It’s been awhile since I’ve been incensed about something like this and so I wanted to weigh in on this issue from what I think might be a little different slant: THE ISSUE: A recent article in the Seattle Times details how a few prominent evangelical Christian leaders have sketched the practice of yoga asContinue reading “Is Eastern Culture Demonic? (a commentary on Mark Driscoll’s allegation that “yoga is demonic”)”
Category Archives: Asian-American
On Being Asian: Bellingham’s History of “No Chinese Beyond this Point”
Wow. Angryasianman has just called attention to a part of Bellingham, Washington’s past (and mine own too), which was the Chinese Exclusion Act of the early 1900’s, which systematically expelled, discriminated, and drove out Chinese-Americans up and down the West Coast. As a former resident of the town, I frequently walked past the plaque onContinue reading “On Being Asian: Bellingham’s History of “No Chinese Beyond this Point””
Art and Incarnation: Mako Fujimura
We had a discussion among our staff about the art of Makoto Fujimura this morning. He’s a New Yorker. He’s a Greenwich Village artist (my old haunting grounds back in the day @ Parsons School of Design). He’s asian (yay!) And he’s a Christian. So it intrigued me to watch an emerging figure who representsContinue reading “Art and Incarnation: Mako Fujimura”