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2022-08-03Christian College Life in JapanTCU Team

Wrestling with God, in Taiwan and around the World

Taiwan is on most front pages around the world today. Let’s pay attention to what’s happening in the neighborhood. * * * But instead of focusing on today’s headlines here, I’d like to spotlight an important Taiwanese theologian and minister: Shoki Coe (黃彰輝) When you merely scratch the surface of “the contextualization of theology,” you […]

2022-08-01Christian College Life in JapanTCU Team

Missiological Iron Sharpening

Former TCU professor Dr. Nelson Jennings announced by email the most recent issue of “Global Missiology – English” (Vol 19 No 3): This issue’s theme is “Missiological Iron Sharpening.” The articles and book reviews offer challenges to think, study, serve, and equip others carefully about approaches to Christian missions—to sharpen each other, just as “iron sharpens iron” (Proverbs […]

2022-07-30Christian College Life in JapanTCU Team

Jesus on Giving and Prayer in Simple Japanese (Matthew 6:1-13)

Have you read from the Bible today? In Japanese? Take a few minutes – just 4 minutes and 40 seconds – and listen to Jesus’ teachings about giving and prayer in (relatively) simple Japanese. It’s an adaptation of Matthew 6:1–13 by TCU’s “Japanese Extensive Reading and Listening” (Tadoku) instructor. If you’ve never studied Japanese, enjoy […]

2022-07-29Christian College Life in JapanTCU Team

Free Ebooks and Audiobooks about Japan

Do you know of any good sites where you can read or listen to good books about Japan? For free? The Japan Foundation in the U.S. and Canada has a really good site for that IF you happen to be a resident in the U.S. or Canada. Library members can borrow ebooks and audiobooks for […]

2022-07-28Christian College Life in JapanTCU Team

TCU New Student Interview 2022 (Vol. 1)

Meet M.K., a Japanese freshman in TCU’s Department of Theology. He entered the Japanese-language track in April 2022. If you’re already studying Japanese, see how much you can catch before looking at the translation below. (I’ve added timestamps to help you follow along if you look at the translation.) But even if you’re just starting […]

2022-07-27Christian College Life in JapanTCU Team

Theology of Everyday Life: Let’s Clear up the Fog!

Wouldn’t you love to to learn and think – in Japanese! – about the Christian life in general, and about church life in particular? You would, right? If you can understand everyday, conversational Japanese, then we invite you to sign up for a series of on-demand lectures this fall called, “Theology of Everyday Life: Let’s […]

2022-07-17Christian College Life in JapanTCU Team

The Ministry of Sharing Joy: Evangelism for Pastors and Congregations

Would you like to learn how an experienced Japanese pastor approaches evangelism in Japan? Yes? Then we invite you to sign up for a series of real-time online lectures this fall called, “The Ministry of Sharing Joy: Evangelism for Pastors and Congregations.” The instructor will be Rev. Masaru Asaoka. There’s just one catch. The course […]

2022-07-16Christian College Life in JapanTCU Team

A concise, multi-angle, non-simplistic, and fair explanation of what motivated the murder of Abe Shinzo

Have you followed the news about former Prime Minister Abe Shinzo’s assassin? On the day Yamagami Tetsuya (41) murdered Abe Shinzo, we simply heard reports that he was not motivated by “political reasons.” As with most things in the news, it’s far more complicated than a simple soundbite. Explanations of the killer’s actual motives have […]

2022-07-12Christian College Life in JapanTCU Team

Imagine Learning Greek and Hebrew, in Japanese!

