The Intersection of Faith and Culture
I am not Aboriginal. I did not go to residential school. But I am Canadian. My family and I have settled on Treaty 6 land whose original First Nations inhabitants were violently and illegally removed. I may not be directly responsible for Indian Residential Schools, but I am responsible to […]
Red Light Green Light film sheds light on sex trafficking in Canada One movie turned Michelle Brock’s life upside-down. It was 2006. Brock was at a conference in Atlanta, Georgia where the organizers were giving away a few hundred tickets to pre-screen a film. Out of 10,000 people in the audience, […]
Just two days after World Vision U.S. announced the organization would now consider hiring Christians in same-sex marriages, the decision has been revoked. On Monday, Christianity Today published an exclusive interview with World Vision U.S. president Richard Sterns. In the article, Sterns said the decision to employ individuals in homosexual […]
Several weeks ago, I attended The Justice Conference in downtown Los Angeles. The event is an annual convergence of Christian thinkers and doers in the world of social justice. Each morning before the conference began, my coworker Becky and I walked from our hotel to the stately Orpheum Theatre, sweating in […]
When I lived in New York, it was so hard to choose. Out of the countless different things the city offered, I could never decide where to eat, what to do, who to see. Since moving back to my home country — Myanmar — I have seen how the majority […]
And what I learned about the Church As a child I saw the original black-and-white version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. If you’re not familiar with this movie, here’s the run down: ordinary people are replaced with exact alien replicas of themselves, and the body switch happens while they’re […]