Monday, October 13, 2025
Intelligence
Saturday, October 11, 2025
Friday, October 10, 2025
Eccl 1:14
Joy of Teaching
Wednesday, October 8, 2025
A new book project: Critical Mind in Interpretation and Preaching
The core questions are as follows:
1. What is understanding?
2. What involves the critical mind?
3. How does it relate to interpretation?
4. How does it relate to preaching?
Resurrecting Jesus
Tuesday, October 7, 2025
Public Speaking Ideas (lectures, seminars, speeches) for next few years
Time flies. I have ideas to engage the public. I welcome opportunities to speak on these topics. Please let me know if you’re interested.
1. Justice and the Parables of Jesus
This is the title of my forthcoming book. I want to engage the public—churches, schools, and other groups—in this timely topic. Justice is complex, and I propose retelling Jesus’ parables with an intentional focus on justice.
Sample Syllabus (seminary and Bible Study)Excerpts
The backbone of this book
2. The Lord’s Prayer and the Mind
A tentative title for another book I’m developing. I’ve made significant progress. This project offers a fresh analysis of the Lord’s Prayer grounded in an integrated view of the whole person.
3. Mindfulness and Luke’s Gospel
Also part of my ongoing book project. I aim to highlight the power of Luke’s Gospel through the lens of mindfulness. All we have is now. Joie de vivre.
Friday, October 3, 2025
Ancient Echoes: Contemporary Reflections on the Dao De Jing
The Dao De Jing is a book of wisdom that presents the path of life and is quite paradoxical, with a strong sense of criticism of power and authority. The linguistic symbols and rhetoric are challenging to the point of creating the illusion of seeing the world upside down, and they play a role in dismantling existing frameworks. In this sense of deconstruction, I am reminded of the modern deconstructionist philosopher Jacques Derrida. In a similar context to Laozi, Derrida sharply criticized literature produced in the socio-economic culture of political power and capitalism, absolute power and uniformity, imperialistic contradictions and various discriminations, and inequality in modern society, dreaming of a more just society. The world that Laozi dreams of is just like that. That is, in a contradictory human society, how should everyone, society, and nation live according to "natural order"? What is that path? The answer presented by Laozi is the path of nature. Then what is the path of nature? It is to become like water and dust. Desire, but do not desire according to your own will. All thoughts, attitudes, and actions that live according to these principles of life are the De, which means "virtue," mentioned in the Dao De Jing. Dao and Virtue are inseparable. It is like saying that a tree is known for its fruit. It is like the principle that a good seed falls to the ground, dies, and bears good fruit. Living according to the path of nature, living like water and dust, is knowing oneself, and such a person is a wise person. Such a person is also one who overcomes himself, and one who maintains gentleness like water.