Last night I watched Forrest Gump in its entirely for the first time in many years. I’d forgotten how good a movie it is. Rewatching […]
Author: Danny Chai
I found this Radiolab piece on the difficulty of moderating content on Facebook fascinating. Facebook really faces an impossible task – people don’t actually know […]
Ethnicity, Race, The Definition of “White”
Adrian’s book The Minority Experience is really good and thought-provoking. It brings up some interesting points about race. For one, that there is a difference […]
Crazy Rich Asians
Spoilers, obvi. Wow, Crazy Rich Asians affected me way more than I anticipated – I had a flood of complicated feelings and thoughts while watching […]
Godliness, why we love Jesus
I had a deeply thought-provoking and moving conversation with my mom a couple weeks ago that I’m still thinking about. She gave me permission to […]
I Am Not Korean
I don’t know what it is, but there’s something about my demeanor that makes people think I’m not Korean. It’s happened too many times to […]
St. Augustine on Evil
Book VII of St. Augustine’s Confessions is incredible. It’s astounding to me how much he thinks like a modern man – in particularly, how his […]
Derek Webb’s Fingers Crossed
Derek Webb’s Fingers Crossed came out a year ago. I feel like writing about it because I think it’s the most disturbed I’ve ever felt […]
“A system which was so economically profitable must be morally justifiable”
Last quotation from Strength To Love that struck me. He’s talking about slavery and segregation, and how people let it go on for so long, […]
The church must be the conscience of the state
Here’s another quotation from MLK Jr’s Strength To Love that I found relevant for the evangelical church today: The Greek Church in Russia allied itself […]