Love: Casting out all Fear
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
By Leona Chen-Wong TJ, now 15 months old, triggers memories of my earliest AAWOL blog, written when he was just born. Back then, I wasn’t prepared for the overwhelming flood of motherly love or the fear of missing out on his growth. Each passing day, week, and month reveals subtle changes i... .. read more..
Love: Healing our Wounded Identities, Part II
Friday, April 12, 2024
By Charissa Kim Allen –>To read part I of “Love: Healing our Wounded Identities” Just like we courageously journey to label the deeply personal core messages about ourselves in pain, we also journey to discover the deeply personal corrective truths about our identity. And ju... .. read more..
Love: Healing our Wounded Identities, Part I
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
By Charissa Kim Allen My work as a therapist is anchored in the modality of Restoration Therapy, where I conceptualize each client’s story in two organizing camps: love and safety. Here, I will only focus on this first camp, love. In my conceptualizing, the love each client did or did not experie... .. read more..
The Kingdom of God: The Scandal and the Comfort of the Gospel
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
By Eunhyey Lok The Kingdom of God — what can I say or write about this that hasn’t already been written and said? And yet, it has been at the center of why being a Christian means so much to me. Having been raised in a Korean immigrant church, North American evangelical teachings shaped my ... .. read more..
The Kingdom of God: Kin-dom, Here and Now
Tuesday, March 19, 2024
By Yuri Yamamoto “But she is my mom… Why does she reject me?” Cried a grown white man hidden under a white hospital blanket. I met the man only once and don’t remember much about him. But he was suffering far away from home and expressed his loneliness and desolation. I tried to see him […] .. read more..
The Kingdom of God: An Economy of Abundance
Tuesday, March 12, 2024
By Sarah D. Park Boxes of baby clothes that will span the first full year of my son’s life, donated by friends and friends of friends. A ride-or-die bestie who flew in from another city to sleep train my baby so that I could rest. Enough friends and family to fill 3 months as they […] .. read more..
Sermons for Good Friday & Easter
Tuesday, March 5, 2024
One of the tasks that pastors find challenging is to find fresh sermons to preach during Good Friday and Easter Sunday. In the past, attendance increases during these special days in the Christian calendar, but nowadays more Christians are taking the opportunity to get out of the country for a br... .. read more..
The Kingdom of God: Upside Down
Tuesday, March 5, 2024
By Diana Kim “So the last will be first, and the first will be last.” -Matthew 20:16 Neoliberal capitalism has warped our sense of self, to the point where we are cogs in the greater system, forced to move in the pattern that has been determined for us; ultimately, productivity is constantly dema... .. read more..
Whats Been Happening
Monday, March 4, 2024
I noticed that it has been almost a month since I last posted. I have been away in Arizona, USA visiting my son’s family for a month. We had a great time with his family, especially quality time with our grandchildren, who we missed greatly for two years. However, this joy was soured by a [... .. read more..
Loving our Neighbor: Creating a Neighbor out of Love
Tuesday, February 27, 2024
By Wendy Choy-Chan Luke 10:27 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.Luke 10:29: And who is my neighbor? “Love” is a transitive verb that needs an object. I [subject] love [verb] ... .. read more..
Loving Our Neighbor: In our Many Worlds
Wednesday, February 21, 2024
By Tina Teng-Henson In a Facebook worldWho is not my neighbor? I find myself buying my college friend Aaron’s little daughter’s clay-made jewelry.They’re clear across the country in PennsylvaniaBut we’re in touchBecause her dad and I still connectOnce a monthTo pray for H... .. read more..
PastoraLab NY/NJ Open House this Saturday, 2/24!
Tuesday, February 20, 2024
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Christ’s Finished Work: Zion
Thursday, February 8, 2024
This final portion of an e-book that I am writing has been a long time coming. With this final deposit, I have completed the first draft of my e-book titled: “A to Z of Christ’s Finished Work”. I will need to edit and refine and knit them all together before publishing the book. Z could […] .. read more..
Christ’s Finished Work: Yes and Amen
Wednesday, January 10, 2024
The death and resurrection of Christ was foretold by the prophets of the Old Testament. Alfred Edersheim found 456 Old Testament verses referring to the Messiah. J. Barton Payne found 574 verses describing Jesus’ coming. Conservatively Jesus coming fulfilled at least 300 prophecies about him. God... .. read more..
Christ’s Finished Work: X Factor
Saturday, January 6, 2024
Everyone has heard of the popular X Factor programme created by Simon Cowell, where contestants with musical talents compete with each other to win over judges and TV audience who vote. The winner is the one with the x factor (an outstanding special talent or quality) and receives the prize of a ... .. read more..
Olive’s Top 5 Reads of 2023
Friday, January 5, 2024
2023 was a decent year for reading for me. I made more space in my life for doing puzzles but still managed to read a total of 52 books. Quite a few were books I read at bedtime with my kids, including the Chronicles of Narnia series, the Hobbit, and the whole Lord of the Rings trilogy (which I c... .. read more..
