A sermon preached by Pastor Vicki on Creation Sunday at Church of the Village, April 17, 2016. A couple weeks ago, I was walking…
My husband and I have moved around a lot in recent years, and each move has involved a pretty major purge of possessions. Every time,…
I preached the following sermon at Yale Divinity School’s Lunar New Year worship service at Marquand Chapel on January 31, 2014. “Gōngxǐ Fācái!” A Mandarin…
There is a Youtube video making its way around this month. In it, a white man begins making small talk with an Asian American woman,…
A few years ago, I was privileged to spend an entire summer in my birthplace of Taiwan to study Mandarin Chinese. I thought it would…
When I was a baby, I babbled in tones. Chinese tones. My mom was a white Missouri farm girl who became a Methodist missionary. She…