Judy Wu Dominick – Discipleship- Aiming for the heart from Cru Inner City on Vimeo. I had the opportunity this week to speak at the Creating Options Together 2016 Conference for Cru Inner City in St. Paul, Minnesota. I discussed… Read More ›
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Between Two Worlds
As a second-generation American who’s bilingual in English and Mandarin and barely conversational in Taiwanese, I’m not that far removed from Taiwan, my parents’ home country. However, my sense of conscious connection to Taiwan is just now emerging. It began after my… Read More ›
No Love, No Freedom
My friend and colleague Latasha Morrison, who started the non-profit Be the Bridge, got a call from a friend yesterday. Her friend’s friend – we’ll call him James – was on his way to another friend’s house in Baton Rouge when… Read More ›
PTSD: It’s Not Just a War Disorder
PTSD: A Mini-Primer Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD, has become a familiar term now because of its prevalence among men and women returning from war. We’ve seen it portrayed in movies and on TV: a returning soldier has intrusive flashbacks… Read More ›
What’s Playing on Your Station?: The Racialized Messages that Shape Our Identity
Most of us don’t spend time thinking about the fact that we’re surrounded by invisible communication signals. They travel largely unnoticed through the air we breathe in the form of radio frequencies, infrared signals, microwaves, and other kinds of electromagnetic… Read More ›
Mourning the Departed Among Us
When you hear a person talk about “losing someone,” death is likely the first thing that comes to mind. There are, however, significant ways of “losing” a loved one to something other than death – something that feels an awful lot like a death, but the… Read More ›
How Talking to Your Kids About Race Helps To Fulfill the Great Commission
“Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.”a This verse is a favorite among those of us who are raising our children in the Christian faith. We… Read More ›
A Biblical Approach to Overcoming Racial Discourse Allergy
When people start talking about race and racism, do you experience a range of negative emotions, an elevation in blood pressure, increased heart rate, sweaty palms, heartburn, chest tightness, or a knot in the pit of your stomach? If so,… Read More ›
‘Twas the Week Before Christmas – A Mother’s Tale
I thought I’d take a break this week from my usual routine and have a bit of fun as we prepare for Christmas. This poem has been adapted, of course, from Clement Clarke Moore’s famous work, “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas.”… Read More ›
Two Addicts, A Shooting, And Justice Served: An Incarnational Story For Advent
The Incarnation of the Son of God is one of the greatest miracles in history; yet most of the world missed it. We read in John 1:10, “He was in the world, and though the world was made through him,… Read More ›