Category: multiethnic
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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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DEI as markers of churches known for Belonging
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Dr. Arthur L. Satterwhite III explained: Diversity, equity, and inclusion should matter to us because they are the outworking of a critical truth embedded deeply within the Christian faith.
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Inviting Devotional Writers from around the World
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Learned of this lovely project from a friend of a friend. Epic Love Story is inviting authors for a devotional study guide! Epic Love Story wants to have one author per country for this collaborative project. And let’s do the math together: with one devotional for each of the 66 books in the Bible, that…
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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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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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Church Consultants for Diversity and Black Lives
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I’m pained and cringing at the blunders and blindness of people who say the wrong things, hurtful words, because they don’t understand the plight of black lives amidst the protests that are all around us. Especially white pastors and church leaders, who you’d think would know better, but some don’t, yet. The fact is, injustices…
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29 Books for Faithful Racial Justice
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InterVarsity Press is arguably the leading publisher for Christian authors who share their prophetic voices and stories to educate the uninformed and challenge with the truth. Learn from these books to pursue justice, wholeness, and racial righteousness in your homes, churches, and communities. InterVarsity Press had offered one free eBook of a title below from…
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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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Multi-site Churches with Video Teaching by Preachers of Color
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The question came up in a recent conversation about how effective is video teaching with non-white church attenders. My hunch (based on my limited experience) in following the chatter with multi-site churches and multiethnic churches over the years, is that video teaching seems to work better with white teaching pastors and communicators. In other words,…
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Committing My Life to 3 Things = M.S.G.
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3 things that I’m devoting my life to = MultiAsian + Shame + Generosity. Watch this quick personal update video where I explain. It’s taken me many years, several decades, to arrive at discovering what my ultimate contribution in life will be, or should be. My life was blessed to discover and receive clarity around this time last year.…
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How Saddleback Church is Becoming an All Nations Congregation
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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 18 locations around Southern California (USA) and other countries (Hong Kong, Philippines, Argentina,…
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Statistics on Asian Americans in Multiethnic or Monoethnic churches?
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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. People ask me questions related to this topic of Asian Americans and churches.…