The Intersection of Faith and Culture
In this Netflix-era of TV, I know many of you readers have yet to watch the final episodes. So I promise, no spoilers. At least, no MAJOR spoilers: if you’ve seen Season 8, you’re safe. Kids. It was emotional. Like that moment when you saw Voldemort burst into pieces or […]
It’s 2:45 p.m. In 10 minutes I will resume my day, but for now I have a few moments of quiet. I pick up my mostly empty mug and scroll through my Facebook news feed. Then I see a news article that stops my breath. “Victim in fatal crash identified as head […]
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Vision U.S. announced the organization would now consider hiring Christians in same-sex marriages, the decision has been revoked.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 […]
We sit in a circle of sunlight on the rug, with my son Kasher on my lap and my other son Aiden beside me. We open the children’s Bible, we choose a story. They always like the exciting ones. The stories about Noah and the ark, about David and Goliath, […]
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 […]