Advent in Exile
What can a Japanese American’s humble still life painting teach us about Advent?
Reclaiming a Culturally-Specific Christmas
While Euro-centric art has traditionally portrayed the views of the elite Europeans, more and more, art is used to give voice to the people unheard and pushed aside. In this way, art both reflects the current culture as well as seeks to impact and change the culture.
White Christmas & Asian Advent
Family: It’s Complicated
Jesus didn’t refer to his disciples as his “brother and sister and mother” as a trite greeting in passing. He meant it. Those following him, living life with him, and working with him are his family in a very real way.
Out of the Fun House
Here each of these women, gifted and called, find themselves asking these questions: I don’t believe I’m supposed to be in children’s ministry, to be a missionary, or to marry a pastor, so what am I supposed to do?
Navigating Seminary: A Q&A with AAPI Seminarians
Attending seminary and studying theology can (and should be!) a beautiful experience, as you are literally dedicating your time, energy, and soul to contemplating the highest possible object of thought—our God.
To the Employee at the DMV
Book Review: Asian Americans and the Spirit of Racial Capitalism by Jonathan Tran
Direction for AAPI Seminary Students: A Professor’s Perspective
It is not uncommon for many Asian Americans to come into the academy in an evangelical context and, well, the complaint is typically something along these lines, “They wanted me for my different perspective but they want me to sing the same tune as everyone else. They just want me to do it [sing the tune], looking the way that I do.”
Being Asian American in Seminary: The Good, the Bad, and the Hopeful
Anti-Asian racism with the rise of COVID-19 and concurrent racism in the classroom thrusted me into the world of racial justice, a topic my home communities had not prepared me to engage. I found myself scrambling up the steep learning curve of student activism. Luckily, I was not alone.
The Need for Asian American Theological Scholarship
Asian American theological scholarship should name and challenge the White normativity of conventional theological scholarship. It must allow Asian American seminarians to critically engage conventional theological scholarship instead of passively absorbing it as if it is objective and universal.
An Asian American Seminarian’s Journey Homeward
I found myself wading in a nascent but already rich tradition of theological scholarship that took my history and my future seriously. It dawned on me that there was no part of my life I could hide away from God’s reach. And for the first time in a long time, I wanted to be an Asian American Christian.
Review: In “Portraits of Promised Lands” Chinese American Artist Hung Liu Demonstrates the Dignity of Complexity
As Asian Americans, we move between worlds or hover in between, belonging to both and to neither. Liu reminds us of how much powerful beauty can be found in that space.
Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Month: An Interview of Solidarity in History and Heritage
A tragedy in the West is believing that following Christ means to abandon the goodness of one’s culture or to neglect the culture of others. Along with cultural abandonment is the lack of learning the history of our families, of others and the places we live. Our ethnicities and culture are parts of where we come from, who we are today and how God uses us.
The Underclass Myth and Taking Our Rightful Place at the Foot of the Table
As an Asian American academic, I am frequently asked to speak about the model minority myth. When this happens, I struggle to find things to say, because my own experience has been characterized by a very different stereotype. I call that stereotype the “underclass myth.”
Resurrection in Tragedy: The Asian American Diaspora and The Lynching Tree
Communal Heroism in Shang-Chi & The Legend of the 10 Rings
One of the primary messages of Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings is that superheroes need their families. Our individual identity can only take us so far. A true superhero gains his or her strength through a community, and the interests of the family supersede his or her own.
Black-Asian Christian Solidarity
People of color can do mighty things when we unite with each other, especially when our unity is in Christ.
Cultivating an "Even If" Faith: An Interview with Mitchel Lee
Even if God's goodness to me didn't look the way that I thought it should, I'm going to worship him because he's worthy of worship.
More than "Biblical Manhood and Womanhood"?
The Bible has always showed me that I don’t necessarily need to adhere to the patriarchal structure of society and it was the Bible that helped me understand my value as a woman.