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Kintsugi & Justice with Haejin Shim Fujimura (Podcast)
Read more: Kintsugi & Justice with Haejin Shim Fujimura (Podcast)In this episode we’re talking about Kintsugi & Justice with Haejin Shim Fujimura, who is a lawyer who runs her own law firm in NYC, Shim & Associates, and an entrepreneur who has started four businesses, including Academy Kintsugi, which uses the Kintsugi method to teach people about the beauty of mending our brokenness to…
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Contemplating Joy
Read more: Contemplating JoyI’ve decided that joy is a strange thing. We can experience joy apart from happiness. Sometimes joy leaks into our lives in the midst of sufferings and sometimes in erupts in the most mundane moments of our day. For such a short word, the meaning of joy seems vast enough to contain the simultaneous contraries…
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God’s Goodness in Grief
Read more: God’s Goodness in GriefGrief hurts. And it hurts for at least two reasons. There is on one hand the active pain of a particular loss. On the other, there is the God-problem: ‘How could God let this happen?’ I think C.S. Lewis gives us a great framework in his memoir, A Grief Observed. Three Views of God The…
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On This Day in History
Read more: On This Day in HistoryI want to tell you a story. Five years ago today, I got dropped off on Biola University’s campus to catch a ride with a stranger to the Bay Area for Spring Break. My dear friend Sarah and her parents had graciously invited me to spend the week at their home on a vineyard in…
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Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder…Or is it?
Read more: Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder…Or is it?Today’s culture, we as Christians can agree, is riveted by postmodern thought. Morals and truths are relative to experience and perception, one would claim. And in response, Christians, historically, have made efforts to combat this kind of thinking (although even this is now a subject of debate, sadly). But one problem I’ve always had, as…
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Christian Tattoo Artist Turbo Qualls: An Interview for The Two Cities
Read more: Christian Tattoo Artist Turbo Qualls: An Interview for The Two CitiesTurbo Qualls is a Christian, husband, father, illustrator, musician and works hard at his job. His job is the study of Aesthetics, and his chosen medium for exploring beauty is Eastern Orthodox iconography and tattoo art. Turbo has been tattooing people for fourteen years and has just opened up his own shop in Placentia California…
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Vampires and Beauty
Read more: Vampires and Beauty“I lay quiet, looking out under my eyelashes in an agony of delightful anticipation. The fair girl advanced and bent over me till I could feel the movement of her breath upon me. Sweet it was in one sense, honey-sweet, and sent the same tingling through the nerves as her voice, but with a bitter…