Recently I celebrated my twentieth anniversary of living in the United States, a date I anticipated with significant feelings. […]
Arts & Culture
Radical Generosity
The idea of gratitude journals used to make me a bit skeptical. If you have to make yourself write down what you’re thankful for, do you really feel grateful?
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Your Joy Is Sorrow Unmasked
It’s been more than a decade since I first discovered The Prophet written by Lebanese poet Khalil Gibran and published in 1923. […]
Is Your Cross Too Small?
The cross has always been a problem. One does not expect, to say the least, one’s Messiah to be crucified! […]
Four Seasons
Amid the uncertainties of the stages of life, we can find seeds for growth and a deepening understanding of God’s provision. […]
Faith in the Ruins
Whenever people ask me for a book recommendation, I list off a few of the classics I love—Steinbeck’s East of Eden or David James Duncan’s The Brothers K—and then the following interchange almost invariably occurs: […]
A Place to Call Home
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City is arguably one of the most important books published in 2016. […]
Rise up!
Hamilton: An American Musical hit the Broadway stage in August of 2015 […]
SoundPicks: A Lenten Playlist
Ever since I first attended a church that followed the rhythms of the church year, I have become an avid devotee to that unique way of telling time—both in public worship and personal devotion. The regular cycles of feasting and […]
The Covenant Church in China
Local troublemakers spread rumors that a man—a foreigner—was causing people to become ill. […]
A Complicated History
By any measure, American evangelicals had a small footprint in the Levant in the early 1800s. […]
Eulogy for White Christian America
By any measure, Garden Grove Community Church was an American success story. […]