by Brad Zwiers | Mar 27, 2019 |
“This is not the way things are supposed to be!” is a very faithful response. Cry out.
by Elaine Schnabel | Mar 11, 2018 |
I didn’t swerve around the pothole because I didn’t see it. In many ways, I’ve forgotten how to look outside myself and outside my culture.
by Andrew Orlebeke | Sep 21, 2016 |
Self-exploration and discovery don’t stop at the end of the twenties or upon graduation or after getting married or ever.
by Greg Kim | Jul 25, 2015 |
But then the form asked me to provide my “Duration of stay in Korea (days).” I put my pen down and looked up. It hit me then that I had no idea how long I would be here.
by Greg Kim | Apr 25, 2015 |
In the face of wrong in which we have a share of the implications, I hope Koreans—and people of other societies alike in their own contexts of crisis— feel a sense of shame.
by Greg Kim | Feb 25, 2015 |
In a strange twist of fate, English has now become my first language, and I’m trying to bring my Korean up to a similarly fluent level.
by Andrew Orlebeke | Feb 21, 2015 |
As we have witnessed in countless places, economic crises tend to lead to civil unrest and increased anger towards the establishment. Not in Korea.
by Greg Kim | Nov 25, 2014 |
As I’m forced to reconsider the value of these objects, especially my books, I’ve noticed that I tend to place more value on familiar things, precisely because I think I can exercise control over them.
by Elaine Schnabel | Nov 11, 2013 |
I am learning to see God as my portion, but will I ever understand a life without air? The Lord’s favor is not an idyllic future, but a constant and inevitable, ineffable reality.
by Elaine Schnabel | Jul 11, 2013 |
I was Reverse Culturally Baffled last week walking through my sister’s trim, manicured neighborhood. The playground sign near her house advised Indiana suburbia: NO guns or hunting allowed.
