Narrated by Symphony Chau There is supposed to be a poem here. But nothing is as it’s supposed to be these days. Everything feels upended. It’s hard to keep track of days, much less announcements and official...
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When I organized a panel discussion in college about social justice and the Gospel, I was a new...
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Confession time. When the movie “Crazy Rich Asians” was released in theaters, I wasn’t really...
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Liberation is a praxis: the action and reflection of [people] upon their world in order to...
Read MoreChristmas is the celebration of a birth. But a Christmas Jesus is a clean baby wrapped up in cloths, not a sticky one emerging from Mary’s body. Why is that? Is it our discomfort with our bodies, and in particular, women’s bodies (trans or cis)? The strangeness of the incarnation, this mixing of divine and human, that we don’t want to recognize? I’m not entirely sure. But I know that this Christmas, I want to see birth. I want to see a woman’s body intermingled with the divine. I want to see a record of the pain that comes before the joy.
Read MoreI often wonder what a different Christmas might be like, what Christmas in Asia — in Persia, India, or China might have been like towards the end of the first millennium, when the early church in Asia had been active. How much of our understanding might be a relic of missionary and colonial history? How else have others understood the Incarnation in the past, and how might we broaden our horizons today?
Read MoreGrowing up in a Chinese evangelical-ish church, kneeling was taboo unless it was to God. At my grandma’s funeral, our family had even been excused from the traditional Buddhist prostrations before her casket. Yet here is my art history teacher, already getting on his knees before the painting of Mary inside Cavalletti Chapel.
Read MoreEditor’s note: We are sharing the following transcript from the Progressive Asian American Christian 2019 Conference’s evening plenary message. We are delighted that we are able to share this message from Pastor Vicki Flippin with our Diverging and PAAC communities.
Read MoreConsider the sacred role of desire in worship. Imagine what an abundant life– a life you desire– looks like, feels like, tastes like. This is an invitation to reflect on and seek rest in the promise that abundant life is in fact Love’s own desire for you.
Read MoreThere are few words to exude the deep sorrow and lament that come out of seeing a continuous barrage of gun-violence related news across the news headlines and our daily lives.
Read MoreIs it tainted worship
if my earthly mouth
offers praises in the
colonizer’s tongue?
Many of us grew up in environments that we have come to disagree with. We attended churches with people who ate the same food as us, may have looked like us (not this mixed race Asian-American though), and experienced the world as we did. But none of this was enough to conjure a sense of “home.”
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