This summer my friends and colleagues in ministry Albert Chu and Jason Byassee and I published a book based on interviews with Asian Christian lay people in Vancouver. This research project flowed out of an earlier work entitled Better Than Brunch: Missional Churches in Cascadia. Jason and I completed the field work for that in…
Crystal Hao was a student in the United States, far away from her homeland of China, when she saw two million migrant workers vacating Beijing on the news. It was 2018, and the mass evictions were part of a crackdown on illegal housing that began the year before. “The government thought [the migrant workers] were…
“Why does your food smell so bad?”“Have you ever eaten dog?”“Where are you from? Where are you really from?”“No offense, but I don’t like being around China-men; they make me nervous.” Despite being born and raised in Canada, I’ve heard comments like these my whole life. As an Asian male, I’m a “perpetual foreigner,” always…
“Canada and Canadians have deep ties with Hong Kong. We feel the pain and suffering and uncertainty many people in Hong Kong are experiencing now. The gospel calls us to grieve with those who grieve, to bear witness to the pain and needs of others, to show solidarity with and hospitality to the needy, and…
Maybe you’ve seen the “I stand with farmers” bumper stickers or the tweets from celebrities like Rihanna. Maybe you drove past the hundreds of people protesting in Vancouver last December or the thousands in Toronto. Maybe more recently the protests in Brampton or Edmonton have stopped traffic for you. Or, like me, you came across…
“We’re not going into lockdown, but Wuhan is being very cautious and taking measures that are eerily similar to what happened a year ago,” Rebecca Franks says. “Now some gates are being locked again to control the flow of people into and out of our apartment complex. No new cases here. Just a very precautious…
These days when our focus is narrowed in on our own vicinity and the ever-changing pandemic in our own city and province, we want to invite you to walk in someone else’s shoes for a change. To accompany our February story “Wuhan, One Year Later” we asked Crystal, a photographer who lives in Southwest China,…
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