This summer has been hot and humid. As the nation celebrates the 250th anniversary of the United States, New York City’s mayor announced a proposal to open five government-run grocery stores across the city. The announcement stirred memories among many people who had fled communist countries to build new lives in the United States—the land […]
Tag: American dream
September 11 marked the tenth year of my arrival in the United States and the beginning of my American Dream. That day also is indelibly etched in the collective consciousness of the nation – On September 11, 2001, 19 radical Islamic terrorists hijacked four fuel-loaded US commercial airplanes bound for West Coast destinations and slammed […]
Twenty-one centuries ago, Jesus said: “Then you will know the Truth, and the Truth will set you free.” Recently, a newspaper published by China’s Communist Party “declared” that Western values are a “ticket to hell”. Ironically, I found it is just the opposite. I learned American values from my American education; I found my first […]
“In China, Christians suffer all kinds of hardship and even persecution, just because they want to have their own church and freely practice their religion.” December 14, 2014, was a special Sunday for my church – New Life Assembly of God. People from the university town congregated in the temple for the last Sunday service […]