Category: ASIAN AMERICAN
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There was a blog for Asian American Christian voices
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NextGenerAsianChurch team blog had quite a run, almost a decade, as a collective that was open to talk about the collision of faith and Asian American cultures. The blog went dark about a year ago, for some unknown reason. I was digging up some of those old blog posts for a friend, so while I…
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Oldest Asian American Churches in USA
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Some people love to remember the history and honor the traditions of the past generations. One of the lasting legacies of faith that is passed on from one generation to the next is a church community. While the typical church has a life span of around 60-80 years, these are churches that continue to provide…
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Statistics on Asian Americans in Multiethnic or Monoethnic churches?
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Research on Asian American Christianity can be hard to find in the pubic, though I’ve heard that there’s a significant number of academic studies, as in dissertations and thesis, that have been done. But, those are not readily available for public usage. People ask me questions related to this topic of Asian Americans and churches.…
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Asian American Christians don’t talk about money?
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Generosity and philanthropy are uncomfortably hard to talk about in mainstream American culture and churches. It’s even harder to talk about in Asian American Christian churches.
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Looking for Asian American Church Leaders under 40
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Each and every summer, I am getting older and farther from the next generation of Asian American young adults who are maturing into their own as Christ-followers, some as pastors and church leaders, others as faith-filled people working out in the world mixing it up as light in the so-called darkness. Taking a bold step…
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A History of Asian American Christianity from 2003 to 2019
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The best collection of articles that I’ve found online about the history of Asian American evangelical Christians is posted at AsianAmericanChristian.org. When that website was actively posting new content between 2013-2015, the curator interviewed me for my take on Asian American Christian history. Here are a few snapshots of history from my vantage point, which…
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Free Webinar on July 30: Minority Mental Health Awareness
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In honor of National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month, NAMI California hosted a webinar, “Grow Your Grassroots (Webinar): Asian-American Communities & Mental Health”
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Mental health in Asian American communities
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Asian Americans have honest conversations about their mental health struggles in this special series of Erasing Shame podcast
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Asian American Pastor Louis Lee
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One of the pastors that pioneered Christian church ministries for English-speaking Asian Americans is Rev. Louis Lee, most prominently in the 1990s and 2000s. I got to reconnect with Louis over an informal lunch fellowship, his very words, during this Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. I reflected upon how his life and ministry…
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Conferences for Asian American Christian Women?
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Finding a Christian women’s conference for Asian Americans isn’t easy. There’s one for clergy women and 2 churches that host women’s retreats known
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Why Chinese people don’t need religion
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Chinese Americans are the least religious people group in the United States. The Chinese in America aren’t just the least religious among Asian Americans, but also the least religious of any ethnic grouping. To be more precise, a new forthcoming book, Family Sacrifices, opens with a nuanced paragraph: Fifty-two percent of Chinese Americans report having…
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Chinese American Mental Health Seminar Videos
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Very valuable resources are now available online: culturally-relevant informative videos about mental health in Chinese and Asian American communities. Watch the videos in this YouTube playlist from the 2018 Enlighten Mental Health Seminar. Enlighten seminar notes and video titles are posted at english.cccto.org/mental-health/videos-handouts 2018 Enlighten Seminar – Session Titles The Ministry of Presence to Broken People…