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About This Site
Samuel Lee

My name is Samuel Lee. I dream of keeping Kanzo Uchimura sensei's ideas alive for non-Japanese people worldwide. I am convinced that Uchimura sensei's ideas are timely and suitable for our time. As president of the Foundation Academy of Amsterdam, my ambition is to establish the Kanzo Uchimura Center for Christianity, in which the ideas of Uchimura sensei will be accessible to those who are interested. 

 

Note! This is site is under construction and it will be gradually completed 

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We become a Christian not because we were baptized to join a church, not because we understood the Christian doctrine by our brains. But we become a Christian because we have received the “Holy One” as our friend.​
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KANZO UCHIMURA

I love two Js and no third; one is Jesus, and the other is Japan. I do not know
which I love more, Jesus or Japan. I am hated by my countrymen for Jesus’ sake
as foreign belief, and I am disliked by foreign missionaries for Japan’s sake as
national and narrow. Even if I lose all my friends, I cannot lose Jesus and Japan
. . . Jesus and Japan; my faith is not a circle with one center; it is an ellipse with
two centers. My heart and mind revolve around the two dear names. And I know
that one strengthens the other; Jesus strengthens and purifies my love for Japan;
and Japan clarifies and objectives my love for Jesus. Were it not for the two, I
would become a mere dreamer, a fanatic, an amorphous universal man.

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Kanzo Uchimura, 1861–1930 

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