I had a great conversation with Jon Ward (Yahoo! News) recently about how I came to the work of writing about race, faith, and justice after a career in medicine. We talked about our polarized times, the importance of nuance,… Read More ›
Culture/Social issues
Becoming Just Disciples in an Unjust World
Note: This is a dynamic document. A little over a month ago, a church in Dallas asked me to help them develop a discipleship plan that would foster growth in their congregation in the area of racial justice. The church… Read More ›
Race: What Is It?
God created human diversity, but it is humans who created race and narratives of racial difference/hierarchy. Perhaps nothing illustrates the point more clearly than the fact that “All human beings are 99.9 percent identical in their genetic makeup.” Remarkably, God has designed… Read More ›
Someday Is Here Podcast: Episode 21
Weeks before the tiny little virus known as SARS-CoV2 changed life as we knew it, I joined host Vivian Mabuni on the Someday is Here Podcast for a conversation about the stages of my ethnic journey, from childhood to young… Read More ›
Special Podcast Episode: I Am Not a Virus!
Last Friday, Helen Lee, Eugene Cho, Seana Reavis, and I joined Someday is Here podcast host Vivian Mabuni to record a conversation about the stigmatization of Asians and the resulting anti-Asian sentiment that is occurring amid the enormous distress and… Read More ›
How the Latest Immigration Policy Changes Are Impacting Families with Medically Fragile Children
I just received an urgent update from my friend and former ministry partner, Tim Isaacson, who’s the director of the Atlanta chapter of Immigrant Hope. He is asking people to pray and to advocate for the families he is working… Read More ›
My Weekend at the San Diego/Tijuana Border
This is a guest post by Cindy M. Wu, Program Manager at Houston Welcomes Refugees, author of A Better Country: Embracing the Refugees in Our Midst, and co-author of Our Global Families: Christians Embracing Common Identity. (And also my sister-in-law)… Read More ›
One Tangible Way to Ease the Migrant Crisis
My friend Sarah Quezada, author of Love Undocumented: Risking Trust in a Fearful World, has written a short, helpful guide containing 15 ideas for supporting immigrants and addressing the migrant crisis. You can download it for free here. But I’d like to highlight what she and… Read More ›
U.S. History and the Current Border Crisis
I’m going to expand this into a long-form essay over the next few weeks, but this 14-tweet collection is a sort of preview.
