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,…
May 14, 2022 | Hope from Ashes Conference: Legacies and Lessons from the Los Angeles Riots Conference. Dr. Christina Edmondson characterizes the violent pillars that hold up racial stratification. Against the barriers of fear, exhaustion, and trauma, Dr. Edmondson draws from the narrative of Acts 16:16-24 in order to display…
CAACAugust 30, 2022
May 14, 2022 | Hope from Ashes Conference: Legacies and Lessons from the Los Angeles Riots Conference. Through grounded analysis and activism, Hyepin Im presents how the dismantling of the model minority myth allows for greater racial solidarity. In this way, the truth sets people free in their mission to…
CAACAugust 15, 2022
May 13, 2022 | Hope from Ashes Conference: Legacies and Lessons from the Los Angeles Riots Conference. In thinking through theological questions of solidarity, Dr. Jonathan Tran proposes an analytical lens of political economy in order to diagnose, by way of thick descriptions, relations between African Americans and Asian Americans.…
CAACAugust 1, 2022
May 14, 2022 | Hope from Ashes: Legacies and Lessons from the Los Angeles Riots Conference. Dr. David Latimore facilitates a panel discussion with the speakers from the Hope from Ashes conference. https://open.spotify.com/episode/3yV0V1biCBDF4z9DUjI74l?si=a99cb3279508456d
CAACJuly 18, 2022
Dr. Russell Jeung likens the American educational system to competitions portrayed in the popular Netflix show Squid Game. In this cutthroat and costly environment, disadvantaged communities are pitted against each other for the benefit of the few. Instead, Dr. Jeung proposes a scriptural movement wherein this zero sum competition is…
CAACJuly 11, 2022
In this podcast, we have a conversation with Kathryn Gin Lum about her new book, “Heathen: Religion and Race in American History.” The book argues how the religious idea of the heathen undergirds American conceptions of race. While the term “heathen” fell out of common use by the early 1900s, the term’s influence…
CAACJuly 4, 2022
An Asian American Christian legacy story November 21, 2021. Stop AAPI Hate is one of the most significant movements today. Co-founded by Prof. Russell Jeung (one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people of the world for 2021), it and the AAPI community have drawn more attention to anti-Asian discrimination than…
Tim TsengJuly 1, 2022
May 14, 2022 | Hope from Ashes Conference: Legacies and Lessons from the Los Angeles Riots Conference. Dr. Jane Hong provides pertinent historical context surrounding the 1992 LA Riots, giving attention to the crucial forces that framed the event. She then offers insights from her own narrative as a child…
CAACJune 27, 2022
Dr. David Chao, Princeton Seminary President Craig Barnes, and Dr. Matthew Kuan Johnson give their opening remarks for the 2022 Hope From Ashes Conference co-hosted by the Center for Asian American Christianity and the Betsy Stockton Center for Black Church Studies. https://open.spotify.com/episode/19fRizc7BrBfk2rBtuQKHs?si=67cb1d46f4e94c2e
CAACJune 21, 2022
I’ve come to believe that the nations need each other. The Philippines needs the United States, and the United States needs the Philippines. The nations of the world need one another to be the world. It is more than simply tolerating each other; we need to see the interdependence of nations to…
Al TizonApril 26, 2022