Hard Conversations

Mass shootings have become weekly affairs, so have the calls for gun control. Who could blame those who are demanding it, particularly in light of the unthinkable violence done to the children in Uvalde, Texas on May 24th? While most of what is being said is valid, no one is talking about that which is obvious: Gun control doesn’t change the heart of very people who actually carry out these heinous acts. This videoblog is about what’s really lurking at the heart of those who kill others because they don’t want to live anymore; in short, they want to take others with them. Someone else cited in the Bible does the same. Who might that be? This videoblog is about who is influencing whom to do the unthinkable. May God have mercy on our country, particularly those who have been affected by recent mass shootings that are too many to even count.

This videoblog is mainly about drinking. It's my response to a conservative Presbyterian pastor who, in one of his sermons, said to his mostly Asian American congregants, "Sip bourbon and scotch, and puff away for the glory of God." Say what? Really?

All those pro-choicers who make countless arguments in favor of abortion—“My body, My Choice”—they never go there . . . Where? Well, I will take you there. It is an inconvenient truth about abortion that the abortion advocates in the mainstream media, government, academia, and Hollywood won’t tell you, but their collusive silence doesn't make it any less true. I discovered this truth many years ago through young people who were caught in the web of unexpected repercussions following an abortion. Folks, abortion in America is no longer about pro-choice; rather, it is in-your-face PRO-ABORTION ... or else!

Non-binary! It is a buzz word these days; many people are using it. Non-binary gender. Non-binary world. Non-binary worldview. Do you know what that term means? I am quite certain that most folks who use that word do not really understand what that term implies. How do I know that? Just like marriage bachelors or square triangles do not and cannot exist in real world, non-binary world is an impossibility unless those who seek to promote it make an exception for themselves, which they do (without realizing that they are doing that). And therein lies problems that, if not curbed, will greatly debilitate our cultural system to sustain life as we have known it. We are actually living through it right now; it will surely get worse. Sounds uninteresting? Give this video a try—it really does relate to your life, your culture, and your world.

There was a time when culture meant the culture of “White Anglo-Saxon-Protestants.” It occupied the center, demanding that the rest of the world submit and conform to it. Thankfully, those days are in the past, for we are now surrounded by diverse cultures with a level playing field and appreciating for our differences. Nevertheless, this, otherwise, wonderful development has produced a problem of different sort, one in which no truth is deemed binding everywhere and at all times. There is a name for this: cultural relativism, which has begotten moral, epistemological, and philosophical pluralisms. I am going to talk about what’s going in the Black community and, to some, I have no business doing so since I am an Asian, that is, someone who is outside of the culture of Black American. Well, check out the videoblog to consider this rather complex issue that, if handled improperly, will create an incredibly unsafe society in which people live in a constant state of fear.

Not many people see the importance of pastors until we are faced with life’s difficult circumstances. When faced with troubles, pastors are one of the first people we call to hear comforting words, seek advice, and receive prayers. And it is this group that has taken the brunt of the ongoing season of COVID and social unrest. Recently, a Baptist pastor shared a blog to let everyone know that the Great Resignation has befallen pastors as well.

While I know no one in my organization who is about to leave the ministry, nevertheless, in speaking to many of them, this season has taken its toll on them. One factor is that pastors, by the nature of their position as the leader of people who look to them for spiritual guidance, have, for that reason, experienced a high degree of vulnerability precisely because they no longer led during COVID and had no real answers when social unrest broke out.
So, as we have been slowly coming out of this season while still licking our wounds, I present this videoblog to present how we can get our pastors back on track, by way of pointing to what the church ultimately is in a larger society and what pastors are called to be in view of that.

Will Smith slapping Chris Rock’s face; Democratic congressman Eric Swalwell floating the idea of kicking out every Russian student from America; students from America’s top universities rejecting free speech . . . So what do they have in common? Goldwaterism! What’s that? Goldwaterism is named after Barry Goldwater, the conservative Republican senator from Arizona in the latter 20th century, who famously said something that, ironically, is vigorously practiced by the people on the Left. So what did Goldwater say? Well, check our my videoblog and you will understand how Smith, Swalwell and many university students have become Goldwater’s unwitting disciples.

Putin and the three Russian figure skaters? Are they one and the same? Do they belong to a same category? No, of course not. Putin is in a [low] class all by himself. But there is something in these Russians that we, too, share. Certainly, Roger Clemens, Barry Bond, Vince Lombardy, and Tom Brady share it. What is it? Well, this “it” was poignantly described in a song in the 1960s sung by a sultry singer named Peggy Lee. And today, because of these Russians, we get to examine our own lives whether we are still chasing after the wind.

Actress Whoopi Goldberg, also a long-time member of “The View,” has been blasted in recent weeks by both Left and Right for saying that the Holocaust has nothing to do with racism. But what’s more telling about the Left’s public outrage against what Goldberg said, which, by the way, isn’t entirely wrong, is their silence on what Goldberg didn’t say. And that shows what the Left truly believes as the worst evil humans can commit, which, unfortunately has the effect of making us to blind to recognizing the real problem behind racism, ethnocentrism, and anti-Semitism.

Three issues addressed in the second part of, “A Candid Look at Transgenderism”:
1. Why the term “gender” should not be used as a synonym for “sex”? They are certainly related, but they are not the same thing; using those words indiscriminately confuses the real issue.
2. What is really behind the push for transgenderism? It is a reasonable demand that doesn’t require the tortured logic of biological sex is a social construct.
3. How can we help those who face transgender struggles?