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Where Are You?

Posted on March 4, 2015 by pken1997

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/6795764?utm_hp_ref=religion&ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000067 I just posted the above article and the following comment on our church’s private FB page for our LGBTQ support group The Open Door: “As you read thru this article about the high price that evangelical churches like ours … Continue reading →

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When Did Being “Conservative” Become the Safest Thing for a Christian to Be?

Posted on July 11, 2014 by pken1997

I just finished speaking at a historic week-long annual Christian conference. I met my future wife while both of us served on staff at the conference’s 1979 high school camp and we helped lead subsequent camps for teens and then … Continue reading →

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This Problem Already Has a Proven Solution

Posted on December 26, 2013 by pken1997

[Sojourners asked me to write this as a follow up to the Harper/Wallis post.  I submitted it but I never heard back from them.  So rather than waste this piece, I thought I’d post it here.]     A recent … Continue reading →

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Identifying Blind Spots and the Asian American Letter to the Church

Posted on October 28, 2013 by pken1997

Originally posted on Jon Eng 吴国盛:
Two Caveats: I don’t like to be in the limelight. It’s not my natural inclination to engage in dicey conversations or involve myself in conflicts. Yet if I’ve learned anything over my short 28 years…

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Matthew 18.15-17, Godly Confrontation, and Forgiveness

Posted on October 2, 2013 by pken1997

Matthew 18.15-17, Godly Confrontation, and Forgiveness. this is so thorough, objective, and accurate that I find it startling.

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A Pain-filled Realization

Posted on September 6, 2013 by pken1997

Last fall (2012) I contacted a local artisan who hand-crafts steel-tubed, lugged bike frames.  To my surprise, he would be finished with his current project in a few months, so this past January I eagerly began working with him to … Continue reading →

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Despicable We

Posted on July 18, 2013 by pken1997

There are at least two ways to become a despised person.  Do something that a significant number of people deem despicable (and thus become a despicable person in their judgement).  Or hang around despised people enough and the same folks … Continue reading →

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Asian Americans: Let’s Stop Thinking That We’re Switzerland

Posted on July 16, 2013 by pken1997

I haven’t blogged in, well, a long, long time.  But the verdict that came down last week in the Martin-Zimmerman case in Florida was just the catalyst I needed to sit my butt down and pound out a post. Having … Continue reading →

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Learning from the Amish in the Wake of Pres. Obama’s Affirmation of Same-Sex Marriages

Posted on May 11, 2012 by pken1997

My old Xanga site is so ancient history, but it’s taken President Obama’s very public affirmation of same-sex marriages to get me off my blogger’s butt and start up here on WordPress.com. Since you probably don’t know a thing about … Continue reading →

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Hello world!

Posted on October 11, 2010 by pken1997

Welcome to WordPress.com. This is your first post. Edit or delete it and start blogging!

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