As a Korean American woman called to both pastoral ministry and academia, I never felt fully at home in the dominant culture—or even in some of the spaces that were supposed to form and support me.

During seminary (about 20 years ago), I often felt the dissonance between the required readings and professors’ perspectives, and the ways people in my family’s Filipino American and Filipino Canadian churches connected with God and practiced their faith.

One of my current research areas explores how ethnicity, race, and the Old Testament intersect.

Growing up in Asian American churches, I didn’t hear much about lament.

For much of my life, my experience of the spiritual life has been full of guilt and shame for not doing enough and not being enough.

Asian American churches have played a vital role in North American religious history.

Recently, I took a spiritual gifts assessment at my church.

For we are but travellers on a journey without as yet a fixed abode

When all the world comes crowding in

In a world that sometimes makes you feel invisible, we want you to know that God sees you and takes great delight in you.

O Lord, I am uprooted from my concrete jungle,

These are chaotic and confusing times.

Many of us grew up in families or households where space was often a privilege, not a given.

I know how heavy your heart feels right now.

The Spacious Leadership Framework is inspired by Psalm 18:19