Happy 1900th anniversary to Hadrian’s Wall! Borders, frontiers and walls, marking the edges of our property, kingdoms, countries, empires, our world ~ they’re as much part of the modern world as they were in ancient times. Where they relate to … Continue reading Reimagining Our Borders
Published this week by the Church Mission Society, my latest link letter, click on the link below… As you’ll have read in my link letter above, I’m preparing for my ‘home leave’ in the UK, so I’m busy saying goodbye to … Continue reading CMS Link Letter #86: UK Calling!
Published last week by the Church Mission Society, my latest link letter, click on the link below… Continue reading CMS Link Letter #85: Happy New Year of the Tiger! 🐯
Published today by the Church Mission Society, my latest link letter, click on the link below… The title, The Soul (Still) Trembles is taken from the exhibition by Shiota Chiharu running at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum until Sunday October 17. … Continue reading The Soul Still Trembles …. CMS Link Letter #84
‘The Soul Trembles’… This is us, facing a new situation in Taiwan, our collective soul trembling as a Covid-19 surge in Greater Taipei has suddenly wrenched us from our complacency that all was well. These last few days have seen … Continue reading The Soul Trembles 顫動的靈魂…. Update from Taiwan
Published yesterday by the Church Mission Society, my latest link letter, click on the link below… And the cherry blossom, which was just starting when I was writing the letter 2 weeks ago, is now in full bloom in northern Taiwan and up in the mountains (see my previous post here) ~ spring is coming! I’m in Pingtung, south Taiwan, for Chinese New Year, staying with friends from St. Mark’s Church. This is after their New Year Thanksgiving Service yesterday, getting ready for lunch. They’re so friendly and sociable ~ we spent the whole day together! Happy 牛 Year everyone! Continue reading CMS Link Letter #82
Published yesterday by the Church Mission Society, my latest link letter, click on the link below… The letter was actually sent off to CMS on October 14 for processing, and much seems to have happened since then. As we await the results of the US presidential election and as the UK goes into lockdown again, there’s a lot going on. A little oasis in all that’s going on is to be found at Rainbow Village, Taichung 彩虹眷村, as high-rise buildings start to go up all around… Let me just cheer you all up a little with some photos I took there … Continue reading CMS Link Letter #81 (and Rainbow Village 彩虹眷村!)
Published yesterday by the Church Mission Society, my latest link letter, click on the link below.. I sent the link letter to CMS on June 11, before I had heard of the ‘Black Lives Matter Solidarity Rally’ being held the following Saturday, June 13, in the 228 Peace Park, Taipei outside the National Taiwan Museum – that’s the building in the photos below, built in classic Renaissance style by the Japanese Colonial Government in 1908. I went the rally with Chia-Lin, one of our church interns, and we both felt it was very moving to join in. Now for the … Continue reading CMS Link Letter #80
Published yesterday by the Church Mission Society, my latest link letter, click on the link below… I wrote the original letter on January 22, just before Chinese New Year, but the corona virus situation has developed so fast since then that the letter is already vastly out of date. So I have sent a prayer request to CMS for this week’s Prayerspace email, as follows: “Catherine Lee requests prayer for the consecration of the new Bishop of Taiwan, Lennon Yuan-Rung Chang, on Saturday February 22 at St. John’s Cathedral, Taipei. Taiwan has 18 confirmed cases of the corona virus, and … Continue reading CMS Link Letter #79
Catherine Lee 