Category: Asian Faith
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Resurrecting Rough Riders
The resurrection of Jesus is going to be remembered this weekend. I figure it’s about time to resurrect this blog. So why use Rough Riders as a title? In 1994 a song called “Regulate” was released by Warren G. and Nate Dogg. In a tale of loyalty and respect, Nate Dogg raps about retaliating on…
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The Meeting
Sorry for the incredibly long absence. I haven’t posted in months. No excuses, except one. I’m terribly inconsistent. I’m not sure what this is below; Spoken Word, Poetry, Improv, a Rap? The first stanza just kept repeating over and over in my mind one day, so I wrote it down. The rest just flowed as…
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Asians Shouldn’t Believe in Santa
Holidays are much too over-rated in the West. I think my disappointment began with Thanksgiving. In elementary school we traced turkeys with our hands, had mashed potatoes, gravy and cornbread in the cafeteria and learned about pilgrims on field trips – what better place to see pilgrims than the Old Sturbridge Village in Massachusetts. All…
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Got Sticky Rice?
Here’s some food for thought as you sit on the toilet. Do most Asians eat rice? Heck yea! Do Mexicans eat beans? Uh…orale holmes! Do Blacks eat fried chicken, collard greens and grape Kool-aid? Word up. Everyone culture has its’ soul food (except Whites maybe, what is it by the way…bread, potatoes or cheeseburgers?). Some…
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Choosing a Blog Title
The Bloggings of a Crazy-Loving, Missional, South-East Asian Gamer with Links to Extremism. That was my original choice for a blog title. It described all that I wanted to communicate and some. On crazy-loving because we were intrinsically created to experience a deep, profound, and insane love from our Creator…Yahweh, the God of heaven…
The Asian Rough Rider 