Category: ASIAN AMERICAN
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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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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—
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6 Next Generation Networks for Asian American Christian Leaders
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Rise up, Asian Americans! There are more voices beginning to speak and write in the public square of social media and the Web. Coming together has so much more potential than going it alone, solo, or individual, in this multiethnic multicultural world; very needed and long overdue. Here’s a short list of networks that are…
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“What is it that you do exactly?”
February 2020 has been a heavy travel month, 3 out of 4 weeks away from home—in Virginia, at Mt. Hermon, San Francisco, San Jose, and Nashville, Tennessee. I’ve got a good website here with a bunch of content, but sometimes people want to have a nice short and sweet summary. There are some people that…
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Chinese health concerns, like depression and anxiety
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Chinese and Asian Americans have health concerns, because the most important thing in life is being healthy and being reasonably happy in an imperfect world. Without health, one’s quality of life can be unbearable and push some people towards desperation and tragic consequences, the worst of which is suicide, for this reason a good depression…
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about Next Generation Chinese Canadian Christians
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Living in fast-changing times of the 21st century has enough challenges in our society and culture. Trying to navigate two very different cultures is that much harder. The dynamics of bi-cultural of people from an ethnic Asian heritage and living in an American cultural context brings many challenges and opportunities. Add on top of that…
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Talking about Depression, Anxiety, and Faith next Fri 11/22
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The videos from this mental health seminar, where DJ Chuang and family shared about living well with depression, anxiety, and bipolar disorder, can be viewed online. Come next Friday 11/22 to Torrance, California, where I am speaking about mental health. The event starts at 7:30pm and the location is the Bread of Life Church (2780…