Celebrating Culture in a Mixed Family: An "It's Complicated" Interview with Shawna Klatt
My advice is to love yourself and appreciate your Asian beauty. You don’t need to look or act a certain way and there’s no such thing as not being Asian enough.
Church Community and Global Identity: An “It’s Complicated” Interview with Justin & Carolyn Fung
The way I see it, it isn’t just nice to worship Jesus and be formed in Christlikeness with people who are different from us; we actually need each other to experience the fullness of God—we cannot do it without each other.
Navigating a Multiracial Marriage: An Interview with Andrea and Jairus Justus
In the Bible, I see a God who deeply values cultural expression and connection. Holding our identity in Christ as our highest and truest identity doesn't mean that culture doesn't matter at all.
Reclaiming Mixed Identity and Dignity
Being Mixed does not mean you are part of one culture and part of another; being Mixed means being fully you, as well as the full mix of the entirety of your ethnic and cultural background. You are wholly, uniquely you: A whole, Mixed, beautiful creation bearing God’s image.
Beyond BTS and Squid Game: Leveraging Korean Pop Culture for Deeper Conversations
On one hand, I love that Korean culture is no longer at the fringes and instead showing up in mainstream American media, often making their way into my classroom discussions and written assignments. On the other hand, I am also keenly aware of the fact that these elements, while true products of my motherland, only represent a fraction of what makes Korea, Korea.
Turning Red and Media Critique as Parents
Isn’t that what art is about: coming to appreciate or understand something or someone quite different from you? . . . Turning Red may not matter to me in the same way as it matters to others, and that is ok. I can still appreciate it as someone else’s expression of themselves where I am along for the ride.
Invisible Book Review
Invisible courageously offers full witness to the invisibility of Asian women and to a God who sees. Kim ultimately asks her reader to reimagine faith in the God who makes all visible, whose spirit is in all people, and whose reign never ceases–defining our today.
Jesus Sees Us: A Reflection on the Atlanta Spa Shootings
The tragedy and following narrative of what happened in Atlanta last year helped me see that I am not alone but have been part of systemic discrimination, racism, sexism, and xenophobia that had clouded my ability to see me.
One Year Later
And one year later, I find myself also holding 제사 for these women who were killed—I did not know them personally, but they were my ummas, my imos, my sisters. I want to remember them and I want them to be remembered—not for how their life on earth came to an end, but for how they lived.
The Joy Luck Club – The Crack in the Dam of Asian American Representation Three Decades Later
Finding God Through Mental Illness
While I don’t believe that God causes sickness, including mental illness, I believe He can redeem anything. What the enemy meant for evil, God uses for good.
Reading the Bible Beyond White Masculinity: Author Q&A with Pastor Dan Hyun
So many Christian books are written in and for White male voices. What would it look like if that was not the assumed default? In this author Q&A, we talked with Pastor Dan Hyun about his recently released book The Bible in 52 Weeks for Men: A Yearlong Bible Study Companion and how he wanted to use his Korean American perspectives and experiences to encourage us to engage the Bible and masculinity in and through our cultural backgrounds.
AACC Statement Condemning the Killings of Michelle Go and Christina Yuna Lee
The Asian American Christian Collaborative condemns the horrific killings of Michelle Go and Christina Yuna Lee.
5 Things to Know About Indian Immigrants
The tragic death of this vulnerable Indian family is a moment for us, as Christians, to grow in our awareness of untold immigrant stories like theirs and to see this tragedy through a theological lens. Here are five facts to help us respond to the reality of Indian immigrants with empathy and action.
Why it Matters: The Need for Asian American Theological Scholarship
In “The Need for Asian American Theological Scholarship,” Chiwon Kim highlights how the domination of white male voices has shaped what has been accepted as “conventional theology.”
Book Review: Power Women: Stories of Motherhood, Faith, and the Academy
What if there was a way to see our different callings as women - as mothers, wives, academics, and ministry leaders - not as forces pulling us in different directions, but as a single effort working toward a common goal? That is, in many ways, the question that Power Women seeks to answer.
God Who Sees Us
I hope that "God Who Sees Us" can be an anthem for Asian American Christians as we continue to face racism but also as we grow in our understanding of who we are and develop our unique voices.
AACC New Year's Hopes and Resolutions
To kick off the new year, AACC staff share their New Year hopes and resolutions as it relates to AACC and our work to honor the imago Dei in all of us while seeking to hear the voices of often marginalized AAPI Christians.
My Friends Have a Car in Louisiana
‘Tis the Season to be Jolly?
In the middle of the mess, we can look to God in lament. We can draw close to the Father.