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.
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.”
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.
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.
Hey, is there something wrong with me?
I found myself in spaces where I was the only woman of color in a room full of white male pastors. Was there something wrong with me?
Stagecoach of God or Searching for Power—An AAPI Christian response to Jesus and John Wayne
So much of our experience as Asian Americans is the constant struggle to honor our own culture and experiences while being good citizens without losing what makes us unique.