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"Hospitality Brings God's Blessings" (Danny Bawibikthawng) "Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares." (Heb. 13:2, ESV) Introduction As a church, we are about to host a conference involving eight churches from different states. Many pastors, leaders, and church members will travel long distances to come to our city. This is a wonderful opportunity and privilege that God has given us. Hosting God's people is not simply a task. It is a ministry. It is an act of worship. It is one of the ways we honor God. When I think about hospitality, I remember my childhood in Myanmar. My mother used to buy dried meat and keep it in a place where we children could not reach it. Whenever we asked why we could not eat it, she would say, "We are saving it for guests." As children, we thought that was unfair. Why should guests receive something we ourselves could not enjoy? But as I grew older, I realized my mo...

Unity or Ruin: The Chin Revolution and the Urgent Need for National Unity  (Danny Bawibikthawng)  The revolution of the Chin people against the Myanmar military regime is one of the most painful and heroic chapters in modern Chin history. Villages have been burned. Churches have been destroyed. Thousands of innocent civilians have fled into forests and foreign countries. Young men and women who once dreamed of education, family, and peaceful futures now carry rifles in defense of their people.  As a Chin from Myanmar serving among immigrant communities in the U.S., I write not as a politician or military strategist, but as someone who deeply loves his people and longs to see justice, freedom, and lasting peace for our nation. I support the revolution because silence before evil is not neutrality. Silence can become participation in injustice. Yet at the same time, I fear that our greatest danger may not only come from the Myanmar military regime, but also from our inabili...

  Book Review:  Fat Church-Claiming a Gospel of Fat Liberation  by  Anastasia E. B. Kidd By Danny Bawibikthawng     Anastasia E. B. Kidd’s  Fat Church: Claiming a Gospel of Fat Liberation  is a prophetic, courageous, and deeply compassionate work that reimagines what it means to proclaim the gospel in the twenty-first century. Written with both academic precision and pastoral sensitivity, Kidd exposes one of the most hidden injustices within Christianity: the moralization of body size and the church’s complicity in promoting anti-fat bias. Her central argument is that the gospel’s liberating message has too often been reduced to a spiritualized and body-denying theology that fails to affirm the sacredness of all human embodiment. Kidd’s theological reflections invite believers to recover a holistic gospel where the love of God affirms every body, not as an afterthought, but as the very site of divine grace.   Summary and Core Argument   ...

  Honoring Those Who Serve in Silence, Poverty, and Hardship in Myanmar (A Reflection on Pastor Appreciation Month) Danny Bawibikthawng Every year when Pastor Appreciation Month arrives, my heart turns to those faithful servants of God laboring quietly in the countryside and small villages of Myanmar, those who continue to preach, shepherd, and care for souls with very limited financial support, in the midst of poverty, hardship, and uncertainty. We all face struggles and anxieties in ministry, but the burdens carried by pastors in those rural places are often heavier and lonelier than those of pastors in cities or well-supported congregations abroad. While some churches celebrate this month with gifts, words of encouragement, and appreciation, many humble servants of God in Myanmar do not even have the means to buy proper clothing or food for themselves and their children. Yet they serve the same Lord with the same passion, often with tears, unseen and unthanked by the world. Man...