Author: djchuang
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Finding a Christian Mental Health Coach
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Talk with a Christian mental health coach to get support and resources for your recovery process with your mental health
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Mental Health Therapists for People of Color
Let’s make it easier to find mental health professionals, counselors, and therapists who are culturally competent for people of color and BIPOC.
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Asian Americans with Bipolar Disorder
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Asian-Americans are 3 times less likely than their white counterparts to seek treatment for their mental health concerns.
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background check on a church’s reputation
I think it’s fair to say that good Christian ministries have their critics, and a few even run into legal action in the mix, which I’ll leave nameless. I wouldn’t want to get a “cease and desist” on my blog, even though in one sense it’s a blogger’s badge of honor. Nothing like controversy to…
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Leading Cause of Death among Asian American Young Adults Ages 15-24
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Do you know what is causing more deaths among Asian American young adults between the ages of 15 and 24? It’s not anti-Asian hate crimes by others; it’s suicide, a self-directed act of violence that results in death. But it’s so hard for Asian Americans to talk about suicide for so many reasons, one of…
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How to Understand Anti-Asian Hate Crimes
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Since the start of the global pandemic with COVID-19, there’s been over 3,800 reports of anti-Asian hate crimes. And those are only the number reported; undoubtedly there are many more unreported. Anti-Asian sentiment has been a part of American history, notoriously with The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and Japanese internment camps during World War…
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A Sermon by Pastor Greg Owyang
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Pastor Greg Owyang served as a gifted Chinese-American preacher in the 1980’s and inspired many to serve the Lord. He was tragically martyred in 1985. I had never heard him preach, until recently, when I found a website with some of his sermons from 1983. These recorded audios had thought-by-thought translation from English to Cantonese…
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Talking About Money Because Jesus Talked About Money
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We have started an on-going conversation and newsletter about becoming generous Asian Ameriacn Christians, thanks to my friend Jeff Lee.
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3 Steps for Churches to Start a Mental Health Ministry
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Caring for the mental health of one another is the reality of our human condition around the world. Americans who struggle needlessly with mental and emotional disorders was estimated around 20% before the global pandemic in 2020, and projected to have increased since. The truth is that not enough professional healthcare resources currently exist to…
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Asian American Barriers to Mental Health Treatment & How Churches Can Help
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Key Ministry started a new series on Mental Health Ministry and Cultural Competence and they invited me as one of their webinar speakers, for which I’m grateful to have shared from my lived experience in managing my mood disorder. 2020 brought rapid change to the worldwide Church, but one thing that has not changed much…
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Some Asian American Preachers for Christmas 2020
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Here’s a random sampling of sermons and services from Christmas week 2020, in no particular order, not curated nor ranked—