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  • Taking the Long View

    Taking the Long View

    If I had first moved to China in the digital age, the face smack emoji would have punctuated many of my communications with people back home as I experienced a culture quite different from my… Read more

  • Giving Up on Glorifying, Part 2

    Giving Up on Glorifying, Part 2

    The Gift of Presence Recently, I’ve felt disillusioned with glorifying. In part, I’ve wondered about this question: How can I give Jesus something that already belongs to Him? Yet, even when I’m bowing in surrender… Read more

  • Giving Up on Glorifying, Part 1

    Giving Up on Glorifying, Part 1

    Glory Belongs to the King Watching the video of the Maverick City Music version of “Revelation 19:1,” the song takes me back to the unbridled days of my youth when Vacation Bible School singing would… Read more

  • Grit

    Grit

    …fine yellow sand from the Gobi Desert…drifted down into the streets, sand whirled in eddies and filtered through doors and windows. It silted into corners and lay upon tables and chairs and in the crevices… Read more

  • Hanging with my Humans

    Hanging with my Humans

    After growing up in church and then finishing Bible college, I went on to complete a second degree at a public university. That’s when I started hanging out with “tax collectors and sinners.” A few… Read more

  • Building Bridges

    Building Bridges

    In the novel Our Missing Hearts, Celeste Ng imagines an American society that labels China “our greatest long-term threat,” pulverizes Asian language books into toilet paper, and ostracizes people with Asian connections. After being locked in China… Read more

  • Freedom to Be

    Freedom to Be

    I love my home country, but having been influenced by Chinese culture while viewing my own through the eyes of others, certain aspects of American culture make me uncomfortable. Even small and simple ones. On… Read more

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