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.

Affirmative has never been a perfect tool to level the playing field of educational diversity. But it has made an important impact for thousands such as myself who otherwise were overlooked and not given a fair chance.

Over the years, trying to emulate my peers and my social justice heroes—Martin Luther King, Mother Teresa, Óscar Romero, and others—led me to burnout again and again. Each episode of burnout was worse than the last, until I found myself in bed, debilitatingly depressed, unable to work and barely able to function, for almost a year. I finally began to understand that I was following the way of other people more than the way of the cross. 

There are lots of reasons that people own guns. For comfort, to collect, as part of their jobs, for personal defense, or for sport. But as pastors and as a church, we cannot ignore and be silent on guns anymore.

To take a stand against gun violence requires more than decrying it from the pulpit, we must go to local legislators and communities to bring about tangible change.

In the coming weeks and months, we want to share with you some of the big dreams we have for us as Asian American Christians. And we want to hear the big dreams that are stirring in your hearts and souls too.

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.

I sensed God saying my voice did matter to God, and really, it’s not about me, but it’s about what God is already doing. God is used to working with broken, messy, unfinished people anyway, so I’m nothing new.

How can Asian American Christians embody our faith through and in our civic and political engagement? That is the core question that Joshua Wu will be addressing as he joins the AACC team as the political engagement specialist.

Anti-Asian attacks have been skyrocketing at an alarming rate since the start of the pandemic. Yet there has been a gaping void of evangelical voices publicly speaking up to defend their Asian American brothers and sisters.

With her election as the first woman Vice President, Kamala Harris also brings the issue of ethnicity to the forefront. The gospel of our brown multiethnic savior says that she—and all of us—can and should embrace the entirety of ourselves as created and beloved beings.

As a Biden-Harris administration begins, Asian American Christians must continue the faithful work of love and justice across all society’s spheres.

The rioters' use of Christian symbols at the Capitol insurrection was blasphemous, and I wonder how we Asan American Christ followers might respond to our nation's political crisis and the anti-Asian hate we're experiencing.

We still live with the legacy of historical, heretical beliefs. But God can make us new.

Asian American Christians are among the least politically engaged in the country. This needs to change.

Asian American Christians are uniquely positioned to work toward healing our planet.

As we near a critical election, now is the time for the church to act—through prayer, fasting, and repentance.

God doesn’t have limits on the people and issues he cares about. We shouldn’t impose those on him as we cast our ballots.

Many Asian Americans typically don’t vote. These resources can empower you to help change that.

I was taught that getting into trouble was always a bad thing. Rep. John Lewis showed me otherwise.

The burden-sharing between communities during this time of activism should encourage us all.

We don’t fit the typical evangelical mold, which can be a good thing.

AAPI Christian leaders have historically relied on the white evangelical megaphone. But our unique voice carries its own weight.

The work needs to continue. Here are eight Black Christian-led organizations you can support in the long term.

A Hmong-American pastor and a Korean-American pastor share recommendations for seeking healing, reconciliation, and justice in a time of deep grief and anger.

An author and friend to the Asian-American community shares why he didn’t hesitate to sign the AACC statement on anti-Asian racism in the time of COVID-19.

The underlying intention behind President Trump’s symbolic immigration suspension is clearly driven by nativism. In nativism, immigrants are a threat and a burden to the American economy and American jobs and workers.

Since the first cases of COVID-19 were reported in the United States, certain words and phrases have been frequently used by our political leaders and their spokespeople: Foreign virus. Chinese virus. Kung flu. Wuhan flu.

Juneteenth celebrates what many refer to as a “second Independence Day” for our nation (Juneteenth Foundation), marking a mix of freedom, injustice, and progress.

People of color can do mighty things when we unite with each other, especially when our unity is in Christ.

Do you know why the Atlanta Massacre was racially motivated? Here are 3 reasons that explains it clearly.

Anti-Asian attacks have been skyrocketing at an alarming rate since the start of the pandemic. Yet there has been a gaping void of evangelical voices publicly speaking up to defend their Asian American brothers and sisters.

In the church’s pursuit of justice, lessons from Filipino American history and experience can helpfully shape our approach to the Scriptures.

We still live with the legacy of historical, heretical beliefs. But God can make us new.

Asian Americans have often been marginalized in our country’s history. That doesn’t mean we can’t do something about it.

When faced with the double trauma of the pandemic and anti-Asian racism, we need time to rest and lay our burdens at the feet of Jesus.

How I’m striving to affirm black lives matter by learning to be a good ally to my wife.

The burden of fixing America’s racism shouldn’t fall on the shoulders of Black communities.

The idea came out of historically discriminatory practices, and its damage continues today.

White privilege today has its roots in slavery. Until we understand this, we can’t move forward.

An AACC-recommended list of books, publications, articles, and films by Black leaders, thinkers, and activists to understand the African-American experience and anti-Blackness in America.

So, you want to begin fighting anti-Black racism? Here’s how to start.

What it means to be an Asian man in a Black-and-white conflict.

From cultural dirt to social responsibility, our societal perception of face coverings affects how we see one another—and ourselves.

The killing of Ahmaud Arbery is a modern-day lynching. We even have video proof of how the twenty-five-year-old Black man was gruesomely gunned down.

The Asian [American] community is not the enemy here; this horrific virus is the enemy, NO ONE should be treated with the hate and indecency that Asian Americans have suffered.

We don’t always have answers, but it’s important to talk to my kids and navigate it together. We don’t have the privilege of keeping quiet on this one.

The beauty I found in this film was not necessarily in the expansive multiverse of infinite realities it created, or even the concept of verse jumping between any of them at will, but in the finite. At the heart of this film is the portrayal of a slow, messy journey of the healing of generational trauma between a 1st and 2nd generation Asian American mother and daughter.

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.

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.

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.

The critically acclaimed film Minari paints a powerful picture about environments of belonging in the United States.