Paul Matsushima

Newsletters

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Mentoring through Our Failures

My mentor knew that the type of guide, role model, and teacher I needed at that moment wasn’t one who drove me harder or dispensed advice. I needed a mentor who would share his failures more than his successes, his vulnerabilities over his expertise.

Finding Peace in the Midst of Burnout

When I was in seminary and pastoral ministry in my mid-twenties, I was burnt out. The mismatching of my pastoral role doing community outreach and building local partnerships with my lack of job experience and personality as an introvert led to feeling overwhelmed and exhausted.

#stopAAPIhate

Many in the AAPI community are hurting. The Church must speak up.

Finding Meaning in Transition

After one of the lowest points in my life, I was confronted with the idea that our trials, our transitions, our grief, our hardships can be instructive and transformative.

Leading and Relating Across Differences

In anticipation to the 2020 U.S. Presidential Elections, let us not retreat to our echo chambers or jump straight to arguing. Instead, let’s stay connected to each other, listening to different perspectives, and respecting each other’s beliefs.

Mom, Dad, I’m Proud of You

I don’t say this nearly enough, but I am proud of my parents. Both were children of resilience, whose parents (my grandparents) had to rebuild their lives after the trauma of the Japanese American incarceration during WWII.