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October 20, 2020
Newly Released Book Building Bridges Between Culture Wars
In every election cycle Americans evaluate what matters to them. Whether you are part of the Latino vote, the women vote or the African American vote, cultures across state lines in every city in our country are being tested. It doesn’t matter if you want to defund the police or bring back Big 10 Football or you’re currently marching in a protest. Every American voting this year at the ballot box is facing a culture war, and a decision of our conscience.
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Slow Brewing Tea builds a bridge between worlds. It shows firsthand how to find common ground and build together. Bestselling Author Randy Loubier states, “The book started out as an epic spiritual adventure but shows one man’s journey into an entirely different culture. Through that process, we can all learn.”
The transition of American culture is ever changing. The role of the police officer, once a respected position in our town’s streets, is getting completely redefined. So are the cultures of our own neighborhoods where we live. It takes becoming a brave soul to put out your own yard signs to avoid an argument with someone walking by.
Slow Brewing Tea helps shape how to enter an unknown culture and build an effective bridge of understanding: walking in love not hate, listening before we think we know an answer, adapting to a pre-existing culture and building relationship.
Listening before speaking may produce peace in our streets than riots and hate. Being a bridge builder, like Isaiah in Slow Brewing Tea took many visits, many conversations and even many intense moments, but in the end Isaiah’s path took a different turn for the good.
In this election cycle, how important are the current culture wars? Becoming a bridge builder or bridge destroyer?
The current street terrorism is said by local authorities to “send a message” of the escalated culture wars coming to our own front door. It was the Christians who peacefully abolished the slave trade (1700’s), peacefully organized and ran the underground railroad (1800’s) and peacefully protested segregation (1900’s).
What Will God Have Christians Do Now?
What will God have Christians do in the 2000’s to build new intercultural bridges? The Bible says “God is love.” So, His answer must include love—His kind of love—the kind of love that doesn’t agree with human-ness but has a committed stance toward wanting the best for ALL our neighbors.
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"Religion Shouldn't Tell You How To Live!"
Religion vs. JesusItsuki is the mentor to the main character, Isaiah, in Slow Brewing Tea. During the decades of Itsuki’s mentorship, he quietly and patiently endures Isaiah’s attacks against Christianity. One of Isaiah’s problems with Christianity is the topic of “religion.” It is abhorrent to Isaiah that religion tells you how you should live your life.
Itsuki points out that while every religion has standards they recommend people follow, Jesus’ viewpoint and calling to His followers is radically different. For example Taoism, a religion they had extensively discussed, has the Three Treasures of Taoism which set out ethical/moral standards for those interested in following The Tao.
In one of his many poignant statements Itsuki says,
“Religion tells you what you should do. Jesus empowers you to do it.”
What is your perspective? Are you as frustrated as Isaiah with “religion?” What do you think of Itsuki’s claim?
About Slow Brewing Tea
Slow Brewing Tea is a love story and a spiritual adventure. It is a biblically accurate novel that chronicles a shy, abused, anti-Christian airman (Isaiah) as he seeks love and the Tao (the way, Taoism) in the mountains of Japan. He falls in love and finds an old man (Itsuki) who teaches him Taoist principles that lead him eventually to the way, the truth, and the life. Yet, it will take another thirty years of living in hard, shallow, and thorny soils before he is finally ready to let God transform him into good soil. As a slow brewing tea Isaiah is finally ready for the truth to be manifested in magnificent love and abundant joy—as a Christian and a husband.
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October 17, 2020
Belief vs. Reality
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October 13, 2020
Newly Released Book Building Bridges Between Culture Wars
In every election cycle Americans evaluate what matters to them. Whether you are part of the Latino vote, the women vote or the African American vote, cultures across state lines in every city in our country are being tested. It doesn’t matter if you want to defund the police or bring back Big 10 Football or you’re currently marching in a protest. Every American voting this year at the ballot box is facing a culture war, and a decision of our conscience.
Slow Brewing Tea builds a bridge between worlds. It shows firsthand how to find common ground and build together. Bestselling Author Randy Loubier states, “The book started out as an epic spiritual adventure but shows one man’s journey into an entirely different culture. Through that process, we can all learn.”
The transition of American culture is ever changing. The role of the police officer, once a respected position in our town’s streets, is getting completely redefined. So are the cultures of our own neighborhoods where we live. It takes becoming a brave soul to put out your own yard signs to avoid an argument with someone walking by.
Slow Brewing Tea helps shape how to enter an unknown culture and build an effective bridge of understanding: walking in love not hate, listening before we think we know an answer, adapting to a pre-existing culture and building relationship.
Listening before speaking may produce peace in our streets than riots and hate. Being a bridge builder, like Isaiah in Slow Brewing Tea took many visits, many conversations and even many intense moments, but in the end Isaiah’s path took a different turn for the good.
In this election cycle, how important are the current culture wars? Becoming a bridge builder or bridge destroyer?
The current street terrorism is said by local authorities to “send a message” of the escalated culture wars coming to our own front door. It was the Christians who peacefully abolished the slave trade (1700’s), peacefully organized and ran the underground railroad (1800’s) and peacefully protested segregation (1900’s).
What will God have Christians do in the 2000’s to build new intercultural bridges? The Bible says “God is love.” So, His answer must include love—His kind of love—the kind of love that doesn’t agree with human-ness but has a committed stance toward wanting the best for ALL our neighbors.
September 11, 2020
Religion vs. Jesus
Itsuki is the mentor to the main character, Isaiah, in Slow Brewing Tea.
Slow Brewing Tea is a love story and a spiritual adventure. It is a biblically accurate novel that chronicles a shy, abused, anti-Christian airman (Isaiah) as he seeks love and the Tao (the way, Taoism) in the mountains of Japan. He falls in love and finds an old man (Itsuki) who teaches him Taoist principles that lead him eventually to the way, the truth, and the life. Yet, it will take another thirty years of living in hard, shallow, and thorny soils before he is finally ready to let God transform him into good soil. As a slow brewing tea Isaiah is finally ready for the truth to be manifested in magnificent love and abundant joy—as a Christian and a husband.
During the decades of Itsuki’s mentorship, he quietly and patiently endures Isaiah’s attacks against Christianity. One of Isaiah’s problems with Christianity is the topic of “religion.” It is abhorrent to Isaiah that that religion tells you how you should live your life.
Itsuki points out that while every religion has standards they recommend people follow, Jesus’ viewpoint and calling to His followers is radically different. For example Taoism, a religion they had extensively discussed, has the Three Treasures of Taoism which set out ethical/moral standards for those interested in following The Tao.
In one of his many poignant statements Itsuki says, “Religion tells you what you should do. Jesus empowers you to do it.”
What is your perspective? Are you as frustrated as Isaiah with “religion?” What do you think of Itsuki’s claim?
