Reflecting on Asian American studies through the teachings of Grace Lee Boggs...
[Editor’s note: Once a year, a guest columnist will be part of Rhizomes to encourage scholars in education and Asian American Studies at California State University, Northridge, where the columnist...
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“EVERY time a chant is offered, you have to think of the chant as a form of praising—it is the form of prayer. That’s first because the spiritual essence, the mana gives us the power to chant....
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“In the same way, when we ponder deeply how God has touched our lives in so many amazing ways—by freeing us from slavery to our sins, giving us hope, healing our minds and bodies, changing our hard...
View ArticleDepleted middle class depletes America’s economy
“SLAVERY was a violation of the Declaration’s “majestic interpretation of the economy of the Universe,” allowed by the founders because it was already among us, but placed by them in the course of...
View ArticleSolar eclipse 2017: Visible display of God’s grandeur and unity of celestial...
“GOD is always inviting us to climb higher, to go further, to draw closer. No matter how many possessions we may have, no possession in the world can equal the treasure of deep union with the God who...
View ArticleThe reform of health care through healthy eating
“SPENDING on food and health together make up more than 30 percent of the U.S. economy, yet our politicians and civic leaders aren’t discussing these important issues. They may bicker about how to...
View ArticleDACA’s roller coaster of sadness, uncertainty, misinformation and hope for...
“We don’t really get close to others if our relationship is made up of unending hunky-dory-ness. It is the hard times, the painful times, the sadness and the grief that knit us more closely together....
View ArticleDaring greatly to have Fil-Am representation in the state Assembly
“When we treat people as objects, we dehumanize them. We do something terrible to their souls and to our own. Martin Buber, an Austrian-born philosopher, wrote about the differences between an I-it...
View ArticleWhen ‘Tao Po! We Are Here’ became a topic for community discussion on...
“We’re totally bamboozled,” [Karen] Tongson said. “We think everybody’s putting on a show. And we forget the show actually has real consequences.” – Interview with Christopher Ingraham, Washington...
View ArticleMia McLeod and Leonard Mercado: Their journey toward a business and life...
“When you go the second mile—give more to your work, are more than thoughtful and kind to people, become a joyous giver and a gracious receiver—suddenly life takes on new meaning. On the second mile,...
View ArticleBernandita Panganiban Avendaño: Life of overflowing love, joy and God’s...
February 18, 1952 – October 1, 2017 “ELDERS are the jewels of humanity that have been mined from the Earth, cut in the rough, then buffed and polished by the stonecutter’s art into precious gems that...
View Article“Legacy in the Making”: 41st Annual Asian Business Association Awards Banquet
[Full disclosure: Cora Oriel, president of the Asian Journal, is the vice chair of the Asian Business Association’s board of directors] Cora Oriel (the Asian Business Association’s Vice Chair) and...
View Article4th Fil-Am International Book Festival: Its significance in stoking vibrant...
“It is in our literature that our history is kept safe from revisions. For literature is our true memory, our country’s memory, the world’s memory of us. If we do not write our stories, who will? If...
View ArticleShepherd of his slaughtered sheep: Their stories entered our bodies
“Using a lot of primary sources and interviews, [Raissa] Robles wrote an account of the atrocities that happened during the Marcos Years that is different from what was written before. She not only...
View ArticleCan silk fibers and threads talk peace beyond Marawi?
“The artisan, therefore, whether amateur or “professional,” gets impromptu art instruction and a chance to promptly correct mistakes. Clearly, to the natives who have a predilection for decoration and...
View ArticleWho will be the guardians of US democracy?
“The greatest gift that our founders gave to us is the freedom to chase our individual dreams through our sweat and toil and imagination, and the imperative to strive together, as well, to achieve a...
View ArticleCan teaching arts make miracles?
“You may say, ‘But I am only human.’ This is the understatement of your life. You are not only human – you are also divine in potential. The fulfillment of all your goals and aspirations in life...
View ArticleFr. Archie Guiriba: Exposing us to our collective truth
“Bring the healing power of God’s grace to everyone in need, to stay close to the marginalized, to be shepherds living with the smell of the sheep.” – Pope Francis Propagators of the good news In a...
View ArticleMon David’s integrity of heart in his Mark Murphy’s tribute
[Disclosure: The writer is a wedding godmother to Nicole and Jake Yalong.] “The process is the person. And if you do not allow the dictates of formula to rule over you, your Indio-genius blossoms.” –...
View ArticleDes Rêves: Cinematic motifs resonate at album’s Southern California launch
“The task of [a] composer belongs to the realm of the acoustical world. We often forget that this world is composed of silence, as well as sounds, and that the former are sometimes more important than...
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