Tad Mitsui

Essays and Reflections

• Imagination makes human different from animals

• About Life and Death

• Do you always lose something important when we move forward?

• WHAT IT MEANS TO FOLLOW JESUS

• Aging ain’t for a sissy.

• ADDICTED TO INTERRNET

• GOOD IN MODERATION

• CREATIVITY AND FREEDOM

• Crucified Santa Claus

• Cats are annoying. We love them.

• Why do we have to avoid what we like: FAT, SALT AND SUGAR

• humans think in story

• I WAS READY TO QUIT RELIGION

• A FROG IN A POT

• Arts, Science, and Religion are not money making occupations

• LIVING WITH AMBIGUITY

• AGING IS NOT FOR A SISSY

• Hanukkah/Christmas

• FAKE NEWS OR GOSPEL

• Better to give than to receive

• Translating one language into another perfectly is impossible

• We lament the demise of truth

• EVERY COIN HAS TWO SIDES

• Four words for love

• Racism is ubiquitous

• CANADA – COUNTRY BUILT BY REFUGEES

• DON’T CONFUSE ME WITH FACTS. WHY DO WE DENY FACTS?

• SOLITARY CONFINEMENT

• Are we redundant?

• How Can I forgive a man who pretended to be my friend?

• Words lost the power

• Missionaries were agents of Imperialism

• Progress or Suicide?

• You don’t have to be disagreeable to disagree.

• Middle Class Left – Traitor to the class

• What is Christmas in a Multicultural Society?

• PEOPLE MUST BUILD THEIR OWN DEMOCRACY

• Is truth obsolete?

• WHEN WILL WE EVER LEARN!

• REINVENTING MISSIONARY

• BETTER TO GIVE THAN RECEIVE

• Dummy Company and Offshore Bank Account

• THOSE WHO CLAIM TO HAVE A COMPLETE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD ARE DELUSIONAL OR LYING.

• WHO BECOME TERRORISTS?

• Stephen and suicide-bomber

• Who am I if I don’t work for pay?

• Return to South Africa

• LET THERE BE PEACE – FOR ISRAEL TO SURVIVE

• Respectable language is more effective than insult

• QUALITY MATTERS

• Difficulty of being conservative

• Secular society protects minorities

• Root causes are often Poverty

• Limit to Freedon of Expression

• Should Doctor-assisted-suicide be legally allowed?

• How has Christian view on suicide evolved?

• WHY I AM NOT A LITERALIST – How to read the Bible.

• IS THERE UNIVERSAL VALUE?

• PLIGHT OF PALESTINIAN CHRISTIANS IN THE HOLY LAND

• HATE EVIL NOT PEOPLE

• REDEFINING ECONOMICS

• THE NAME OF GOD: WHY THE FUSS?

• HE ROSE FROM THE DEAD, BUT HOW?

• WHAT DOES THE BIBLE SAY ABOUT DEATH?

• LOVE IS THE MOST MISUNDERSTOOD WORD

• ARE WE BETTER OFF?

• WHAT WILL WE CELEBRATE IN WINTER? CHRISTMAS? HANUKKAH?

• Christmas in the Bible – History or Myth

• Will you really really be happy if you succeed in everything?

• I can be quite wrong, and I am happy.

• Value of University Education

• IF THERE IS GOD, WHY THERE’S SO MUCH SUFFERING OF THE INNOCENT PEOLE?

• A 22 YEAR OLD JEWISH WOMAN WHO CHANGED JAPAN

• RAPE IS NOT FUNNY

• SHALOM: What do you do when a good word becomes bad?

• THIS GOD IS A WOMAN

• Administration kills visionaries

• BREASTS OF CHRIST

• We fight when we are too close, look alike, eat the same stuff. Stupid, eh?

• WALLS ARE WASTEFUL, AND DO NOTHING TO PREVENT DISASTER.

• SHOULD A MURDER BE FORGIVEN? AN OLD DEBATE ABOUT FAITH v.s. DEEDS

• HOW RELIGION BECAME ENTERTAINMENT. HOW SPORTS BECAME BAD FOR HEALTH,

• WE ARE ALL DIFFERENT : SO CONFLICT IS NORMAL. THEN WHY DO WE FIGHT?

• RELIGION IS AN INVENTION OF HUMAN IMAGINATION

• Stereotype does not cover everyone.

• VIRGIN MARY, MOTHER OF JESUS

• Growing up in Retirement

• No More Hiroshima

• Isn”t “the Holy Land” an oxymoron?

• Remembering all the War Dead – Award winning article

• I am what I am

• Living with ambiguity

• Are we really that smart?

• Powerless like Jesus in Palestine – Award winning article

• Support excellence among us

• Why people migrate on mass? Why some prople become terrosists?

• POWERLESS LIKE JESUS

• LESSONS FROM DISASTERS

• Call me by my name

• Hope where there is no sign of hope in Palestine

• Crossing the barrier – return to South Africa in 1994

• WHY ISRAEL MUST LEAVE WEST BANK

• A parable about water

• Torture is ineffective.

• Why terrorists do what they do?

• Survival of the fittest must not be a norm for society

• HUNGER IN THE WORLD – WHY PEOPLE STARVE?

• CHEAP FOOD THAT KILLS

• STOPE THE WAR – LEBANON, 2006

• What I learned from life-long justice work

• South Africa – a success story despite violence against foreigners

• PEACE IN THE HOLY LAND

• ARE COCKROACHES MORE INTELLIGENT THAN US?

• Torture is useless

• Against stereo-type – One size does not fit all.

• Poor people are hungry anywhere

• Reading the Old Testament – Ruth and Jonah

• Reading the Old Testament – Amos and Hosea

• Reading the Old Testament – Saul and David

• Disappearing butchers

• Reading the Old Testament – Abraham

• Reading the Old Testament – Flood

• Creation Story

• Death as a blessing

• Love crows

• Inflation cheapens real values

• Crows, dandelions, and raw fish

• The bigger, the worse

• It’s not all act of God

• Penis of Jesus – When Jesus became Christian, did he cease to be a Jew?

• How to give and to whom?

• BREAST OF CHRIST

• WHEN FOSSILS RUN OUT.

• BREAST OF CHRIST

• Problem of Religion

• Wrongful dismissal?

• IT’S ECONOMY, STUPID.

• How can they deny facts such as Climate change, Evolution, and Holocaust?

• Re-examine the notion of consumer credit

• Making something out of nothing

• HIGH GAS PRICE MAY BE BLESSING IN DISGUISE