May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and we are grateful to share this remarkable testimony from our friend Matthew D. Kim: We Are Not Immune: Lessons from a Mental Health Crisis. Find more resources in our Identity & Health collection.
For Mother’s Day, check out our Moms & Motherhood collection. Featured authors include Faith Chang, Amy Loh, Alice Kim, Heidi Tai, Grace Lung, and Kristen & Karisa You.
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Aaron Lee, Editorial Curator
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Articles From Around The Web
1. Sara Kyoungah White: The Gift of Loneliness: 3 Ways God Uses Our Desert Seasons
“What my mentor had prayed over me in my college days was true: loneliness, when in the hand of God, can indeed be a gift. Sometimes seasons of loneliness stretch on for longer than we would like. Sometimes the ending is different from what we had imagined. But always, the gift is this: under the care of our ever-present Father, loneliness will bloom into promised love.”
2. Gray Sutanto: What is Neo-Calvinism?
“Christianity is not just a theological confession for the church, but rather it’s also about how the confession implicates every area of life.”
3. Duke Kwon: ‘Memorizing’ the Scars of South Korea’s Gwangju Massacre
“Chun Woo-won’s apology for his military dictator grandfather’s sins is Nehemiah in action.”
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. Ekstasis: Mended to Make: An Interview with Makoto Fujimura by Chris Carter
“Artist and author Makoto Fujimura, known also as Mako, is no stranger to the perplexing questions that silence raises, both in the concept itself, but also in the titular book he bases much of his theological pondering upon.”
2. 9Marks: On Missions Work in Central Asia, with Tyler Markson and George Jamieson (Mission Talk, Ep. 13)
“In this episode of Missions Talk, Ryan and Mack chat with two missionaries in Central Asia about their ministry and work.”
3. Aaron Lee: Related Works
Book Review: True to His Word by Jon Bloom. Listen to our TGIF playlist on Spotify. Join my Asian American Worship Leaders Facebook group.
For Mother’s Day, check out our Moms & Motherhood collection! Featured authors include Faith Chang, Amy Loh, Alice Kim, Heidi Tai, Grace Lung, and Kristen & Karisa You.
Featured This Week On SOLA Network
1. Aaron Lee: The Great Reformer: A Book Review of “An Explorer’s Guide to John Calvin”
Who was John Calvin, and what did he think about God? While some might be familiar with the term Calvinism, what did he contribute to the Reformed faith? In An Explorer’s Guide to John Calvin, Yudah Thianto takes you on a tour of the life and mind of the great theologian John Calvin.
2. Matthew D. Kim: We Are Not Immune: Lessons from a Mental Health Crisis
“In 2022, I almost died – twice. The first time was during a battle with COVID pneumonia. The second happened several months later when chronic insomnia spiraled into depression, psychosis, and suicidal ideation.”
3. Heidi Wong: Digesting Beef
“Left to our own devices, we may be prone to channeling rage sharpened by rationality. If we are already heading down this path, it may be worth it to stop and ask ourselves if there is a better story, making sure to digest it all before carrying on.”
4. Rick Hardison: 10 Takeaways from “Should Every Church be Multiethnic?”
“Ethnicity matters. It’s a good thing. It’s a good gift God’s given us. And we will not run from it. We will not pretend it doesn’t exist, but we should lean into it, and ask God to use it to further his mission.”
5. TGIF: Roundup for May 5, 2023
My Church Band Raised a Hallelujah on Netflix’s ‘Beef’ / A Litany of Humility for Writers / Behind-the-Scenes: Christian Publishing / Life and Works with Tom Schreiner / Neo-Calvinism vs. Paleo-Calvinism
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General disclaimer: Our link roundups are not endorsements of the positions or lives of the authors.