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“Why aren’t we drawn to Dong Yun Moon?”

Eugene Cho thinks it strange that so little attention has been given to the case of Dong Yun Moon, whose family was killed when an F/A-18 crashed into his home in San Diego … while stories about much more banal topics (snow in Texas) are flagged up:

“To be blunt, is it because he has slanted Asian eyes?  He’s Asian which means he doens’t look like your prototypical male ‘American’ man.”

Story at Mercury News (San Jose).

“Help Me Meet My Mother”

John Lee Saddington, author of the Human3rror blog, shares the story of his life as an adopted child, and asks for prayer and funds for a trip to Korea he will be taking to meet his biological mother, for the first time:

“Through no action on my part … I’ve been given a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to have a ‘all expenses paid’ trip back to Korea to visit her.  The OKF (Overseas Koreans Foundation) with G.O.A.L. (Global Oversees Adoptees’ Link) has chosen my brother and I to be a part of a group that will have the chance to meet their birth mothers.  44 fellow adoptees will join us on this trek around the globe, affectionately called ‘The First Trip Home.’”

“Why I roll with the covenant”

Eugene Cho explains how he went from being the “angry deconstructionist pastor” of a non-denominational church to joining his congregation to the English Covenant Church:

“Some of my friends still give me grief that I chose to partner with ‘a bunch of Swedes’ particularly because diversity and multiethnicty was always an important ecclesiological pursuit for my vision as a pastor and leader.  So, why did I partner with the ECC even despite no truth to the rumors that Covenant pastors receive 50% discount from IKEA?  You might be surprised since many still don’t quite know much about the Covenant denominaton …”

“We the people, the Asian Americans”

D. J. Chuang discusses how Asian Americans approach faith and new media.