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 Hollywood isn’t real life, but when real life (mine and the lives of the actors) and Hollywood converge it is great fodder for thinking and conversation. Peter and I can’t stop talking about a recent date night movie, Up in…
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Tags: appearance, assumptions, balancing act, Bible, body language, business, business woman, choice, Christ, Christian, colleague, conversations, crisis, dressing for success, equal pay day, ethnic, female, Gender, george clooney, God, hollywood, imbd, leaders, leadership, management position, marriage, Mary, men and women, midlife crisis, mom, mother, movie, movies, parenting, pastor, pastoral, paycheck, Peter, power dynamics, queen esther, Ruth, ryan bingham, Scripture, serving, stereotype, stereotypes, successful women, travel, vera farmiga, Women, Work
I had never noticed them before. I’m sure I would have noticed them if they had been there just a few weeks ago. Without a doubt these were new, unwelcomed, and unwanted — several white hairs peeking through my fashionably…
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Tags: 40 is the new 30, aging, America, Asia, asian, Asian American, asian culture, beauty, betty white, brown roots, career, chemical peel, class, culture, elders, erma bombeck, extended family, external beauty, Family, Immigrant, madeleine l engle, market, nip and tuck, older woman, Race, self, television, turning 30, turning 40, warning signs, white hairs, Women
Would you be interested in getting to know someone if all you knew about her was what she didn’t do?
Christians don’t lie, cheat, steal, and gossip about their neighbors. Christians don’t smoke, drink, use illicit drugs, cuss, play cards, dance, watch…
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Tags: Abortion, Christian, compassion, context, Forgiveness, grace and mercy, Homosexuality, homosexuals, neighbors, play cards, premarital sex, public school system, relationship, Religion, science teachers, serving, sex education in schools, straitjacket
Right now my head is a bit stuffed up thanks to a cold, but the little voice inside my head usually takes no prisoners. This past weekend, however, it was not expecting such a direct confrontation.
“Why don’t you think you’re…
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Tags: audiences, Bible, Childbirth, Christ, Christian, colleague, crowd, Ethnicity, female, Gender, intervarsity christian fellowship, leaders, leadership, leadership role, little voice, Preaching, public speaker, rhetoric, rhetorical question, self, self doubt, self promotion, serving, speech, speech team, successful women, teaching, voice inside my head, Women
Is nothing sacred anymore?
With the exception of one Super Bowl in the ’80s, I’ve generally looked at Super Bowl Sunday as an excuse to eat chips and watch the commercials. During the regular season, football commercials tend to bore me.…
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Tags: Abortion, advertising, CBS, Christian, female, Football, male, Philippines, Pro-life, sally jenkins, Super Bowl, tim tebow, washington post, Women
My husband asked me that question last night: “Do you think you’ll feel different after you become a citizen?”
I can’t remember when I didn’t consider myself a hyphenated American. Asian-American, Korean-American. Always something-American. Sure, there are those who will argue…
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Tags: America, American, Asia, asian, Asian American, Children, citizen, citizenship, culture, Democracy, ethnic, Ethnicity, Family, green card, hyphenated american, korean american, Materialism, melting pot, Privilege, Race, salad bowl, Taxes, Vote
I’ve been thinking a lot about money, specifically about my personal finances (if there is really such a thing) and the power money has on my life. Recently I was part of a panel discussing following Jesus while simultaneously honoring…
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Tags: affluent suburb, America, american dream, ashamed, blessing, budget, church, conversations, decisions, dream, economy, Education, ethnic, Finding Our Way in the New Economy, Immigrant, injustice, intervarsity christian fellowship, Materialism, money, personal finances, Poor, profession, retirement funds, sacrifice, salaries, security, shame, stewards, stewardship, system, systems, wealth, Work
Tags: America, Asia, Asian American, Black, church, Community, david campbell, Ethnicity, Gender, Hispanic, Hispanics, hybels, intervarsity christian fellowship, Joel Osteen, lakewood community, leaders, leadership, magazine, Multiethnic, Race, racial, Segregation, serving, Time, White, Willow Creek
In the eight years I worked specifically with Christian Asian American college students, I knew that my gender would get in the way. I was not a pastor – youth, English ministry, college, women’s ministry or otherwise. I was not a seminary…
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Tags: Asia, Asian American, asian americans, assassin, book, Books, Christian, christian bookstore, complexity, context, controversy, critique, culture, deadly viper, discipline, English, ethnic, Ethnicity, feminine, Gender, God, husband, Kids, kung fu, leaders, leadership, male, men, Ministry, pastor, Prayer, Privilege, Race, Racism, Sexism, stereotype, stereotypes, values, warriors, wife, young men, zondervan
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