Room for Improvement
Over the holidays, I had the pleasure of catching up with a dear friend from high school who lives in Oakland. In addition to journeying together as Taiwanese-Americans, husbands, fathers, and Christians over the years, we have compared notes on our experiences living in diverse and very left-leaning cities. I can't say we found much resolution in our most recent discussion, but I wanted to share a few thoughts that have continued to linger after. Our main lament was that it was difficult to approach let alone solve the plight of the growing lawlessness in some parts of our respective cities. It is not good, for cities and for the diverse inhabitants of those cities, when things like looting and gun violence and rampant homelessness are not only present but accommodated. These issues are intricate, nuanced, and engrained, and they involve people who deserve to be afforded a sense of shared humanity and common grace. We cannot not address these challenges. And it is hard enough to...
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