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.
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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Aaron Lee, Editorial Curator
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Articles From Around The Web
1. Isabel Ong: Amazing Grace, How Sweet the Asian Girl Name
“How did a name the Puritans made popular take off in Japanese, Korean, and Chinese immigrant circles?”
2. Kristen Montgomery: Don’t Let Your Culture Keep You from Christlikeness
“The goal is to learn to distinguish our cultural tendencies from biblical truths.”
3. Christopher Kou: Beyond “A People, Not a Place”: What the Church Really Is
“We often hear that the church isn’t a building; it’s people. And that’s true. Church isn’t where you meet. It’s who meets. However, this statement can become clichéd, repeated so often that we miss the profound meaning behind it.”
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. The House Church in China Podcast: Yang Xiaohui
The House Church in China Podcast tells the stories of the modern Chinese house church. Their first season explores the true story of Yang Xiaohui, the wife of a Chinese house church pastor who was taken from her children and put in prison.
2. TGC’s GLO Podcast: How to Use Social Media for Meaningful Engagement
Blair Linne, Aixa de López, Sharon Dickens, and Soojin Park discuss how to use social media in a meaningful and gospel-informed way. They touch on their preferred platforms, distinguishing between influencing others on social media versus being considered an “influencer,” and they identify when taking a break from it is a wise decision for our own hearts.
3. Aaron Lee: Related Works
Book reviews: Anxiety: Finding the Better Story by Liz Edrington, Amy Carmichael (Children’s Book) by Hunter Beless. 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. Daniel K. Eng: Exploring the Nordic Chinese Christian Experience: An Interview with Pastor Billy Lo
Pastor Billy Lo is a part of the Nordic Chinese Christian community. Interviewed by Daniel K. Eng of the SOLA Network, their conversation sheds light on the challenges, successes, and spiritual needs of the Nordic Chinese diaspora.
2. Aaron Lee: Honor and Shame: A Book Review of “The Cross in Context”
What does the atonement actually mean? In The Cross in Context, Brad Vaughn (formerly Jackson Wu) walks you through reconsidering biblical metaphors for atonement.
3. Moses Y. Lee: Recognizing Patterns of Subtle Spiritual Abuse Before It’s Too Late
The abusive patterns in cults are prevalent in “healthy” churches all around us but in subtle, less severe forms. Spiritual abuse operates less like an on-off power switch and more like a dimmer switch.
4. SOLA Network: Books & Reviews
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.
5. TGIF: Roundup for June 2, 2023
4 Realities in Jakarta That Expose Western Judgments of Christianity / What Risks Can Moms Take? Following Jesus with Small Children / Our Beloved Ones Don’t Become Angels When They Die / Unashamed with Irene Sun / Curtis Chang Says Anxiety Is Opportunity
6. SOLA Network: TGIF Subscription
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General disclaimer: Our link roundups are not endorsements of the positions or lives of the authors.