by Michael Cheuk | Jul 30, 2020 | Opinion
Charlottesville, Virginia, was buzzing in 2017 with talk about the possibility of removing Confederate monuments in the city. At first, I was ambivalent. On the one hand, I had no interest in valorizing Confederate heroes like Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall”...
by Michael Cheuk | Jun 16, 2020 | Opinion
Editor’s note: On Sunday, June 7, the Charlottesville Clergy Collective livestreamed an interfaith service, mourning the deaths from COVID-19 and racism. The following is an article based on an edited excerpt from that service. We are the Charlottesville Clergy...
by Michael Cheuk | Oct 23, 2019 | Opinion
Educating Christians about racial justice is one of the most important tasks in the life of the white American church. It is important because racial injustice is not just “the flavor of the month” on a menu of issues that the church could address. As Jim Wallis has...
by Michael Cheuk | Aug 1, 2019 | Christian Nationalism, Opinion
Hundreds of tiki torch-carrying, Nazi flag-waving, KKK-sympathizing white nationalists/supremacists terrorized University of Virginia students and the city of Charlottesville on Aug. 11-12, 2017, capturing the world’s attention. In the days and weeks afterward, many...
by Michael Cheuk | Jun 10, 2019 | Opinion
I was born in Hong Kong; my family moved to the United States in 1973 in anticipation of Hong Kong reverting back to the Republic of China in 1997. In my desire to assimilate, I neglected my own language and culture in order to be accepted in white society. I still...