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Are Chinese Mothers Superior?

Are Chinese Mothers Superior?

An article asserting the superiority of Chinese mothers in comparison to their western counterparts has been making the rounds recently.  I’ve had it emailed to me and I’ve seen friends posting it to their facebook walls.  You can read the article “Why Chinese Mothers are Superior” online. The article is written by a Chinese mother (who happens to also be a Yale Law School professor and author) named Amy Chua.  In the article she anecdotally argues for the superiority of…

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Busy Month

Busy Month

This has been a busy month.  Mary and I went to Singapore for a week at the beginning of the month.  I had the privilege of officiating a wedding for two good friends and former members of the Highrock College group.  Ken and Hui were integral parts of our ministry in Boston, and it was great to see them and be a part of this special day. After Singapore, we flew back through Hong Kong and spent two days sight-seeing.  Derek…

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More Marches!

More Marches!

So Mary’s pregnant.  She just returned from the doctor today, and they told her that she will likely deliver early next winter.  She also came home with some ultrasound pictures.  The baby is 3.9 cm long.  You can see his/her little arms and legs and head.  Crazy. Mary and I think we have the most fantastic kids, and we can’t wait to have another one join our family.  I’m so thankful for them.  I believe that one of the most…

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Happy Families Are all Alike

Happy Families Are all Alike

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” ~ Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina This, the opening line to Tolstoy’s novel, Anna Karenina, is packed full of meaning, and the rest of the book expounds in story form what he means.   We read of one miserable family owing its pain to the self-absorption of the husband.  In another, it’s because of the internal angst of a middle-aged wife that drives her into the arms…

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Moved.

Moved.

This past weekend was the big move.   We moved three whole blocks, but we might as well have been moving to a different state.  We still had to box everything up, and we hired movers because we’ve got some really heavy items.  In honor of our move, I thought I’d put together a top 10 list of things I hate about moving: Other people get to see all the junk you’ve never thrown away Between the trips to Home…

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An Angry Attitude

An Angry Attitude

Two days ago my kids sneaked off with a box of strawberry cake batter mix from our pantry.  They ran to their room and opened it with the intention of eating the mix.  Not surprisingly, when they opened the bag some of the mix began to spill on the floor.  This became a game for them.  They took turns taking handfuls of this powdered sugar mix and flinging it into the air like confetti watching it rain down on top…

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A Theology of House Buying

A Theology of House Buying

http://www.flickr.com/photos/seandreilinger/ / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Mary and I have decided to buy a house.  Neither of us have ever bought a house before, and it’s a big decision.  I’ve been struck by how little the church talks about what principles should guide our thinking when we are buying a house.  Where should you live?  How much should you spend?  What type of mortgage should you  choose?  What sort of features should we be focusing on?  These are questions facing us…

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Happy Birthday to My Wife!

Happy Birthday to My Wife!

Today is my wife’s birthday, so I thought I’d take a moment to honor her here with a list of top ten things I love about Mary: She is a wonderful cook.  There is nothing like one of Mary’s homecooked Korean meals! She is empathetic.  She has a tremendous capacity to feel the pain other people are experiencing and walk with them through their struggles. She is wise.  As we venture out on this church planting adventure, I’ve already come…

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New York

New York

Mary and I just got back from New York.  We spent the past three days visiting friends in New Jersey and New York.  Then On Sunday night, I officiated a wedding for a good college friend.  Here are some pictures. The bottom pictures were taken from our hotel room of ground zero.  We were directly across the street from it, and we looked down on all the construction activity.  It was cool to see how big the foot print was,…

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Vacation

Vacation

We just got back from a great vacation down in Sanibel, FL.  My parents spend some time down their every year, and they invited us to join them for a little while.  Mary spent about a week down there, and I was down there for about three days.  Not as long as I would have liked, but still extremely restful and relaxing.   Some of the highlights: Spending time with family. I got to spend a lot of time playing…

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