Month: November 2013

  • 9 Things About Asian American Christianity

    9 Things About Asian American Christianity

    This was a guest post at Ed Stetzer’s The Exchange Blog, hosted at Christianity Today in 2013; cached from https://web.archive.org/web/20160308033055/http://www.christianitytoday.com/edstetzer/2013/november/9-things-about-asian-american-christianity.html Asian Americans are a significant part of American society and its increasingly multiethnic population. Asian Americans are also accelerating in their role in participating and shaping the future of the American church at large. One…

  • A Class Discussion on Race and Ethnicity in American Evangelicalism

    I will be speaking as a special guest in a college English class on Thursday December 5th, 9:00-10:15am in Sutherland 125 at Biola University (La Mirada, CA). I’ve been invited by Dr. Joshua Smith (Assistant Professor in the Biola English Department) for the “Race & Ethnicity in American Literature” course to share my experiences & perspectives, in…

  • Who are the 3 Church Consultants on Reality TV?

    Seminaries are great at training for theology, and the theological foundation is absolutely essential. But there’s a whole business side of running a church, as many of us learn the hard way. That’s where church consultants come in—to lay the organizational foundation for a church. Just came across a new reality tv show “Church Rescue”…

  • Leading voices among Asian American preachers

    Many people find lists and selecting the best of the best because there’s too much information out there (and I say that to opt-out from that category for myself.) So, in response to a tweet, here’s a list of Asian American pastors that regularly preach and teach at their churches and particularly contextualize the Gospel…

  • How to get to know Asian Americans

    We have a lot of learning to do and a lot of relationships to build, especially we as Asian Americans and we as the American evangelical church. Even with both having been around for 5 generations or so, the conversations and relationships between Asian American Christians and the majority-Caucasian evangelical church can be described as…