Read all the way through for info on our Fall Leaders’ Dialogue event, a book giveaway, and our book reviews collection!
This week featured interviews with Jonathan Holmes on Adoptees and Parents and Jason Min on Creatives and Culture. You can find more videos from our Asian American Leadership Conference on our YouTube channel.
Hannah Chao’s Editor’s Pick is Watching Bluey as an Asian American Father by Larry Lin, and my article on The Best Books I Read in 2022 by Asian American Authors (So Far) was our Top Trending.
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Join us for our Fall 2022 SOLA Leaders’ Dialogue: The Potentials and Perils of Working With the Asian Immigrant Church. Sep 8, 2022, 9am–1:30pm, New Life Presbyterian Church of Orange County, CA. Speakers include Steve Chang (Living Hope Community Church), with Ben Pun (Anchor Church), Daniel Low (Bread of Life Church), Will Chang (New Life Presbyterian Church), and Kevin Yi (Church Everyday). The first 100 registrants will receive a FREE copy of Analog Christian by Jay Y. Kim (IVP), and coffee/pastries and lunch are provided for all attendees.
Articles From Around The Web
1. Jacob Zheng: More than the Wealth of the World: Psalm 119:9-16
“Visible wealth is like the ring in Lord of the Rings: it manipulates the hearts of all who touch it. Everything else becomes unimportant.”
2. Brett Fredenberg: Spurgeon the Pastor: An Interview with Geoff Chang
“In learning from Spurgeon’s example, my hope is that pastors and church leaders will grow to love the church, the Bride of Christ, and be ever more committed to shepherding her faithfully according to God’s Word.”
3. Edmund Fong: Gender Dysphoria and the Body-Soul Relationship
“After presenting the phenomenon of gender dysphoria as a state of consciousness experienced by the individual, I explore how the two major anthropological frameworks of materialism and substance dualism account for the conscious state of gender dysphoria.”
We’re hosting a giveaway for a physical copy of Simple Trinity: The Unmanipulated Father, Son, and Spirit! Special thanks to Baker Publishing Group for providing our giveaway, presented in partnership with my newsletters for @diveindigdeep and FCBC Walnut.
Books, Podcasts, Music, And More
1. Crossway: Songs of Suffering: A Short Film Featuring Joni Eareckson Tada
No one has spoken more personally and insightfully into the intersection of suffering and faith than Joni Eareckson Tada. In this 13-minute documentary, hear more from Joni herself about her story, how she reacted when she learned 55 years ago that she would never walk again, and what she does to find the heartbeat of Christ within her daily struggle with chronic pain and quadriplegia.
2. Asian American Worship Leaders: Rest On Us
Rest On Us (NewStory Church) / Yet Not I (All Nations Community Church) / Do It Again (Citizens Church) / Jireh (Zoe Church OC)
3. Aaron Lee: Related Works
Book Reviews: Simply Trinity by Matthew Barrett, The Unwavering Pastor by Jonathan K. Dodson, The Path to Peace by Ann Swindell, Write It On Their Hearts by Chris and Melissa Swain. Listen to our TGIF playlist on Spotify. Join my Asian American Worship Leaders Facebook group.
Check out our Book Reviews for reading recommendations, with an emphasis on Asian American authors.
Featured This Week On SOLA Network
1. Aaron Lee: Unplug from the Digital Domain: A Book Review of “Analog Christian”
What has the Internet and social media done to our souls? In Analog Christian, Jay Y. Kim helps you cultivate contentment, resilience, and wisdom in the digital age.
2. Tom Sugimura: Helping People Change on Issues of Race and Racism
As Christians talk more openly about race, we find many opportunities to counsel one another from the Scriptures. The four-pronged approach of Love, Know, Speak, and Do provides a framework for helping people change.
3. Kevin Yi: How to Support Creatives and Interact with Culture: An Interview with Jason Min
“Every church is asking, how do we attract more creatives? And yet, they’re always what they mean is, how can we get creatives to execute the things we come up with? To do what they do? But the way we want them to do it and that’s not really valuing their voice. That’s basically exploitation.”
4. Aaron Lee: How the Church can Support Adoptees and Parents of Adoptees: An Interview with Jonathan Holmes
Jonathan’s journey discovering his heritage and biological family, How to care for adoptees and their trauma, How to advise adoptees or parents of adoptees who are struggling to live in the present while wanting to discover their past, Speaking to people considering adoption, and How the church can talk about and support adoptions.
5. TGIF: Roundup for August 12, 2022
Humility-Shame: A Positive Understanding of Shame from the Cross / Coming Out as Christian at Work / Love for the Immigrant Church is Patient
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