Standing before a historic Bible at the Bishop Museum stirs complex questions of faith, cultural loss, and the Presbyterian roots woven into Hawaii’s past.

Escaping family stress for a night at the museum turns into a deep dive through ancient gods, whaling ghosts, and the modern Honolulu skyline.

Non-Asian friends look at this family dynamic and see an open door. They do not see the invisible, steel cables of a cultural machine that has been running for thousands of years.

It’s an in-your-face visual of Christian Nationalism.

A simpler response, delivered with steady patience rather than white-knuckled panic, is frequently enough to quiet the noise.

The mayor talks a big game on affordable housing bond deals, but when your lease renewal goes through the roof, good intentions don't pay the landlord. With heavyweights circling the Fifth Floor, here is why this undecided voter is starting to sweat.

Zach Lahn framed his remarks around defending Iowa's culture, saying the Church has been the bulwark against what Democrats are asking for: more protections for minorities, more social programs, and taxing folks to pay for them.

Why can archiving be so expensive? Preservation means needing special materials.

I have attached three book group discussion guides below. One is for a faith context. The other is secular. And the third is for an LGBTQ book group and HIV/AIDS-focused study.

One of the most important books I’ve ever read was by Barbara Kingsolver in her Appalachian adaptation of “David Copperfield.”

The tradition of Lei Day started back in the late 1920s because of a guy named Don Blanding. He was a poet who wrote for the Honolulu Star-Bulletin daily newspaper and realized that while everyone else in the world was doing May Day with maypoles and ribbons, Hawaii had something much better to celebrate.

As I grew older and my roots in the Christian faith deepened into Church leadership, I realized that the fleet and the Gospel have been in a long conversation all along.

These forms of bias go against the Gospel of Jesus Christ. For a long time, the Church has been part of systems that hurt people based on their race, gender, gender identity, who they love, or how their brains work. We want to change that. We believe the Holy Spirit calls us to fix these wrongs and work for the safety and dignity of everyone.

I had a dream last night. I couldn’t help but digest it all as I walked through the Art Institute of Chicago today.

Arise, you prisoners of the screen, the digital serfs of a hollow age.

The room is a cross section of the neighborhood, a mix of blue-collar young adults and middle-aged men ready to unwind for Super Bowl weekend. And retired folks just enjoying a night out.

While we’re busy rolling our eyes at a city sticker or a 9.5% corporate income tax rate, the global economy is looking at Illinois as one of the most formidable powers on the planet.

For a long time, my instinct has been to push hope as a shield against the world. But there comes a point where the gap between a hopeful sermon and a painful reality is just too wide.

One of my favorite professors gave me a piece of advice that stayed with me: He told me never to raise a word against Buddhism until I had actually read and understood its Scripture. I took that challenge to heart. After reading those texts, I never found a reason to speak against them.

With the official dissolution of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a vital piece of the American story is being tucked away into the archives.