Happy AAPI Heritage Month! This week we added four new resources pertaining to Asian American Issues, including a movie review on Netflix’s Beef, an interview on pastoring and merging an Asian American and majority culture church, a book review on Doing Asian American Theology, and an interview with academic dean and author Daniel D. Lee.
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Enter to win! Reviews are in my Related Works section below. Thanks to PRP for providing these books for our giveaway, in partnership with my newsletters for @diveindigdeep and FCBC Walnut.
Articles From Around The Web
1. Zachary Lee: My Church Band Raised a Hallelujah on Netflix’s ‘Beef’
LA pastor Jason Min talks about worshiping on set and the bigger conversations the series spurred about the Korean American church.
Related: How to Support Creatives and Interact with Culture: An Interview with Jason Min by Kevin Yi
2. Sara Kyoungah White: A Litany of Humility for Writers
“The writer who is a Christian is thus ultimately concerned not with numbers, followers, and book deals, but is rooted in the daily faithfulness of drawing from secret wells, making sentences to be clothed in prayer and cast into the wind. We offer up these dry sticks with visions of fire, hoping that the bones of our words would rattle to life.”
Related: Praying Before Meals like the Men of Gondor by Sara Kyoungah White
3. Tim Challies: Behind-the-Scenes: Christian Publishing
“The process generally moves quite slowly and very methodically. But it is proven and effective and results in the books you have come to know and love.”
Related: Learning and Writing about God and the Church: An Interview with Tim Challies by Aaron Lee
The SOLA College Writing Cohort is our new writing cohort for college-age students to receive mentorship and training as young Christian writers. Editorial Board member Soojin Park will personally be leading this initiative, and she is very excited at the prospect of nurturing the next generation of Asian American thinkers and writers who will help encourage and edify the Church!
Books, Podcasts, Music, And More
1. 9Marks: Life and Works with Tom Schreiner
Mark Dever chats with Tom Schreiner about his conversion and his ministry as a pastor and theologian.
2. Grace in Common: Neo-Calvinism vs. Paleo-Calvinism
“In this episode we continue our discussion of Cory and Gray’s book Neo-Calvinism: A Theological Introduction, by talking about Neo-Calvinism’s relationship to the broader Reformed tradition. In what sense is Neo-Calvinism Calvinistic? In what sense is it new?”
3. Aaron Lee: Related Works
Book Reviews: Road Map to Jesus by Alistair Chalmers. The Gospel of Jesus by Loraine Boettener. Daily Devotions with Herman Bavinck by Donald K. McKim. Listen to our TGIF playlist on Spotify. Join my Asian American Worship Leaders Facebook group.
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Featured This Week On SOLA Network
1. Aaron Lee: Doing Asian American Theology: An Interview with Daniel D. Lee
How can Asian Americans think about how their identity intersects with their faith? InterVarsity Press author Daniel D Lee speaks with SOLA Network’s Editorial Curator Aaron Lee on how Asian Americans “can actually bring all of ourselves to Christ.”
2. Aaron Lee: Integrate Your Faith: A Book Review of “Doing Asian American Theology”
What does identity have to do with theology? In Doing Asian American Theology, Daniel D. Lee discusses a contextual framework for faith and practice, focusing especially on Asian American identity and its relationship to Christianity.
3. Steve S. Chang: When Asian American and Majority Cultures Merge, Part 1: An Interview with Paul Kim
“Merging two churches is difficult. Merging two churches with two different cultural, ethnic, and generational backgrounds seems impossible. But is it still possible? SOLA Network presents interviews with pastors Paul Kim and Michael Lee to help the church understand the dynamics that worked in these two mergers—that worked.”
4. Heidi Wong: Digesting Beef
As long as we believe God is holding something back, we won’t have eyes to see all the gifts we already have. The longer this loss of vision persists, the more likely we will cultivate a sleeping rage within.
5. TGIF: Roundup for April 28, 2023
Beef and Belief / What Keeps you Going when Ministry gets hard? / True Servanthood in the Footsteps of Jesus / A Recipe for Teaching Your Child Biblical Theology / Sam D. Kim Talks About ‘A Holy Haunting’
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General disclaimer: Our link roundups are not endorsements of the positions or lives of the authors.