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Orange County, California, has over 3 million people and about a third of that population is foreign-born. The largest church in Orange County at this moment in history is Saddleback Church, originated in Lake Forest in 1980. Now the church meets in...
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....
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.
I believe that we as Christians have had privilege in many ways that other religions do not have, here in America. I think that privilege and power are intricately linked—found these good thoughts on Twitter worth reading and considering. (twitter thread by...
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...
The Bible talks many times about the importance of passing the faith from one generation to the next. Sure it can happen in the family context, from parents and grandparents to their sons and daughters. And, it also needs to happen intentionally...
Racism is alive and well, and terribly ugly and fraught with anger and fear, violent in words and deeds, even in the post-enlightenment 21st century. People on both sides of the aisle, faith and non-faith, Christian or not, vigorously protest the injustices...
Pastoring and leading is primarily about people. It’s not only about people. It is so much more. And as much as we study the Bible or go thru years of seminary training, to prepare for Gospel ministry, that’s not the half of...
