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.
'Mixed Blessing' - One and a Half Years Later
God has plans for us…plans that are sometimes very different from our own goals and strategies.
Creating More Asian Tables
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.
AACC Statement on the Dallas, Buffalo & Laguna Woods Shootings
In the aftermath of these shootings, we must address racism with the pursuit of restoration in mind. We cannot allow the shootings in Dallas, Buffalo, or Laguna Woods to tear Black and Asian communities apart. Instead, we must move closer towards each other.
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.
Living with Intention: Exploring the Intersection of Mixed Identities and Faith
For the sake of love and honor, discover the aspects of identity and heritage that might be different from you. Be curious and ask about the ways that their ethnic histories have combined together. And in doing so, we can remember and celebrate the unique differences of each of us, that we are not monolithic in any aspect of life.
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.