Safe Spaces and Storytelling: Developing the Emerging Indian Leader
I was about six years old (or so I’m told) when my dad signed me up to sing in front of a sea of brown people at a local Indian Christian conference. Unsure about the experience, I, a young Indian girl, stood before the mic. I looked at the mic…
“Lord, We Are Coming”: Creating a Spiritual Haven for AAPI Activist Ministry Leaders
For each of us, God’s invitation to “Come and talk with me,” and our response, “Lord, I am coming,” takes place in our own contexts, in our own lived and imaginative landscapes. I hope that we will all have more opportunities to take a holy pause with others in our…
Imagining What’s Possible: Reflecting on AAPI Women’s Leadership in the Vineyard Association
How can we identify the unique gifts of the AAPI community – seeing what and who is overlooked by the church at large, to serve those unseen in ways missed by the broader Vineyard movement, and also gather their gifts in ways that create a stronger Vineyard movement overall? How…
The “Model Minority” Myth in the Chinese American Church
Chinese Americans (and Asian Americans) continue to live in the liminal space of the margins. This is not to say that much hasn’t been gained in both secular and religious life. However, as the “model minority,” they remain on the outside, looking to the majority for guidance and direction in…
Telling Our Stories, Telling God’s Story: the Ministry of Spiritual Direction and Being Asian Canadian
The story of my own formation, as a spiritual director, and a Christian of Asian Canadian heritage is an integral part of the story of the Church and the story of God. The stories of others in my community, their stories of immigration, of belonging and not belonging, of racism,…
As many of us are aware, this myth describes us as the “good” minorities who work hard, prioritize our families, and keep our heads low. These qualities, in turn, align with evangelicalism’s emphases on the individual and hard work and its spiritualization of racial identity. They also smother our social…
Gregory LeeDecember 19, 2022
Watching Never Have I Ever gave me the space to grieve in a South Asian way. Devi and I have grown alongside each other in the last few years as we both have learned how to embrace our identity, make South Asian friends, and truly heal. Our loved ones will…
Shreya RamachandranDecember 5, 2022
Billy Taing and Diane Ujiiye, Co-Directors of API RISE, invite you into conversation about humanizing sisters, brothers, and siblings who have endured war, poverty, refugee camps, and the “crimmigration” system. Join them in learning about counteracting stigma and the shame of being incarcerated and undocumented.
CAACNovember 22, 2022
If Bulosan’s America is in the Heart offers any hope, it is in his illustration of a primal communion of land, human, nonhuman, and transcendent life webbed together and made perceptible by awe. To begin in this awe is to imagine life beyond precarity.
Colton BernasolNovember 9, 2022
(These are the oral remarks by Professor Carolyn Chen at a book symposium on Professor David Hollinger’s Christianity’s American Fate: How Religion Became more Conservative and Society more Secular hosted by the Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion on October 10, 2022. Other than removing prefatory comments and minor…
Carolyn ChenNovember 3, 2022
Just as early Roman Christians saw a mirror of the Incarnation in Saturnalia, I see a mirror for Indian people in Diwali. It demonstrates the hope of liberation from the binding evil of darkness and the impulse to look for deliverance to God above. Unlike traditional narrations of Diwali, which…
Ashish VarmaOctober 24, 2022
Join this conversation with Professor Paul Lim as we discuss baseball, mentoring, Asian American church history, and Young Nak Presbyterian Church in Los Angeles. https://open.spotify.com/episode/7KTA3OVEKFyuCQwRDQkQ3F
CAACOctober 10, 2022
We share this presentation by Dr. Carrie Myers for the Asian American Theology and Ministry Colloquium titled “Cultivating Asian American Spiritual Formation.” Come learn about the stages of faith and how to overcome “the wall” that blocks our spiritual growth in Christ. https://open.spotify.com/episode/0RNWXrbR84JUPGRo7oTwrk
CAACOctober 3, 2022
Hmong Americans (shaman, Christian, or other) would do well to recognize how the porous natures of the religious, cultural, and political are operative in our everyday lives–including when we gather for such a worthwhile event as celebrating our Hmong American sister,
Der LorSeptember 12, 2022
While there is still a long way to go, it is worth highlighting the great strides that the AAPI community has had in leadership within Christianity. It seems that the “Bamboo Cross” (the Bamboo Ceiling, but in Christian organizations) is finally coming down. This article is meant to capture a…
Allen YehSeptember 7, 2022