Dignity in death

We didn’t have the chance to know his name. We only know him as Thin Yannat’s father. He was a living skeleton—with sunken eyes and protruding bones. He was suffering from AIDS. Narlin, Megan, Aye Phet, our Burmese co-woker and I had visited him in different occasion to bring food and medicine. We came to [...]

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Thin Yannat

We were in Chiang Mai spending the holiday with the Garcias when we received a text message from Megan, the American missionary who volunteered to work with us. “One of the children had been kidnapped and we don’t know where she is right now.”
Panic started to set in and we called up our Burmese co-worker [...]

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Reasons to be thankful

I thought I’m having another bad week when I clicked at the link at the sidebar for Dr Jim West’s blog and learned that it was deleted. I knew right away that it was hacked and my suspicion was confirmed after reading numerous posts about the incident. I was relieved to learn though that after [...]

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A bad week

I had a terrible week. I was so frustrated that I almost cry. If my kids were not with me and didn’t make fun of the situation I might have done so.
First, Narlin and I planned to go to Mae Sot with our friend in her car. We arranged to meet her in Chiang Mai [...]

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Theology and culture: Worldview

What is worldview and how important to study it when you are doing cross cultural ministry? According to Charles Kraft worldview is inherent in culture. It is a culturally structured assumptions, values and commitments or allegiances underlying a people’s perception. It is the structuring of the deepest level presuppositions on the basis of which [...]

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Die with dignity

We didn’t have the chance to know his name. We only know him as Thae-Yaw Nat’s father. He was a living skeleton—with sunken eyes and protruding bones. He was suffering from AIDS. Narlin, Megan, Aye Phet, our Burmese co-woker and I had visited him in different occasion to bring food and medicine. We came [...]

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One of the children was kidnapped

We were in Chiang Mai spending the holiday with the Garcias when we received a text message from Megan, the American missionary who volunteered to work with us. “One of the children had been kidnapped and we don’t know where she is right now.”
Panic started to set in and we called up our Burmese co-worker [...]

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Moltmann on ancestor cult

Okinawa counts as a centre of the Asian ancestor cult. Everywhere in the mountains one sees graves with benches in front of them where families can gather. I gave the main lecture of my tour in a Catholic church taking as my subject “Ancestor cult and the Resurrection Hope.” My listeners were very moved, and [...]

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Theology and culture: Dimensions of Culture

We tend to judge the goodness of a culture based on the standard of our own culture. According to H. Richard Neihbur cultural is a social heritage, a human achievement, a world of values. It is concern with temporal and material realization of values and its conservation. Culture by its very nature is pluralistic.
Narlin and [...]

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Thoughts on inerrancy

I don’t want controversial theological issues to surface when I am with the students who ordinarily, I thought, would not have to wrestle with those issues. Partly, I blame us, teacher, because we think as part of their learning experience to try to challenge them to think about some issues that they need to [...]

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