Lament, Despair, and Hope
By Rick Barry
Many evangelical Christians confuse lamentation for despair. This confusion can cut us off from one of the most powerful tools in our spiritual arsenal.
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By Rick Barry
Many evangelical Christians confuse lamentation for despair. This confusion can cut us off from one of the most powerful tools in our spiritual arsenal.
By Dorcas Cheng-Tozun
Originally posted September 25, 2018
Yes, businesses can do good…and I’m as surprised by this as you are.
When my soon-to-be-husband, Ned, told me that he was applying to business school, I was horrified.
By Chris Rice
Practicing Restorative Justice
Polarized settings tend to be dominated by an either-or mindset. It’s oppositional thinking. Either you are Right or Left, and ne’er the twain shall meet. They are too divided and opposed to coexist.
By La Thao
Thi Bui’s illustrated memoir The Best We Could Do tells the story of her family’s escape from Vietnam and the challenges of surviving as refugees in a new country. In an attempt to understand her parents better, Bui documents her family’s past and discovers the sacrifices her parents made for the sake of the family’s survival.
By Jerry Z. Park
As we approach the end of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month (the inclusion of Native Hawaiians occurring in 2021), here are a few quick-takes about this diverse collection of people groups.
By Erin Jean Warde
When I meet with a recovery coaching client for the first time, I ask for a brief history of their relationship with alcohol. I listen for the narratives inside a person’s drinking history.
By Nikole Lim
Shooting “wide open” allows me to capture the diverse beauty of people’s faces, laden with untold stories, while softening the distractions of the background, bringing their humanity to the forefront.
By E. David de Leon
It’s May in academia, which means wrapping up the semester, celebrating graduates, and working on syllabi for the upcoming school year. It also happens to be AAPI heritage month! While I’m not teaching an Asian American theology class this upcoming year, this is a list of four books that have been incredibly important to me as an Asian American theologian, titles that I would put on my syllabus in the future.
By Janna Louie
Originally published January 14, 2022
Jonathan Tran’s Asian Americans and the Spirit of Racial Capitalism seeks to change the current discourse on antiracism and Christian theology by centering Asian Americans.
By Nikki Toyama-Szeto
Sometimes data is just numbers. But I like to tell my kids that statistics are numbers that tell a story. In honor of Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month, today’s list includes places to find data about the Asian American Pacific Islander community.
By Leah Silvieus
David de Leon speaks to the relationship between the complexities of understanding “Asian American Christian identity,” the interconnectedness of journeys toward justice, and what is next for him in his vocational path as a doctoral student in Systematic Theology at Fordham University.
By Nikki Toyama-Szeto
I’m a list person. Give me a goal and I’ll quickly turn it into a list. Packing lists, to-do lists, booklists, all of it.
This month, as part of Asian American Pacific Islander History Month, we’ll be sharing some lists we hope will be helpful for those within the AAPI community and their friends.
The European TV channel Arte interviewed CSA Director Nikki Toyama-Szeto for a new three-part documentary series that examines the rise of evangelical Christianity around the globe. Focusing especially on evangelicalism’s impact on the public sphere, the secular narrative exposes the uncomfortable relationship between this religious movement and political power structures.
By Vina Mogg
Originally published Jun 26, 2018
I remember the first time I held a watercolor brush in my hand. There was something therapeutic about the weight of it between my fingers, the shape of the brush tapering at the end just so.
By Sarah Withrow King
Originally published Dec 6, 2016
If you’ve cared for an animal through death, you know it’s a sacrificial commitment, both financially and emotionally. Because our commitment to the animals in our homes is lifelong, it means that we suffer loss regularly.
By Miguel De La Torre
What good is the pursuit of the intellect if it does not contribute to the betterment of humanity? Eurocentric scholarship has been reduced to knowing, not transforming. For those who are minoritized by Eurocentric academics, the goal of the scholar who is prophetic is to seek harmony with what the future might bring while remaining faithful to one’s beliefs and/or worldview—providing encouragement when it leads toward justice, dire warning when it does not.
By Victor Andre Greene
Originally published October 2021
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I elongate my sentences and leave long gaps between each phrase to give room for processing.
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