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Jesus is a Hafu

by Harriet Congdon on February 4, 2021 Leave a Comment
Woman stands in between cherry blossoms, a branch hides her eyse. Text reads Jesus gave us a gift — the opening of a middle space for love and inclusion, justice and freedom, reconciliation and peace, a space where divisions could heal.

I am a hafu (“haw-foo”). It’s a colloquial term used in Japan (it’s how they pronounce “half”) for someone who is mixed race with one parent being Japanese and the other from anywhere else in the world. My mother is Japanese and my father was Scotch-Irish American.  Ten years after WWII ended, my father accepted […]

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