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Dear reader, Timothy Keller said something in his Questioning Christianity series that stuck with me: it doesn't matter how much historical evidence you present for Christianity if your background belief is that Christianity is fundamentally bad. The facts won't penetrate. You'll find a way

Dear reader, I keep stumbling over the same word in church: Lord. King. Sovereign. The language makes my stomach tighten, not because I'm uncomfortable with authority, but because history taught us that unchecked authority corrupts. Americans revolted against monarchy. Japanese democracy emerged from the ashes of imperial absolutism.

Dear friend, I don't know how to tell you this without sounding like I've betrayed everyone I once stood beside. Maybe I have. It started small. An offhand comment in a meeting: "Maybe we should let someone else lead this time." I'd

I spent years reciting words I didn't understand. Every morning in elementary school, hand over heart, we pledged allegiance to the flag. I thought it was cool that I'd memorized it. Then one line started bothering me: "under God." The secular argument seemed airtight—

Dear friend, There's a specific kind of panic that sets in when you're the only one not crying. I was in grade school the first time it happened. A Chinese church—my first time visiting. We were sitting in a circle, and someone started praying. Then

Dear Reader, I keep circling back to a question that makes my stomach knot: What if telling someone about Jesus actually makes it harder for them to reach heaven? The Oncology Nurse There's a woman I'm imagining—let's call her Ayako. She's

I'm starting this blog because I can't shake certain questions. For the past half decade, multiple health scares forced me to confront what I actually believe—not what I inherited, but what holds up under pressure. Since then, I've been caught between three worlds: