I read Karol Wojtyla’s Love and Responsibility back in 2016. It’s a philosophical work on the dignity of the human person, and how right relationship that ought to flow from treating people as people. As Pope John Paul II, he expounded on Love and Responsibility & delivered a series of…

Window #1 into my Asian family’s scarcity mindset. “Don’t throw that away! Just leave it on the counter!” My Grandmother corrects me from the next room, apparently able to see though walls with her x-ray vision. Kneeling down, inches away from the compost bin in the kitchen, I sigh heavily. …

Asian Christianity. Aside from Filipinos, it’s not a common pairing. Christianity has a very Eurocentric connotation in Asia. And while churches may have a bit of “Asian flair” (oooh, the lanterns), spaces are still rooted in predominantly Western history and architecture. Yet Asian communities — from Syria to India to…