Anti-Asian-American Violence Still Persists…

Thanks to Danny Yang and the Next Gener.Asian Church blog for this reminder.
Almost three decades after Vincent Chin, I am saddened that we are still hearing about violence against Asian-Americans. As much as we think we’ve progressed, we have not.
2 Teenagers Are Accused of Killing Sleeping Man
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/11/nyregion/11arrests.html
Walking down a street in Flushing, Queens, long after [...]

Local Churches Reaching Homeless People in Los Angeles

Christianity Today reports about how churches and parachurhces in the LA area are ministering to the fairly large homeless population of the metro area. Los Angeles contains 10% of the nation’s homeless people, and many of them go through their day undetected. The article profiles ImagineLA:
A City of Angels for the Homeless

On George Tiller’s murder

On Sunday, Dr. George Tiller was murdered by a gunman in Wichita. Dr. Tiller was known for being one of the few doctors in the country who would perform late-term abortions.
Al Mohler (link below) writes an eloquent and well-informed commentary about this murder, affirming that this is a heinous crime. We cannot and should not [...]

Believer Marries Unbeliever: Unequally Yoked

Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?  –2 Corinthians 6:14
Bible-believing Christians look upon this verse to apply to marriage. While God desires for us to be in the world, a Christian need to choose a spouse who is [...]

Keeping One’s Word.

Lately I’ve been reading up on the controversy about the upcoming inauguration over (1) whether or not to have the president-elect sworn in with his hand on a Bible and (2) using the words “so help me God.” I am not going to discuss the merits of those issues, which can be applied to our [...]