(Don’t miss all the videos below!) How would you like to read the Bible in its original languages? TCU offers courses in New Testament Greek and Biblical Hebrew. We offer these courses every term in the Japanese-language track mainly to 3rd and 4th-year students (occasionally an ambitious 2nd-year student enrolls in one of the classes). […]

2022-07-11Christian College Life in JapanTCU Team

Nationwide Junior High and High School Christian Senryu Contest

This summer, TCU is holding its 3rd annual “Nationwide Junior High and High School Christian Senryu Contest.” Senryu is an immensely popular form of poetry in Japan, though it’s not as well known as haiku outside of Japan. Whereas haiku are generally serious poems about the beauty and fragility of life, senryu poetry takes everyday life […]

Graduating students tossing mortar boards in the air

2022-07-09Christian College Life in JapanTCU Team

Prayer for the Class of 2022

Congratulations to the class of 2022, representing Japan, Korea, Philippines, Thailand, India, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Canada! May you comfort those who mourn and bring Christ’s peace to broken places in this world. It was a bittersweet time. There were attendance restrictions because of COVID, so family from overseas who had planned to come, and many […]

2022-07-07Christian College Life in JapanTCU Team

July News and Prayer Requests

A few posts ago, we shared our prayer requests for the 2022 academic year. Today, we’d like to share a few prayer requests especially for the month of July. Would you please pray with us and for us? 1. Summer Commencement Worship Service On July 8 (Fri), we’ll hold the Summer Commencement Worship Service in […]

2022-07-06Christian College Life in JapanTCU Team

Class of 2022 Senior Theses

This year, three of our seniors in the English track wrote a graduation thesis. From the titles alone, you can catch a glimpse of our students’ broad range of interests. A student from Thailand wrote about early Christian missions in Japan in a thesis she titled, “Gatekeepers, Acculturation Strategy, and Contextualization in Francis Xavier’s Mission in […]

2022-07-05Christian College Life in JapanTCU Team

“The Lord is My Shepherd” (Psalm 23) in Simple Japanese

One of the Japanese language classes at TCU is called “Japanese Extensive Reading and Listening.” We usually call it “Tadoku” (多読) for short. The word “tadoku” is a combination of the Kanji for “a lot” or “much” (多) and “read” or “reading” (読). When learning a new language, it’s really important to get as much […]

2022-07-04Christian College Life in JapanTCU Team

Christianity and Anime

What’s your favorite anime? I never cease to be amazed at how much some of our international students know about anime. Some have watched a lot more than our Japanese students who grew up in Japan. It should be no surprise, then, to learn about something like Aniplex of America’s “Anime Expo 2022,” held at […]

2022-07-01Christian College Life in JapanTCU Team

2022 Verse, Theme, and Prayer Requests

Every year, TCU’s leadership picks a Scripture verse and theme of the year. We also publish a list of prayer requests. At TCU, we frequently call the verse and theme to mind, and we lift up these prayer needs throughout each week of the 2022 academic year (April 2022 through March 2023). Would you pray […]

2022-06-30Christian College Life in JapanTCU Team

New Student Interviews: International Student Edition

During your visits to this site, have you noticed the “Japanese” link? On a computer, you should see it at the top right. On a phone or other small screen . . . well, it’s there somewhere! Follow that link, and you’ll discover a whole new world. A world that’s mostly inaccessible, though, if you […]

2022-06-29Christian College Life in JapanTCU Team

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Are you a member of the TCU community, or would you like to be? Are you a graduate or friend of TCU? Are you simply interested in learning more about Christian college life in Japan? Whichever one you are, this blog is for you. Enter your email address right here and hit “Subscribe.” We’ll keep […]

2022-06-29Christian College Life in JapanTCU Team

God’s Praise to the Ends of the Earth

Looking back at some old TCU videos, I came across this 1-minute video from 2009. It’s a beautiful montage of TCU students from around the world reading verses from Psalm 48 in different languages. Where do you think these students are from? How many can you get right? Watch, guess, and then scroll down for […]

2022-06-28Christian College Life in JapanTCU Team

Open Campus on July 23 (Sat)

Check out this promo video for our Open Campus this July. If you’re learning Japanese . . . watch it first and see how much you can pick up. (Confession: I had to listen to the phone conversation about 5 times to catch what he said when he answered the phone.) Don’t look down yet! […]

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