My Portion and My Cup: Help from Our Risen Savior (Ps 16)
Read Psalm 16: A Miktam of David. 1 Preserve me, O God, for in you I take refuge. 2 I say to the LORD, "You are my Lord; I have no…
Faith or Flight: Help When You’re Running Scared (Ps 11)
Read Psalm 11: To the choirmaster. Of David. 1 In the LORD I take refuge; how can you say to my soul, "Flee like a bird to your mountain, 2 for…
The Power of Words: Help for the Moral Minority (Ps 12)
Read Psalm 12: To the choirmaster: according to The Sheminith. A Psalm of David. Save, O LORD, for the godly one is gone; for the faithful have vanished from among…
The Cost of Resistance
Supporting the Nikkei during the internment was unpopular and viewed as anti-American. Rev. W. Sherman Burgoyne served as minister of the Asbury Methodist Church in Hood River, Oregon where approximately…
Voices of Protest
Nikkei Voices Rev. Daisuke Kitagawa spoke out against wartime injustices, asserting that his fellow Episcopal churchmen “opposed evacuation as a matter of principle, but nothing was done beyond that. .…
A Shameful Silence
Prior to World War II, pacifist groups like the Church of the Brethren, the Mennonites, the FOR (an interfaith pacifist group committed to social justice), and the Religious Society of…
The King of Glory: Help When You Are Tempted to Seize Control (Ps 24)
Read Psalm 24: A Psalm of David. 1 The earth is the LORD's and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein, 2 for he has founded it upon…
Afghanistan, Vietnam, and the Sovereignty of God
Last week’s horrific images and accounts of America’s military retreat from Afghanistan raised many comparisons with the Fall of Saigon in the 1970’s. My wife was less than a year…
To a Place Unknown: Evacuation
Despite an uncertain future, Japanese American Christians faced their evacuation with a faith defined by the author of Hebrews: “Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction…
Our Good Shepherd: Help in the Valley of Death (Ps 23)
Read Psalm 23: A Psalm of David 1 The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. 2 He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still…