Writing & Composing

My 1980s vintage IBM AT keyboard, still going strong

About My Ancestors and Family
Essay: “Letter Home”

Eulogy for Aunt Carol

About Oakland
Essays: East Bay Monthly Triptych

Essay: “The Giving Trees” (long version, reflections on Oakland’s redwoods)

Essay: “When It Was New” (BART history and hopes)

Essay: “The Masudas: the Family Behind an Iconic Image“

About Christian Faith
Essay: “LBJ, MLK, and the Passing of Time (Radix Magazine, 2025)

Essay: “What’s Wrong With the World” (New College Berkeley Blog2014)

Essay: “Learning to Bring My Body to Worship” (Inheritance Magazine, 2017)

Essay: “Prepared for Good Works” (New College Berkley Blog, 2022)

About Christian Worship
“Hats Off?” (KQED-FM “Perspectives” essay, 2024)

Book: Worship on the Way (2012)

Article: “Shared Meaning and Significance in Congregational Singing” (The Hymn, 1997) Download
Article: “Seeing Jesus through East Asian Eyes” (Radix Magazine, 2014)Download

Articles in the Encyclopedia of Christianity in the United States, ed. George Thomas Kurian and
Mark A. Lamport (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield), 2016
Tithing and Giving (<-I’m especially proud of this one)
Liturgical Furnishings (“finial” not “final”–argh!)
Metalware
Nondenominational Church
Ethnicity Debates
Chinese Christian Mission
James Chuck

Music
Song: “Never Not In Need of Grace”

Song: “The LORD Bless You”

Hymns: Asian American texts

Cantata, “Christians Be Joyful” (compiled and directed)

Fun Songs

Poetry
Oak Leaves 1979 (Oakland High School literary annual)

“Dear Oakland” – a love letter (2011)

Master’s Thesis
The Uniqueness of the Creation Marriage in the Eden Narrative in its Ancient Near Eastern Literary Context (Dallas Theological Seminary, 1990)

Doctoral Dissertation
The Tension of Diglossia in Free and Liturgical Worship Renewal (Graduate Theological Union, 1997)