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I Got Into a Traffic Accident in a Black Area, and Nobody Played the ‘Race Card’

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July 8, 2020July 14, 2020
Author: Howard Ahmanson

A story in which my own experience in a black neighborhood convinced me that the hope for reconciliation is not dead It was late February, and I was on my way to a men’s retreat in Malibu, California.  And I […]

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A Croatia Travelogue

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September 27, 2019December 9, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Or more properly, a Dalmatia and Istria travelogue.  We arrived in Dubrovnik on August 19 and crossed into Italy on August 28.  It was a whirlwind, because it was compressed between an event in Edinburgh, Scotland, that we had to […]

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Should Transit-Oriented Housing be Limited to the Carless?

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June 11, 2019May 19, 2020
Author: Howard Ahmanson

In addition to the NIMBYs and the YIMBYs, we now have the PHIMBYs:  Public Housing in My Back Yard. This new acronym represents those who believe that public-subsidized housing should be added to our cities, but no private enterprise market-rate […]

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Some General Observations about China: Languages, Romanizations, Air Quality, General Appearance

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September 4, 2015December 9, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

I am late getting out this post, which should be my last about China. China does not feel like Europe.  It feels like America in some parallel universe.  I had always hated the science fiction tales on TV that had […]

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Beijing – At the End of the Road

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July 1, 2015December 9, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Because Beijing, as the capital and second largest city, gets the most media attention, most people go there first.  We made a point of going there last. The first surprise is that the air there was the clearest we had […]

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Dynasties and All That

  • Culture
June 16, 2015December 9, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

It will occur to the reader that I have been talking about dynasties and this and that without giving any clear background on them.  The time has come to clarify. DYNASTIES In case you don’t know, a dynasty is a […]

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Our China Journey Part V: Shandong

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June 5, 2015December 9, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

About half of Shandong is a mountainous peninsula that sticks out into the East China Sea, dividing it into the Yellow Sea and the Bohai Gulf. But a considerable portion of it projects into the great plain to the west. […]

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Our China Journey, Part IV – Henan, The Center of the Universe

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May 28, 2015December 9, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

We bundled our luggage into a van and got on a train and headed for Luoyang, Henan, a place which has frequently been the capital of China, though a bit of a backwater now.  Here were a number of things […]

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Our China Journey, Part III – Xi’an and Yan’an

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May 26, 2015December 9, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

From Nanjing we got on a plane and flew 600 miles to the northwest to Xi’an, Shaanxi.  This city is now a second tier city about the size of Chicago, but during the Tang dynasty [618-907] it was Chang’an, the […]

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Our China Journey, Part II – Shanghai and the Lower Yangtze Region

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May 24, 2015December 9, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

SHANGHAI We next flew to Shanghai, though the largest city in the country it is not in its core area historically Chinese. Shanghai was a small town until 1842, when just north of it two large concession enclaves were carved […]

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I was saddened to learn about the death last summer of the Evangelical Christian activist and author Ron Sider (1939–2022). I’ve always found his ideas thought-provoking and have agreed with him in somewhat unexpected ways: https://howardahmansonjr.com/2023/01/ronald-j-sider-1939-2022-on-a-most-conscientious-believer/

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Despite weaknesses and economic errors, Ron Sider was a true believer; he didn't care about being ‘trendy’, ‘cool’, or appealing to any establishment, whether the ‘woke’ establishment of our society or the bourgeois establishment of Evangelical churches: https://howardahmansonjr.com/2023/01/ronald-j-sider-1939-2022-on-a-most-conscientious-believer/

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Ronald J. Sider (1939-2022): On a Most Conscientious Believer: https://howardahmansonjr.com/2023/01/ronald-j-sider-1939-2022-on-a-most-conscientious-believer/

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