This issue is meant for the lonely, the different, for those who feel like they’ve always been sitting on the outside looking in. My hope is that you would know you are not alone in feeling alone, that many share your longing to belong.
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I remember watching a video clip of a man named Alton Sterling getting pinned down and then shot. I felt my stomach turn, unsure of how to react. I wanted to look away as the man lay in a growing pool of his own blood.
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As I thought about losses, I recalled my heart-stopping triathlon and some other losses which dealt with life and death. But my first big financial loss, at the age of sixteen, was a purple Toyota Celica GT that I loved.
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As foreigners in this world, we Christians ought to know better than anyone else what it feels like to long for a better country.
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When the second atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, it destroyed the largest Christian church in Japan, along with a Christian orphanage run by nuns, in a small area called Urakami. What can we learn from these historic events? What do they mean for us as American-Christians or Japanese-Christians living in the aftermath today?
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Have you ever felt out of place and unsure how to proceed? Maybe it was entering into a new social circle or going to a friend’s wedding or birthday without knowing anyone.
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