The wisdom of Tolkien
I've nearly finished my second reading of J.R.R. Tolkien's trilogy The Lord of the Rings. I first read this mammoth work of fantasy...
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Richard Brash
Jan 17, 20214 min
A Timely Word: What to say to the grieving?
Last week the world faced the grim statistic: novel coronavirus COVID-19 has now claimed more than 2 million lives. The inescapable...
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Richard Brash
Dec 19, 20203 min
Religion with benefits
Are Japanese people 'religious'? Almost 50% (49.4%, to be precise) of people in Japan say they have 'no religion' (無宗教). But this doesn't...
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Richard Brash
Dec 9, 20206 min
Sexual temptation... and the Buddha
Since October, I've been taking a regular class in early Buddhism at the local culture centre here in Nagoya. I should say that "taking"...
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Richard Brash
Nov 23, 20205 min
The Crazy, Crazy World of Golf in Japan
I'm not much of a golfer. But as a native of Scotland, I consider myself something of a golfing purist. Golf should be played as it was...
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Richard Brash
Nov 20, 20203 min
Why Guys Who Move Abroad Lose Weight... and Girls Put it On
I first moved to Japan from the UK nearly twenty years ago, as an Assistant English Teacher (AET) on the Japanese government's JET...
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Richard Brash
Nov 17, 20202 min
Comfort and Joy!
Are you ‘looking forward’ to Christmas? That question is not always an easy one to answer, even for Christians. For some of us, Christmas...
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Richard Brash
Nov 6, 20202 min
I've already married three Japanese people: I expect there will be more.
I'd better put this up front: I only have one wife. And I've only ever had one. We're very happily married. But a few years ago a...
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Richard Brash
Nov 5, 20204 min
Why you SHOULD come to Japan as a missionary.
If you read my previous post (Why you shouldn't come to Japan as a missionary), you might be wondering what's left to say on the...
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Richard Brash
Nov 5, 20203 min
Why you shouldn't come to Japan as a missionary.
This doesn't sound like the kind of blogpost a missionary in Japan should be writing. And I want to put a big caveat up front: God calls...
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Richard Brash
Nov 2, 20202 min
Be Bible Christians, not system Christians!
Systematic theology doesn't always get a great press. For some Christians I know, it sounds like a process of putting things in...
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