Posts from January 2021

No Survivors

January 26, 2021
Julia Cuan
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Dearly Beloved, In what’s believed to be a first, no survivors or veterans of World War II attended the annual Pearl Harbor Day event in Hawaii on December 7, 2020, due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. December 7 is National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, commemorating the day when Japanese forces launched a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941,…

Inauguration of Hope

January 20, 2021
Julia Cuan
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As I’m writing this update, Mr. Joe Biden has been sworn in as President of the United States and is speaking to the nation in his inaugural speech. It is a rousing address full of calls for unity, promises of prosperity, and HOPE for the future. That’s exactly what an “inauguration” is supposed to do……

The Unrestricted Gospel

January 13, 2021
Julia Cuan
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Every year, the National Geographic Society sponsors a geography contest called The National Geographic Bee, where students in the fourth through eighth grades compete to see whose geographic knowledge will reign supreme. Here are a few of the questions the students have been asked. (If you get all three right with no outside help, I’ll buy you…

Do you know what today is?

January 8, 2021
Julia Cuan
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Dearly Beloved, Do you know what today is? January 6, 2021, of course, but according to the Christian calendar it is “Epiphany.” You can read the historic account of the Maji traveling to worship God incarnate in Bethlehem in Matthew 2:1-12. They brought their gifts, but more than that, they opened their hearts to the…