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  • MLK: A Christmas Sermon on Peace and Non-violence

    “This Christmas season finds us a rather bewildered human race. We have neither peace within nor peace without. Everywhere paralyzing fears harrow people by day and haunt them by night. Our world is...
    December 24, 2018
  • A Prayer for the Arrival(s)

    Advent: Middle English, borrowed from Medieval Latin adventus, going back to Latin, "arrival, appearance" Refugee claimants (people who have fled their countries of origin to make a refugee claim, and...
    December 3, 2018
  • The Truth about Mutuality

    “Difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas; as in escaping old ones.” – John Maynard Keynes There are many things in life as a person of color and faith that present great challenges. I...
    November 30, 2018
  • Holding Each Other Up

    I am the pastor of a church that has a lot of people involved in each Sunday morning service. We have a Bible reader, a liturgist, a music leader, an elder, a deacon, and a congregational prayer pray...
    November 23, 2018
  • Recovering a Theology of Place

    We so rarely know where we really are. We drive around in cars, spend our days under fluorescent lights in artificially re-circulated air, staring at screens and moving so quickly from task to task...
    October 19, 2018
  • The Idolatry of White Supremacy

    My wife and I were ready for our new adventure as a future clergy couple in New Jersey. In 1993, Sharon and I, along with our Persian cat Kuzak, stuffed our yellow Pontiac Sunbird to begin our...
    September 14, 2018
  • Trusting in Princes

    The primary strategy white Christians have taken over the past 45 years to reduce abortions has been to make abortion illegal. This goal can only be accomplished by getting conservative justices on...
    August 16, 2018
  • Love Looks Like My Aunt's Table

    In Hong Kong, two things are very valuable. One is space. There isn’t much of it. Hong Kong has one of the highest population densities on the planet. The Mong Kok neighborhood where we have been...
    July 23, 2018
  • Jesus' Take on Family Values

    We’ve been hearing lots of talk about family lately. In the USA, the nomination of a new Supreme Court judge has prompted talk of family values. The detainment and separation of migrant families has...
    July 13, 2018
  • On the Road Together towards Justice

    Review of Journeys to Justice (Novalis, 2018) by Joe Gunn How should churches deal with political issues? That question has long sparked incandescent discussions among Christians. Many hold that God...
    June 25, 2018