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Category: ASIAN AMERICAN

  • Number of Korean Churches in the USA and Canada

    Number of Korean Churches in the USA and Canada

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    Here at the 2-week residency of the D.Min. Asian American Ministry Track at Talbot School of Theology. Thanks to Dr. Ben Shin for inviting me to present 2 class lectures. This afternoon was on how the history of Christianity in Asia and in America impacts Asian Americans today. I wanted to get some more recent…

  • Counseling for Asian American Pastors and Missionaries

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    Recently got word of this most valuable resource that provides great help for Asian American pastors, missionaries, and their families to receive mental and emotional health care through biblical Christian counseling. Excerpt of the announcement: Announcement: Ministry Counseling Subsidy for Pastors and Missionaries We have great news! Asian American Christian Counseling Service (AACCS) was awarded…

  • A Better Gospel for Chinese People and Asian Cultures

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    Have you noticed there are 4 Gospels about Jesus Christ in the Bible, the Christian Scriptures? Why wasn’t one more than enough? One reason it’s so valuable to have these multiple presentations of the life of Christ is to make it more understandable and meaningful to particular people in specific cultures: Matthew for the Jews. Mark for the…

  • Will churches help to erase shame about mental illnesses?

    Will churches help to erase shame about mental illnesses?

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    Excerpt from “Can Churches Separate Mental Illness and Shame? Rick Warren confronts one more “last taboo.”” – cover story in Christianity Today by Christine A. Scheller (3/31/14):: “In some Asian populations, we know there are not even words for therapy or suicide,” said Kristee Haggins, senior associate at the California Institute for Mental Health and…

  • Why Asian American generations don’t understand each other

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    Language shapes culture. I’ve also heard it said that language and culture are intricately connected. Another dimension of that came to light recently as I listened to this NPR TED podcast episode, Does The Subjunctive Have A Dark Side? [transcript] – where a portion of a TEDx talk delivered by a 2nd-gen Vietnamese-American explained how…

  • Join this Asian American Christian Leadership D.Min. Cohort

    Join this Asian American Christian Leadership D.Min. Cohort

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    Leadership in the Asian American church and ministry context requires you to stay sharp and keeps you on your toes. One of the best, and highly-valued, ways of doing that is through formal education. When you successfully graduate from this D.Min. program, you’ll have the title of Doctor, just like Dr. Rick Warren, Dr. Tim…

  • Being Asian American is more not less

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    Spontaneous combustion of ideas are so much more exhilarating than a predictable routine to me. And the conversations lit up my switchboard and I want to share one of them with you. Yesterday I’m chatting over late afternoon tea with a couple of new friends from connections via Telos Ventures (and I’d venture to say…

  • Looking for more Asian American Christian voices

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    Listening to the churchm.ag podcast and this quote echoed out to me, “You don’t know your voice until you use it…” (Jon Acuff).. and with recent activities I’ve been thinking on how the perception of Asian Americans have been shaped by stereotypes perpetuated by traditional and mainstream media. (I’m tempted to call this controlled media…

  • a book reaction to Resisting Grace by Jon Ido Warden

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    I was delighted to meet Jon Ido Warden earlier this year and receive a review copy of his self-published book, “Resisting Grace: Our Avoidance and His Persistence.” I confess that I have only read one-third of it, so what I can write is a book reaction and a first impression of the book overall, so…

  • 9 Things About Asian American Christianity

    9 Things About Asian American Christianity

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    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

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    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…

  • Leading voices among Asian American preachers

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    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…