Tag: De-Westernize
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Postured for Uncertainty
I need a different spirituality for this time…one postured for uncertainty. I realize now that what I had before was not sufficient. For all of us this time has been a continual onslaught of change and turmoil, unpredictables and unknowns, etc. etc. etc. But rather than constantly reacting to and defending against the next new […]
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Suffering Is
The season of lent invites us once again into the uncomfortable tension that Suffering is. Each year we are challenged to not rationalize suffering and to not jump ahead to a happy ending. Instead, stay here in this tension for 40 days. Suffering Is. The US culture of triumphalism allows us to pretend that we […]
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From Individual to Harmony
I grew up with my grandma. I called her Ahma in Taiwanese. Ahma was my childhood companion. After school and on long summer days, I liked to sit with Ahma as she folded laundry or prepped for dinner. Whenever she made large batches of mochi as gifts for friends, she always handed me the ugly […]
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Formed by Time
*This blog series is my own journey to de-westernize the ways that Western values have distorted my spirituality. This series is not a criticism of Western spiritual traditions. See series Introduction: This is my Un-Forming for more info. Clocks, watches, and calendars have formed the western understanding of time. With these tools time moves in […]
Finding Eden 