Professionally, I've an applied materials research scientist, a non-profit administrator, and, most recently, an academic librarian. Spiritually, I've been a member of Chinese Christian Church and Center in Philadelphia since 1989 serving in multiple capacities, including worship leader, Joy Fellowship sponsor, church administrator (2000-2005), Deacon of the Christian Education Committee, Deacon of the Youth Ministry Committee, and 11th and 12th grade Sunday School Teacher.
• Just a part of life • [2 MIN READ] Music services with their suggestion feeds make it possible for David Bowie’s 1971 classic to be known to those who continue to come long after that year. I was in single digits of years old when that first got radio play. Yesterday, I turned single … More Changes (#215: 2023’07’26’W)
• Again • [1½ MIN READ] Wandering around the neighborhood in mid-July, I witnessed Growler Adelaide planting her foot firmly on a spotted lanternfly nymph, thereby drawing its brief life to an abrupt end. We’ve all had it in us to do the same since they started populating our Jenkintown and environs in 2020. Have … More Those Hideously Beautiful Creatures (#214: 2023’07’19’W)
• Whom I happen to know better than anyone else • [1 MIN READ] The more socially outward among us know how to focus on other people. And I don’t mean extroverts here. I mean those who can keep attention on other people over themselves. I just returned from 12 days in native Alaska during … More All About Me (#213: 2023’07’12’W)
• The Growlers, off-road • [1 MIN READ] Jenkintown Adam (as opposed to Terrapin Adam, the latter being named after the University of Maryland mascot, the former being named after the place of residence) has been advocating a new and different running route around the Jenkintown Running Company. The backyard route is a variation of … More Happy Trails (#212: 2023’06’28’W)
• As a topic on this website • [3 MIN READ] Underneath all of my writing is an angle on the topic at hand. Website-creation tools like WordPress make it possible to organize such content. These organizational tools have names like Categories and Tags. It’s up to me as the website creator to decide what … More A Composition of Faith
• The Mathematics of 4 Co-working Brothers • [3 MIN READ] When Ruby Wang (1932-2018) died, she gave custody of her paintings to us, her 4 sons. Although we knew her death was imminent, we had theretofore little need to consider the inevitable. Knowing her days were drawing short from the complications of pancreatic cancer … More AB≠CD
• The names of Ruby H. Wang • [3 MIN READ] Ruby H. Wang was the name so many people identified with her. It was the name on her social security card, her driver’s license, and her other legal documents. It was the name she most consistently used to sign her paintings because she lived … More All for One
And as they fled before Israel, while they were going down the ascent of Beth-horon, the Lord threw down large stones from heaven on them as far as Azekah, and they died. There were more who died because of the hailstones than the sons of Israel killed with the sword. (JOS 10:11 ESV) During CCC&C’s … More A Devotional Blog for Young Ahtna Christians
Wrangell Mountain Bible Conference has been running since 1951 (or thereabout—I don’t have the specifics). It is an annual conference that involves a dozen or so small churches in and surrounding the Copper River Valley of south-central Alaska. Some of those churches are predominantly native Alaskan in membership, others are non-native, European-descended American. Until Philadelphia’s … More Commitment
A look back at the start of CCC&C in Native Alaska and at the start of this blog. … More Steps to a Vision
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