REFLECTIONS ON LIFE, WORK, AND FAITH IN THE 21ST-CENTURY AMERICA
Hopeful stories from a Catholic parent, business professional, and first-generation Asian-American
On our recent trip to Ecuador, my wife Lili and I spent three nights at the exquisite Sacha Lodge, deep in the Amazon jungle. To get there, we rode a motorized canoe along the vast Rio Napo (a tributary of the Amazon River) from the town of Coca. Along the way, the captain skillfully zigzagged …
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(Terjemahan dalam bahasa Indonesia tersedia di bawah, sesudah References.) Lent has just begun, and I already feel uneasy. As it happens, the Bible reading from Monday Mass—just two days before the start of Lent—was one of my “least favorites.” It’s the story from Mark 10:17-27, where a good, religious man asks Jesus, “What must I …
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Except for a weekend trip to Atlanta to visit our son Austin, his fiancé Tori, and her family in early December, Lili and I are staying in town this month. As I put up the Christmas tree on Friday the 13th (yes, a bit late! 😊), the ornaments we’ve collected from our many trips transported …
Last year, while driving along the scenic Godley Head Road near Christchurch, New Zealand, a disturbing sight stopped me in my tracks: a car, wrecked and abandoned, lay at the bottom of a hill. I didn’t know what had happened, but I felt sorry for the people in that car. One moment, they might have …
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REFLECTIONS ON LIFE, WORK, AND FAITH IN THE 21ST-CENTURY AMERICA 