Interviewed by Joyce Koo Dalrymple Editor’s note: May is AAPI month, formally known as Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. Throughout this month, in addition to several articles we have lined up, we will be featuring Q&As with some of today’s leading thinkers and activists. We call…
An excerpt from Our Unforming: De-Westernizing Spiritual Formation 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. I feel guilty whenever I fall asleep while praying in bed and each time I glance…
As we celebrate AAPI Heritage Month, we must acknowledge the vital role Asian American churches play in North American religious history. These stories must not be erased, overlooked, downplayed, or dismissed. Instead, they must be told, honored, and woven into the broader fabric of American Christianity. The Asian American church…
Recently, I took a spiritual gifts assessment at my church. I love these kinds of tools—the wonder of self-discovery, the language around calling, the idea that the Spirit equips us uniquely for the work of God in the world. So I dove in, curious and open. When I got the…
“For we are but travellers on a journey without as yet a fixed abode; we are on our way, not yet in our native land; we are in a state of longing, not yet of enjoyment. But let us continue on our way, and continue without sloth or respite, so…
When all the world comes crowding in the firehose of bad news spewing into every waking moment The underground torrent of generational trauma threatening to burst its reservoirs already flooding your subconscious Consider how a tree holds space its limbs dancing to the wind’s onslaught creating pockets of calm within…