Liuan Huska

2 months ago | sojo.net | Liuan Huska

OUR EYES MET as I walked up the concrete stairs from the Chicago Water Taxi’s Michigan Avenue stop. She held up a cardboard sign, her hand on a stroller with two young girls in puffy teal jackets inside. Alejandra, as I’ll call her, had arrived in the city with her family two weeks earlier, after a grueling journey from Venezuela by bus, car, plane, and on foot through the Darién Gap.

Nov 14, 2024 | sojo.net | Liuan Huska

A LITTLE OVER a year ago, members of Ann Arbor’s Zion Lutheran Church in Michigan stood on an L-shaped plot bordering their church garden. Those 800 square feet of ordinary lawn were on the cusp of transformation, about to become the source of Zion’s own Communion bread.

Nov 14, 2024 | sojo.net | Liuan Huska

I WRITE THIS two months before the November 2024 U.S. presidential election, knowing that it will land with you, dear readers, after all the votes are in and the course for the next four years is likely set. My insides lurch thinking about the potential outcomes. We are in the middle of the decisive decade for large-scale action to mitigate the worsening effects of climate change. Going in one direction or the other feels, sometimes, like a turn toward life or death for the planet.

Aug 22, 2024 | sojo.net | Liuan Huska

THE THREE SHORT rows of folding chairs for the public were not full, but this was the highest attendance I had seen at a city council meeting. I was curious how the mayor and council members would respond this time. Community members had showed up to support a couple fighting what they felt was an unfair $20,000 building code violation fine. After some preamble, the floor opened for public comment.

Aug 7, 2024 | christiancentury.org | Claire Giangrave |Brandon Ambrosino |Dawn Araujo-Hawkins |Liuan Huska

Women have fewer high-level leadership opportunities in Asian American churches than in other churches, according to a survey from the Innovative Space for Asian American Christianity. The survey also found that men and women in Asian American churches disagree as to why women are missing in upper leadership.