For the first time, you can watch the video recording of our podcast on YouTube! Editor Hannah Chao gives an update on SOLA Digital, discusses our top 5 articles so far in 2020, and shares what she’s been working on creatively. Listen on Spotify and Podcasts.
Hannah interviewed Pastor Raymond Chang and Dr. Michelle Reyes from the Asian American Christian Collaborative. Read the article or listen to their 40-minute conversation on YouTube, Spotify, and Podcasts.
We asked our SOLA Network council to share words for churches and leaders during the Coronavirus crisis. This week, Owen Lee exhorts us in Replacing our American Hope with a Christian Hope. Have you been helped by this series? Send me your feedback on Twitter or Instagram.
Articles From Around The Web
1. Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra: The Cancer of Racism amid COVID-19
“‘This COVID situation seems to be bringing to the surface all the latent and subtle racism that has been hiding in our hearts,’ said TGC president Julius Kim, who is Korean American.’”
2. Jeremy Yong: Make Sure Your Members Are Christians, Not Just Immigrants
“Shared cultural norms and forms may attract immigrants and ex-pats, but they’re not what fundamentally gathers Christ’s church.”
3. Tyler St. Clair: Pandemic Priorities for Church Planters
“Our churches need fully engaged and compassionate shepherds, not just spiritual content providers.”
Books, Podcasts, Music, And More
1. 9Marks: COVID-19 & The Church
A new site dedicated to helping pastors in a pandemic. FAQs, articles, and audio/video resources are available.
2. 9Marks: Free eBook or Audiobook
Download a free book from the Church Questions series.
3. Aaron Lee: Miscellaneous
Book Reviews: God’s Glory Revealed in Christ edited by Denny Burk, James M. Hamilton Jr., and Brian Vickers, Gentle and Lowly by Dane C. Ortlund, The Book of Ecclesiastes by Alabaster, and Disruptive Witness by Alan Noble. Our TGIF playlist is available on Spotify, with new music from contributors Sarah Kang and Uzuhan.
Featured This Week On SOLA Network
1. Adam Ch’ng: Should I Be Baptized Against My Parents’ Wishes?
“Ironically, God’s care for your earthly family magnifies his greater care for your spiritual family. It is precisely because our families matter that God’s family matters so much more.”
2. Faith Chang: Loving Others Even In Social Isolation
“Whether through prayer, hospitality, or a quick check-in, actively serving another person in love may turn out to be God’s grace to you today.”
3. Tim St. John: Bring Our Grief and Lament to God During COVID-19
“What do we do when we cannot share a meal, hug a friend, or wipe away a tear? Where do we go with our grief when we are limited from physical closeness with others?”
4. Hannah Chao, Raymond Chang, Michelle Reyes: How the Church can Combat Anti-Asian Racism: A Conversation with Pastor Ray Chang and Dr. Michelle Reyes
How Asian Americans are awakening to the reality of systemic racism, how knowing history can help us to frame our conversations on race, and how churches can help speak on the sin of racism.
5. Owen Y. Lee: Replacing our American Hope with a Christian Hope
“COVID-19 is an opportunity for people who are similar to my context —Korean American, middle-upper class, live in the suburbs, highly educated — to replace the functional American hope that we all live with, with true Christian hope.”
6. Fred Mok: A Novel Leprosy and the Death of Touch
“He welcomes the exile, sojourner, and outcast. He cares for the widow and the orphan. He stretches his hand out to the leper. I’m drawn to Jesus because I am not like him a
nd I need his touch to transform me.”
7. TGIF: Roundup for May 1, 2020
In case you missed it: Exposed in Times of Crisis, Four Habits Not to Fall into in Online Worship, and Zacchaeus: The Sinner Who Was Seen.
8. SOLA Network: TGIF Subscription
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General disclaimer: Our link roundups are not endorsements of the positions or lives of the authors.