Amy Ji

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Friends I Never Asked For

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Growing up in church has its cons—everyone knows you, and everyone is watching your every action and ready to report you to your parents who serve as deacons, elders, or Sunday school teachers.
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How Taking Up the Cross Became A Daily Affair

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Eons ago, my would-be-mentor gave me a little card when she first invited me to join my church’s youth ministry leadership team. I do not recall what she wrote, but the quote on the card remains etched in my memory, some fifteen years on.
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Thriving in a Single-Parent Family

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My parents separated when my brother had just turned three and…
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Why I’m Mourning for the Sabah Quake Victims

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The reports on the victims of the recent Sabah earthquake have…
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The Superpower I Always Wanted to Have

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I found these truths difficult to accept as a young person. Each time I looked at the mirror, I saw an ugly person with an unacceptable figure and dull features. A lot of this thinking stemmed from incidents that happened during my childhood.
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What Hope is There Six Feet Under?

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To be honest, death really scares me, though not in the same…
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The “Giant” Beside Me

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During one of my church’s mission prayer focus sessions, I…
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Why I Finally Embraced Discipline

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I was a regular at detention in secondary school, so much so…