Baseball started today (4/7/2022). I’m watching my team, N.Y. Mets, face off with Washington Nationals. The whistle of a fastball and the chirps of robins are back. Spring has started. Protracted lock out nearly locked us in a long winter. Baseball-less year wouldn’t have killed me. I made it through…

This past Monday (January 24th), I attended an online conference titled, “Mental Health and Asian Americans: Context and Strategies for Faith Leaders” I’m still processing my emotions and I need to talk it through with someone. This blog is me talking it through with you, my reader. Just to have…

As a kid, I hated going to Macy’s on Roosevelt Avenue of Flushing New York with my mother. She would haggle in broken English no matter how many times I told her this wasn’t the Namdaemun market. “Stop mom!” I pleaded with her, “The price on the tag is the…

It’s been seven months since the lockdown order in Louisville. So, putting on my wine-dark-red tie to join my wife, Suyun Son, for her art show on Friday night, felt excessive. Wine and art! How much more hedonistic can one get in these lean times? …

When they got there, they found breakfast waiting for them — fish cooking over a charcoal fire, and some bread. — John 21:9 Peter dives into the icy morning waters of Galilee, his broad sunburned chest so full of regret, he could not get to the shore fast enough. …

Shabbat After Good Friday Jesus’ body was quickly brought down and buried because once the sun set, all work was to halt; it was Sabbath. Sabbath (Shabbat), in Hebrew, means “to stop.” The whole world was to come to a stop. Even oxens, those beasts of burden whose sense of times isn’t divided into…

So Judas came straight to Jesus. “Greetings, Rabbi!” he exclaimed and gave him the kiss. Jesus said, “My friend, go ahead and do what you have come for.” -Matthew 26:50 Come friend, The air is warming with spring, and the stars are pregnant with Abrahamic promise. The cicadas are humming…