I’ve been putting this off for over eight months now. As a writer, I oscillate between the monumental importance of words on the one hand…
It’s been 9 days since Michael Brown was murdered by the police in Ferguson, MO. It’s times like these that I abhor Facebook and shun…
I have long been fascinated with Francis Chan. I first “discovered” the man in 2005 when I was a pimply high school sophomore, still relatively…
Every Sunday, it’s pretty much the same routine at First Chinese Baptist. I typically arrive 10 minutes late. This isn’t intentional, of course, but I’ve…
The other day I received an email with the subject title, “The inner city needs you!” complete with exclamation point. What followed was a series…
If you grew up in church, you know that the worst thing any young man can do is look at pornography. This post isn’t about that…
Earlier this year I was taking Conversational Cantonese at City College. After a lifetime of fractional non-conversations with my grandparents with mom and dad as…
The first time anyone came out to me, I was a junior in college. Up until that point, I didn’t have any close friends who…
And she named him Moses, saying, “I drew him out of the water.” One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to where…
A few weeks ago I sat down with Dave Lomas, head pastor at Reality SF. Why he would meet with a scrub like me is…