How should Asian American Christians begin the conversation around race and racism? How should we talk about it in the church? Watch our 30-minute discussion with Pastor Bryan Loritts, Dr. Alexander Jun, and SOLA Editor Hannah Chao.
We’ve compiled a list of our Top Anti-Racist Resources for Asian American Christians. We hope you would use this as a jumping-off point to continue your lifelong journeys of dismantling racism.
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Articles From Around The Web
1. Eugene Park: Prayer is Activism
“Pressure to perform activism can naturally turn us into modern-day Pharisees. Our unseen virtue becomes less important to us than our public virtue. We don’t bother with things like silent prayer because it earns us no public points.”
2. Natasha Sistrunk Robinson: Conversations on Race: How We Can Be Beautifully Distinct
“We must look at ourselves and seek the truth about how our lack of knowledge, history, or understanding, and our silence, anger, or apathy prevent the message of Jesus Christ from going forth to all people.”
3. Shai Linne: George Floyd and Me
“Though I’m deeply grieved, I am not without hope. Personally, I have little confidence in our government or policymakers to change the systemic factors that contributed to the George Floyd situation. But my hope isn’t in the government. My hope is in the Lord.”
Books, Podcasts, Music, And More
1. Intervarsity Press: Free eBook
You can get any eBook from this page for free, and IVP will continue to pay the full royalties to the authors. Resources for faithful justice and books by authors of color. Good through June 12.
2. Charlie Dates: I Can’t Breathe
“In the midst of the chaos, confusion, anger, frustration, and division that defines our country and our world currently, Dates called believers to first recognize the nature of breath as God-given and sustained by Christ.”
3. Trip Lee: The Paradox of Being Human
“The reality is that God made us in his image for his own purposes, knows each of us intimately, and loves us in a way that only he can, making us unique in the world. We are also incredibly normal—unexceptional—when compared to the greatness and glory of God.”
4. Aaron Lee: Miscellaneous
Book reviews: The Story Retold by G. K. Beale and Benjamin L. Gladd; The Spiritually Vibrant Home by Don Everts. Our TGIF playlist is available on Spotify, with new music from contributors Sarah Kang and Uzuhan.
Featured This Week On SOLA Network
1. Tim St. John: How Can I Pray for My Oppressed Neighbor?
“Let the stories that you are listening to begin to sink in, let them draw you into the valley of someone else’s suffering, and then begin to pray through the emotional experience of pain that they are facing.”
2. Leo Rhee: Is Abnormal the New Normal? An Update on COVID-19 and the Church in South Korea
“Our church people used their time of semi-quarantine to really draw deeper into God and cultivate themselves for the next season, or they became more passive and drew further apart.”
3. Rachel J. Lee and Moses Y. Lee: Top Antiracist Resources for Asian American Christians
We hope you would use this as a jumping off point to continue your lifelong journeys of dismantling racism.
4. Bryan Loritts, Alexander Jun, Hannah Chao: Interview with Pastor Bryan Loritts and Dr. Alexander Jun
We hope their words help bring clarity and wisdom to Christians and churches so that we can be untied by the blood of Christ and be examples of racial reconciliation to the world.
5. Chris Javier: Why My Chinese-American Church is Cleaning Up in the Streets of Chicago
“If the Christian walk is like sports, the majority of our church members haven’t missed a single practice in years, but haven’t shown up to a single game.”
6. Gene K. Joo: Reflections While Attending a Protest March for George Floyd
“God has been unmasking me, revealing to me a lifetime of deep-seated sin and resentment that I never knew or admitted was there.”
7. TGIF: Roundup for June 5, 2020
In case you missed it: Lecrae: My Thoughts on the Murder of George Floyd / As the Pastor of an Immigrant Church’s English Ministry, How Should I Relate to the Senior Pastor? / George Floyd Left a Gospel Legacy in Houston / Canceled: How the Eastern Honor-Shame Mentality Traveled West.
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General disclaimer: Our link roundups are not endorsements of the positions or lives of the authors.