Friday, December 1, 2023
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Latin’s Four Pronunciations in the English-speaking World
Sunday, October 1, 2023
Latin continues to be important for the life of Anglo-Saxon cultures. The Anglo-Saxon world, however, has four fully competent pronunciations of Latin with each its own integrity; all other variants commonly used by Anglo-Saxons are imperfect attempts to approximate one … Continue reading &... .. read more..
How are you?
Thursday, July 20, 2023
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Charlotte Mason’s Educational Philosophy a Remedy to Problems in Some of Toda...
Monday, July 10, 2023
The more I learn about Charlotte Mason’s understanding of man and the ends of education, and the pædagogical methods by which this understanding is used in the actual teaching of children, the more I think it a remedy to the … Continue reading → .. read more..
Lue-Yee Tsang on a True Sola Scriptura Response to the Errors of Buggery and ...
Saturday, June 24, 2023
At The North American Anglican, I have written an article after one written by James Clark responding to Hans Boersma, Gerald McDermott, and Greg Peters on GAFCON’s Kigali Commitment: The right response is not to reject the classical Protestant understanding … Continue reading → .. read more..
Lue-Yee Tsang on Canon Wars in Classical Christian Education
Thursday, June 1, 2023
Forgot earlier this month to link to my article for the Davenant Institute’s Ad Fontes journal, ‘Whose Classical Education? Which Canon War?’ I contend for a cultural specificity in classical education, to bring out in each tradition the truths about … Continue reading → .. read more..
Unhealthy to Be Constantly Getting Ready for an Exam
Friday, May 5, 2023
‘Can it be good, from the age of 10 to the age of 23, to be always preparing for an exam, and always knowing that your whole worldly future depends on it: and not only knowing it, but perpetually reminded … Continue reading → .. read more..
On Being Indian & American
Friday, April 28, 2023
The following is a reflection from the Advance Initiative Conference in 2019 and was written as an assignment for a writing cohort I was part of. More information on The Advance Initiative can be found at https://advanceinitiative.com/. I don’t go to Advance Conference to learn about church plant... .. read more..
Crush busyness with this game changing habit
Tuesday, March 28, 2023
You’re busy. I’m busy. Everyone’s busy. I’m sure you’ve felt days where... The post Crush busyness with this game changing habit first appeared on Phil Chan . .. read more..
Anticipating AI: 4 Predictions and How Christians Should Prepare
Monday, March 27, 2023
Will AI make the world a better or worse place? And how... The post Anticipating AI: 4 Predictions and How Christians Should Prepare first appeared on Phil Chan . .. read more..
People who are teachable reach their call in God
Wednesday, March 22, 2023
Let me ask you a question that is so important to your... The post People who are teachable reach their call in God first appeared on Phil Chan . .. read more..
The 18th Century Not a Liturgical Model for Today in Ornaments of Church and ...
Monday, February 27, 2023
One reason, I believe, that 18th-century England’s neglect of the Holy Communion service’s Ornaments Rubric ought not to be interpreted as a norm for Anglican practice today, a reason implied by Charles J. Abbey and John H. Overton in The … Continue reading → .. read more..
Two Essays, for Letters and Lent
Wednesday, February 22, 2023
This week, two of my essays have been published, one with (Christian and non-Christian) American revisionists and the other with Anglicans: May the Lord bless you with faith and lead your heart to repentance as we enter the fasting of … Continue reading → .. read more..
China and the Idea of Empire
Saturday, February 11, 2023
Alain de Benoist says in his essay ‘L’Idée d’Empire’ (English translation at Gornahoor) that empire has a spiritual aspect to its authority, distinct from territorial definition. In consequence, in his judgement, ‘the decline of the empire throughout the centuries is … Continue readin... .. read more..
Two of My Poems Published at Atop the Cliffs
Wednesday, February 8, 2023
If you like poetry, I have two poems published over at the poetry journal Atop the Cliffs last year: ‘Of Valediction’s Silence, an Elegy’ (June 2022) and ‘Love the Sin and Hate the Sinner’ (November 2022). For those who like … Continue reading → .. read more..
Tim’s Top 10 Books, Shows, and Podcasts of 2022
Tuesday, January 31, 2023
It’s taken me a while to get this post finished (I’ll blame COVID, which negated about two weeks of productivity in January). In the past I’ve just shared my top 5 books of the year, but this year I thought I’d also share a few of my favourite TV shows and podcasts. BOOKS ... .. read more..
Say Goodbye to Phone Addiction: 3 Faith Practices to Relax and Destress
Tuesday, January 17, 2023
In today’s fast-paced digital world, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed and stressed... The post Say Goodbye to Phone Addiction: 3 Faith Practices to Relax and Destress first appeared on Phil Chan . .. read more..