Where All Parts Belong
When injustices arise in the world, some churches speak up while others stay silent. In one of Jesus’ parables, a priest and a Levite see a man on the road who has been robbed, attacked, and left for dead. Their response is to pass by on the other side. What is the difference between them and a church that remains silent? Are they not the same? Both choose to disregard suffering and look away.
Advent Worship and Corporate Action: The Fourth Sunday of Advent
We celebrate this Advent, the birth of your son Jesus, and we also look forward to the 2nd Advent, the day when you will come again to make all things right, and to complete your Kingdom. Until then we ask for the strength of your Holy Spirit to help us to keep your commands, to live in truth, to do justice, to love kindness, and to walk humbly with you.
Advent Worship and Corporate Action: The Third Sunday of Advent
All of us are invited, even called, by God to make Jesus our hope. None of us are more worthy or less worthy to encounter God today. There’s no chart with God that puts some of us closer and some of us farther away. We’re all on the same ground. So, whoever you are, wherever you’ve been, welcome. God’s Spirit is here. Let’s meet him.
Advent Worship and Corporate Action: The second Sunday of Advent
Today is the second Sunday of the Christian season of Advent. Advent means “coming” or “arrival.” We celebrate two advents of Christ during this season – and, really, every day.
Advent Worship and Corporate Action: The First Sunday of Advent
We celebrate two advents of Christ during this season – and, really, every day. During Advent we look back at the first coming of Christ with so much thankfulness, and we look forward to the second coming of Christ with so much anticipation.
Advent Worship and Corporate Action: A Resource for Churches
This document contains four worship services for the four Sundays of Advent. It is our desire that you use their basic ideas as a skeleton, or just incorporate certain sections for your own churches’ worship.
The cost of sacrificial love in Asian American families: honoring parents while maintaining boundaries
A uniform approach to healthy family boundaries may not apply in our multicultural society, especially in families shaped by the immigrant experience.
Between the Lines of Asian, Black, and White
The model minority myth erases both the suffering of Black Americans and Asian Americans.
Book Review: Beyond Ethnic Loneliness
Living as a member of a marginalized community can be lonely and a source of grief, but Verma reminds us that we can find Jesus in the margins.
Our Faith, Our Vote: Pursuing Advocacy as Asian American Christians
When Asian Americans show up and take their seat at the table, they can influence and enact policies that promote justice and equity for their community.
Let's dive into summer reading: Picture books featuring AANHPI kids
The one thing my summer reading lacked was adventures about mixed-race AANHPI characters like me. That’s why I always dreamed of writing books for kids in which they could see many shades of brown faces and enter worlds that fell into worlds that felt both familiar and adventurous.
My Name is Lion-Heart: Emerging from Behind the Imposter Syndrome
Book Review: Faith Embodied: Science, Belief, and Behavior
Faith Embodied by physician and pastor Stephen Ko takes readers on a journey of being fearfully and wonderfully made, as the scripture puts it. Rather than just viewing ourselves as spirits or minds that do not need the body to think, feel, or worship, Ko argues that the body is central to our existence.
The Names We Hold
Heritage is a declaration of our dignity: we are full, vibrant, dynamic beings with intricacies beyond a black and white world that tries to erase our color. Our heritage names portions of who we are— and to be named is to be known.
The Gospel in “American Born Chinese”: An Introduction to Contextualization
Cross-cultural Identity and the Gospel in The Mission
Was John Chau’s life lived in obedience to God and the spread of the Gospel or was it, as his pastor feared, pursuing “a fantasy"?
Black Cake
Yet the beauty of it is learning that all of those pieces, even the painful ones, fit perfectly together to create the masterpiece that is me. Stories, pain, conflict, joy, resilience, creativity, courage, and even anger have all brushed their unique strokes and colors onto the canvas of my life and invite me into an opportunity to become whole as I welcome all of the pieces of myself.
After Watching Minari
Here we have a story; that doesn’t live happily ever; after but goes on, nevertheless. We don’t know exactly; what happened to grandma, only; she is with them like voices in leaves.
House of Cards: Hollywood's Take on East Asian Women is Flawed
Films that disempower East Asian women tend to fall short because the house of cards was built upon a shaky foundation.
Celebrating Asian Heritage in Children's Literature: An Interview with Tina Cho
In this article, we interview Tina Cho about her work as a children’s author and the value of diverse representation in children’s literature, which characterizes much of her work.