When one of my friends sent me a link to this conference, I immediately signed up. I’ve talked about my feelings towards mental health and Christianity before, so I wanted to continue that conversation by recapping the conference and sharing some of my thoughts. Mental Wholeness and the Church is a three-day conference organised by… Read More Recap: Mental Wholeness and the Church Conference
Last week, my cell group had a pretty emotional discussion. Well, I say emotional but really most of it came from me/was me being emotional. Since this involves mental health, which is something I’ve been pretty open about here, I felt like this is a good place to process everything. By the publish date, you… Read More Mental Health and Christianity Shouldn’t Be Complicated
I got this book while attending a course on the teacher as a mentor for my Church’s Sunday School. The speaker there made a good point that kids nowadays can get any information they want from the internet; what they really need is to have someone they trust who can guide them. In this way,… Read More Spiritual Mentoring by Keith R. Anderson & Randy D. Reese
After reading about Nagai Takashi’s – a Japanese Christian – response to the bombing of Nagasaki, I decided to go back in time and continue reading about Christianity in Japan. This time, however, the topic is completely different. Christ’s Samurai is an account of the Shimabara rebellion, which has the dubious honour of being the… Read More Christ’s Samurai by Jonathan Clements
Today happens to be the anniversary of the Church that I’m attending in Sasebo and 平和聖日 (Holy Day of Peace) for the 日本基督教団 (United Church of Christ in Japan – for convenience, I use ‘the Church’ and ‘United Church of Christ in Japan’ pretty much interchangeably in this post, but I am not talking about… Read More (Part Of) Japanese Church History