We released two new interviews: How to Understand People Who Doubt: An Interview with Sam D. Kim and Praying For Discipleship In The Chinese Christian Community In The UK: An Interview with Josh Shek.
Save the date! “Writing the Next Chapter,” the 2024 Asian American Leadership Conference, will take place on April 23-24 in Orange County, California. More info coming soon.
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Articles From Around The Web
1. Isabel Ong: Imagine Dragons More Biblically
The Chinese boat festival reminds us that Revelation’s serpent transcends Western and Eastern cultural concepts, say Asian biblical scholars.
Related: The Dragon And The Rooster by Heidi Tai
2. Bobby Scott: Young Men with Holy Habits
“Holy habits are means of grace that fan the flame of your love for God and keep his love for you before your eyes.”
Related: The Church and the Way Forward: America’s Long, Troubled Road Towards Racial Reconciliation, Part 4 by Bobby Scott
3. Kira Nelson: Motherhood Isn’t Martyrdom
“Many of our taglines overemphasize the pain of motherhood to the exclusion of the delight.”
Related: Moms & Motherhood Collection
Our new Books and Reviews page is your one-stop resource for all of your reading needs. It features Asian American authors and issues, book recommendations, and interviews.
Books, Podcasts, Music, And More
1. Tim Challies: All the Compassions of All the Tender Fathers
“God did not create human fathers and then begin to describe himself in reference to them. Rather, God has always been Father and created human fathers in reference to him.”
Related: Like Father, Like Son: The Obedience of Joseph, the Father of Jesus by Aaron Lee
2. TGC GLO Podcast: Fulfilling the Biblical Mandate to Care for Orphans and Widows
“In this episode of Glo, Blair Linne, Aixa de López, Sharon Dickens, and Soojin Park discuss caring for orphans through foster care, adoption, and discipleship, no matter your season of life.”
Related: Supporting Adoptees and Parents of Adoptees: An Interview with Jonathan Holmes
3. Aaron Lee: Related Works
Book Review: All Who are Weary by Sarah J. Hauser, True to His Word by Jon Bloom. Listen to our TGIF playlist on Spotify. Join my Asian American Worship Leaders Facebook group.
For Father’s Day, check out our Dads & Fatherhood collection! Featured authors include Cory Ishida, Daniel K. Eng, Tom Sugimura, Larry Lin, David J. Park, and P. J. Tibayan.
Featured This Week On SOLA Network
1. Daniel K. Eng: Praying for Discipleship in the Chinese Christian Community in the UK: An Interview with Josh Shek
What’s it like growing up Chinese in the United Kingdom? What are the challenges of immigrant churches or second-generation churches? How can we pray for and encourage our brothers and sisters there?
2. Aaron Lee: From Doubt to Faith: Book Review of “A Holy Haunting”
“Those who doubt their faith will find a friend in Kim. For firm believers, you will be equipped to come alongside those who struggle. My heart was moved to worship, thanking God for the gift of faith and anticipating the day for when my faith will become sight.”
3. Aaron Lee: How to Understand People Who Doubt: An Interview with Sam D. Kim
Sam D. Kim, author of A Holy Haunting: Why Faith Isn’t a Leap but a Series of Staggers from One Safe Place to Another, discusses spiritual puberty, deconstruction, and crossing the swamp of doubt.
4. P. J. Tibayan: Do I Really Have To Care About Structural Racism?
“I was a pastor who did not faithfully disciple and pastor my church against ethnocentric oppression in America and toward ethnic harmony, and God led me to repentance.”
5. TGIF: Roundup for June 16, 2023
Building Bridges: How God Invites Youth Pastors Into the Work of Relational Reconciliation / Opening Our Eyes to Art / How Spurgeon Got His Congregation
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General disclaimer: Our link roundups are not endorsements of the positions or lives of the authors.