Invisible Leaders
When I think about my grandmother, I wonder, “Wasn’t her life also a ministry?” Perhaps she was not welcome to hold a title or a position in the church, but I believe my grandmother’s life looked a lot more like the life of Jesus than the lives of some of the male church leaders.
Social Justice for the Sensitive Soul: A Pop-Psych Guide to Activism
“Finding your own way in social justice work requires courage, creativity, wisdom, and an openness to possibility. It requires shaking off the unhealthy and unrealistic expectations of others. It asks us to embrace our differences as beautiful and our unique personalities and perspectives as gifts, rather than comparing ourselves to others.”
Creatively Narrating the Stories of Multiracial Individuals: A Conversation with Becky White
My own bitterness towards the Korean society and culture followed me for a long time. I hope I can relieve my fellow mixed Koreans of that same bitterness by providing the words to help us understand ourselves. Perhaps this isn’t explicitly a “Christian” tenet wrapped neatly in a Bible verse; but everything I do, I hope it may be founded in the honest and joyful love of Christ.
Two Halves Make a Hole
When you put two halves together you make a whole. This is basic math. But when you merge different ethnicities the rules of math change.
Book Review: Passport to Shame: From Asian-Immigrant to American Addict by Sam Louie
Sam’s former profession as a storyteller is apparent as he vividly paints a picture as though you are there with him in his humble beginnings and follow him through his highs and lows.
Communi-tea
We are not a myth, Of a minority nor a monolith, Foreign, we are perpetually not. Asians aren’t a footnote, An afterthought
I Didn’t Go to Church This Year…
How can we find peace and hope in the midst of the realities of relationships, anxieties, and responsibilities? Where is the joy?
Not Korean Enough: Experiences of Imposter Syndrome While Leading a Study Abroad, and a Prayer in Response
I have a confession to make: I am not as “Korean” as I appear to be.
Reclaiming Chuseok and Mid-Autumn Festival for My Children
Teaching my children has been extremely meaningful in my own journey of reclaiming the forgotten parts of my identity, even those parts I did not know had been forgotten. There is a deep healing in reconnecting and rediscovering our roots.
The Way Forward Requires Looking Back
Indeed, if we want to understand how to integrate faith and Asian American identity in our current context, we need to learn how Asian Americans in days past wrestled with these same questions and took the steps that brought us to where we are today.
What Box Do I Check?
The world simply doesn’t know what to do with us yet, but they will.
Navigating Spaces as a 1st Gen Indian American
Bridge building is complicated and messy work, and we must intentionally move towards it.
Asian Enough
The more I’ve continued to delve into not just what it means to be Asian or White, but what it means to be Asian and White, the more I’ve been able to understand truly how deep the love and intention the Father’s love is for me
“So Alive When I’m With Us” Retrospective
In writing on the exhibition, Megan Kim stated: “To work in co-creation with another woman of color, someone who also lives within particular marginalizations, is to threaten the ways in which whiteness would strive to divide us.”
Saving the Multiverse One Relationship at a Time: A Dialogue About Everything Everywhere All at Once
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.
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.