Photo by Nick Kenrick

By Melanie Mar Chow

Truth or dare. Childhood memories recall a game that made me submit to the dare to eat the dreaded banana or to taste soap. The stinging words of “You liar!” from those that taunted me in my youth still feel like a slap in the face decades later.

My mind echoed back to those days when recently, I was deciding whether to put quotation marks on something I was writing.  (more…)

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Reconciliation: Defining from Differing Angles

Posted in reflections, tagged , , , on April 19, 2016| Leave a Comment »

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Photo by boysoccer3

By Diana Gee

Accounting

It’s tax season here in Canada. And for the first time I’m claiming clergy status to reduce my taxes. While this seems like a good idea, it has caused me much pain and gnashing of teeth. Since I had not bothered to claim clergy status before, I had to backtrack transportation and housing expenses for the last five years. (more…)

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Reconciliation: My Irreconcilable Relationship

Posted in reflections, tagged , on April 12, 2016| 1 Comment »

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Photo by magicatwork

By Young Lee Hertig

Life, amidst the culture of virtual takeover, demands us to devote more time, energy, and resources to machines.  The ongoing dependence and intrusion of technology accompanies the ongoing troubleshooting of technological problems.  Yes, I am aware of the fact that this blog is possible because of our digital access.  (more…)

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Reconciliation: Join the Party

Posted in reflections, tagged , , on April 5, 2016| Leave a Comment »

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Photo by gabia party

 

By Eun Joo Angela Ryo

Over the centuries, the Parable of the Prodigal Son has been exegeted inside out and upside down by both the bright and serious theologians and your average churchgoers alike; each character, each action, each dialogue, each WORD had been carefully dissected and analyzed and overanalyzed again and again.  (more…)

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AAU Letter Response #3: Leadership & Apologies

Posted in reflections, tagged , , , , on November 26, 2013| 2 Comments »

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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. (more…)

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AAU Letter Response #1: Laboring for the Fruit of the Spirit

Posted in reflections, tagged , , , on November 12, 2013| 2 Comments »

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Introduction to this 3-part blog series–>

By Melanie Mar Chow

Although I was not one of the first hundred people to sign the Asian Americans United letter, ultimately I did sign it, after some thoughtful and prayerful consideration.  My deliberations involved reflections on how to be responsible with my position and vast years of experience, as part of the Body of Christ, to act as a bridge to address racial tensions and perceived actions.  Would my response be limited only to the act of signing the letter as one of the 1000+ who signed it, or would my response involve and shape who I am as a leader and as a follower of Jesus as an Asian American Christian woman?  Was I responding individually or corporately? (more…)

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Author’s Corner: Making Paper Cranes

Posted in Author's Corner, tagged , , , , , , on March 26, 2013| Leave a Comment »

By Mihee Kim-Kort

I know. It’s a little cliche. A little Joy Luck Club meets Mulan. An Asian mother teaching her Asian daughter to do origami.

My mother taught me to make paper cranes when I was young. We sat at the kitchen table and took regular, white copy paper, folded the paper over in a triangle so it made a perfect square and creased the bottom so that we could carefully tear it off and discard it. After that it was “fold here, open here, bend here, fold again…”  Before long, a perfect paper crane materialized in front of us. For the longest time, this picture of my mother and me connecting over such a simple but almost magical object has stayed with me. (more…)

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Shared Insights: Forgiveness & Reconciliation

Posted in shared insights, Uncategorized, tagged , , , on November 29, 2011| Leave a Comment »

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Shared by Anita Liu

An area in which God has been challenging me is the area of reconciliation and forgiving others — and being humble.  From recent events in my family and life, I’ve been seeing that people wrong each other all the time.  I find that as an Asian American woman, or perhaps simply as an Asian, I am very prideful.  (more…)

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