Opening Our Hearts to Lament
Whenever a racial tragedy happens in our country or around the world for that matter, our posture of heart as a family is to first respond with lament. My family laments every time a life is lost because every person’s life has value and meaning.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
To the Employee at the DMV
Book Review: Asian Americans and the Spirit of Racial Capitalism by Jonathan Tran
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.
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.