Category: dialogue
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Best resource for Asian American elderly care
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How do we care for Asian American elders? This is a personal question for me and my wife, as my in-laws are into their 80s and we’ve had to struggle through more issues and challenges beyond our imagination. And we’re finding that our peers and many others face similar challenges elderly seniors who are Asian…
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3 options for nonprofit cultural change
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Recent conversations spurred on this short take on how to change a nonprofit’s organization’s culture, whether someone should stick around to change over time, or to start something new from scratch. Oh, let’s say the topic was diversity and they’d like to see the nonprofit organization become a safe place that values diverse people of…
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Do you know who is the ultimate prompt engineer?
We are fast entering this age of artificial intelligence, with big data feeding into machine learning, and the aggregated data becoming useful for collective computing to anticipate the human tendencies and pattern recognition of common answers to frequently asked questions. It dawned upon me during a recent conversation, that we are moving from flat 2-dimensional…
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Netflix’s Beef with Church Life and Mental Health
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The streaming TV series on Netflix called BEEF, starring a prominent cast of Asian Americans, headlined by Ali Wong and Steve Yuen, has the pop culture zeitgeist abuzz with chatter on social media and mainstream outlets like CNN, NBC News, Mashable, Collider, Slate, Looper, Christianity Today, and RELEVANT Magazine. Note first, a content warning for…
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when Joe Rogan talk with Christian guests
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in dialogueThe Joe Rogan Experience tops the charts in the world of podcasting, while producing 3-hour long podcasts, which is plain confounding, because most podcast episodes average around 30 minutes in duration. And to pull off that kind of popularity, he’s got something to say—because he’s both entertaining, intelligent, and has interesting guests. I do find…
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My moment to rethink leadership
With my personal websites crashing this past weekend, because my shared hosting service lost all my data, I’ve started to rethink why I do what I do online, with much of it being given away freely for going on 20 years. And, it so happens I am going to a church conference called Rethink Leadership…
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Wisdom for Life Stages, Seasons, and Decades that Many People Go Through
Want to make a difference in the world? How can people find their unique and best contribution? There’s wisdom in undertsanding and knowing the seasons of life that are marked by the decades of our chronological age. I first heard these words of wisdom from Stan Endicott (co-author of Improv Leadership and co-founder of Slingshot…
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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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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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Listening to black leaders, not more news
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Amongst the many voices of protests are good people, men and women made in the image of God, and that’s the most important thing. People are more valuable than property, dignity more than doctrines, empathy more than examination. Listen to these voices I’ve found to be helpful to better understand what it’s like to be…
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How to Explain to Kids about Coronavirus Crisis
Pastor Wilson Wang and wife Nina (Renew Church OC) are young parents and authors who wrote this very clear and valuable book titled, “Called to be Healers with Jesus“. The book is helping kids and parents understand how God is partnering with us to be healing the world in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic.…
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You Don’t Have to Believe if You Don’t Want
With the power of digital publishing given to everyday people, new groups are emerging online, some even noted as social movements. One group tagged as “exvangelicals” have blogged and tweeted and vlogged and podcated their journey of leaving their evangelical Christian faith. When the comedy duo, Rhett and Link, recently talked about their journey of…