Month: January 2019

  • Why Chinese people don’t need religion

    Why Chinese people don’t need religion

    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…

  • What is the line between recruiting versus poaching pastors and church staff?

    What is the line between recruiting versus poaching pastors and church staff?

    Working in the church context comes with a unique dynamic with employment, job transitions, and staffing. By contrast, in most other professional jobs, someone can submit a 2-week notice to resign from a job and go to another job. Etiquette expert Peggy Post shared these basic steps for quitting: Tell your supervisor. Establish a last…

  • Chinese American Mental Health Seminar Videos

    Chinese American Mental Health Seminar Videos

    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…

  • about The View, The Talk, The Real, The Kitchen

    about The View, The Talk, The Real, The Kitchen

    The format that has endured decades of television viewers is the talk show. For whatever reasons, these kinds of shows remain popular with sizable audiences. Most of the talk show format have a single host (the likes of Oprah, Jimmy Fallon, Ellen, Stephen Colbert). Television networks broadcast these in daytime and late night time slots…