Natasha’s Study: Giving Myself an Incomplete

While attending seminary over the past 3 ½ years, I have acquired books, lots of them actually. Some may think that seminary increases one’s learning and understanding, and it does. For me, however, seminary also revealed how much I didn’t know and how much more I need to learn. So I started buying books toContinue reading “Natasha’s Study: Giving Myself an Incomplete”

A Testimony about Grace, Compassion, & Reconciliation

I am still encouraging my readers and friends to sign the “Open Letter to the Evangelical Church” which was drafted by 80 Asian American leaders who call for a dialog concerning cultural insensitivities and the racial reconciliation needed in the American Church. My friend, Vivian Mabuni, shares her personal testimony about entering into the livesContinue reading “A Testimony about Grace, Compassion, & Reconciliation”

Dangerous Act: Distorted Names

The Dangerous Act of Loving Your Neighbor Chapter 10: Distorted Names Nigger. Homeless. Immigrant. Stupid. Spick. Slave. Harami. Prostitute. Butch. Poor. These stigmas can be assigned to people of a different gender, intelligence, race, disability, sexual orientation, economic class status or people group. Words like these have long histories and are excruciatingly offensive to some.Continue reading “Dangerous Act: Distorted Names”