I remember watching a video clip of a man named Alton Sterling getting pinned down and then shot. I felt my stomach turn, unsure of how to react. I wanted to look away as the man lay in a growing pool of his own blood.
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As I thought about losses, I recalled my heart-stopping triathlon and some other losses which dealt with life and death. But my first big financial loss, at the age of sixteen, was a purple Toyota Celica GT that I loved.
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As foreigners in this world, we Christians ought to know better than anyone else what it feels like to long for a better country.
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When the second atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, it destroyed the largest Christian church in Japan, along with a Christian orphanage run by nuns, in a small area called Urakami. What can we learn from these historic events? What do they mean for us as American-Christians or Japanese-Christians living in the aftermath today?
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Have you ever felt out of place and unsure how to proceed? Maybe it was entering into a new social circle or going to a friend’s wedding or birthday without knowing anyone.
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