Dialogues in Asian American Theology and Ministry Podcast

When Asian-American church leaders discover that a congregant has experienced sexual or emotional betrayal, it’s hard to know how to respond well. It’s common to freeze, or to try to problem-solve. Worse, the mind can quickly go to protecting the church from shame or scandal. Tragically, these common responses do great damage to the victim of infidelity. Even to the point of apostasy. This worksho...

Asian Americans have the lowest rates of mental health service use despite struggling with mental health disorders, trauma, substance use, and suicide. Instead, we often look to the church for support. Pastors and lay leaders often feel unequipped to respond to these overwhelming needs. What is the role of the Asian American church in addressing our national mental health crisis, post-pandemic? Th...

Asian Americans share a collective experience of leaving one country in pursuit (sometimes forced) of a new life in a new land. How has this journey shaped our experience of ourselves, our families, communities, and our faith? This plenary explores the broader canvas of Asian American history, racialization, and identity to allow for a more nuanced understanding of our individual and collective we...

“Can we be Indian and Christian? What are the challenges that Asian American Christians face to become who they are? What do we need to unlearn and learn? Join our conversation with Dr. Ashish Varma and what it means for him to become an Indian American Christian.” This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit caacptsem.su...

Billy Taing and Diane Ujiiye, Co-Directors of API RISE , invite you into conversation about humanizing sisters, brothers, and siblings who have endured war, poverty, refugee camps, and the “crimmigration” system. Join them in learning about counteracting stigma and the shame of being incarcerated and undocumented. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers o...

Join us for a conversation with Prof. Jerry Park (Baylor) for a conversation about demographic trends on Christianity in the US and how this shapes the future of the church and theological education in the US. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit caacptsem.substack.com

Join this conversation with Professor Paul Lim as we discuss baseball, mentoring, Asian American church history, and Young Nak Presbyterian Church in Los Angeles. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit caacptsem.substack.com

We share this presentation by Dr. Carrie Myers for the Asian American Theology and Ministry Colloquium titled “Cultivating Asian American Spiritual Formation.” Come learn about the stages of faith and how to overcome “the wall” that blocks our spiritual growth in Christ. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit caacpt...

Dr. Christina Edmondson characterizes the violent pillars that hold up racial stratification. Against the barriers of fear, exhaustion, and trauma, Dr. Edmondson draws from the narrative of Acts 16:16-24 in order to display the costly but triumphant solidarity blessed by the thrice holy God. The newly expanded Center for Asian American Christianity at Princeton Theological Seminary comes at a crit...

Through grounded analysis and activism, Hyepin Im presents how the dismantling of the model minority myth allows for greater racial solidarity. In this way, the truth sets people free in their mission to come into the fullness of what God intended for them. The newly expanded Center for Asian American Christianity at Princeton Theological Seminary comes at a critical time in the life of Asian Amer...

In thinking through theological questions of solidarity, Dr. Jonathan Tran proposes an analytical lens of political economy in order to diagnose, by way of thick descriptions, relations between African Americans and Asian Americans. This allows for two theologies of anti-racism: attentive waiting and revolution. The newly expanded Center for Asian American Christianity at Princeton Theological Sem...

Dr. David Latimore facilitates a panel discussion with the speakers from the Hope from Ashes conference. The newly expanded Center for Asian American Christianity at Princeton Theological Seminary comes at a critical time in the life of Asian America. Asian Americans are the fastest-growing racial-ethnic demographic in the United States. The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the persistence of anti-A...

Dr. Russell Jeung likens the American educational system to competitions portrayed in the popular Netflix show Squid Game . In this cutthroat and costly environment, disadvantaged communities are pitted against each other for the benefit of the few. Instead, Dr. Jeung proposes a scriptural movement wherein this zero sum competition is replaced by a commitment to equity and common interest. This is...

In this podcast, we have a conversation with Kathryn Gin Lum about her new book, “Heathen: Religion and Race in American History.” The book argues how the religious idea of the heathen undergirds American conceptions of race. While the term “heathen” fell out of common use by the early 1900s, the term’s influence on racial categories persists today. The newly expanded Center for Asian American Chr...

Dr. Jane Hong provides pertinent historical context surrounding the 1992 LA Riots, giving attention to the crucial forces that framed the event. She then offers insights from her own narrative as a child of Korean immigrant shop owners in Brooklyn, and now a U.S. historian investigating race and evangelicalism, in order to display how 1992 paved the way for contemporary Christians conversations ar...

Dr. David Chao, Princeton Seminary President Craig Barnes, and Dr. Matthew Kuan Johnson give their opening remarks for the 2022 Hope From Ashes Conference co-hosted by the Center for Asian American Christianity and the Betsy Stockton Center for Black Church Studies. The newly expanded Center for Asian American Christianity at Princeton Theological Seminary comes at a critical time in the life of A...

January 24, 2022 | Mental Health and Asian Americans: Contexts and Strategies for Faith Leaders   In this workshop, attendees learn how to put in practice active listening skills that will allow them to be empathetic change-makers. These practical listening skills will allow ministry leaders to effect change within their congregations.   Speaker: Dr. Samuel Kim, assistant professor of school psych...

Dr. Jonathan Tran 's public lecture on April 8, 2022 titled "Yellow Christianity" continues themes from his book,  Asian Americans and the Spirit of Racial Capitalism  (Oxford University Press, 2022). Dr. Tran, Associate Professor of Philosophical Theology at Baylor University, develops an account of “yellow” politics and Christianity that begins with particular sites of racial capitalist oppressi...

January 24, 2022 | Mental Health and Asian Americans: Contexts and Strategies for Faith Leaders   Conflict can be a healthy and essential part of community growth, but it takes time, training, and practice to handle conflict in ways that help deepen interpersonal empathy and understanding. Particularly during the pandemic when stress levels are high, divisions are rampant, and emotional coping ski...

On March 28, 2022, Dr. Helen Jin Kim , Associate Professor of American Religious History at Candler School of Theology at Emory University, presented at the fourth Asian American Theology and Ministry Colloquium at Princeton Theological Seminary of this academic year. Dr. Kim discusses first what it means to recast the history of modern evangelical America by turning toward the Pacific and Asian A...

January 24, 2022 | Mental Health and Asian Americans: Contexts and Strategies for Faith Leaders   Asian American Christians can struggle with the experience of not feeling good enough. They perceive a gap between where they ideally ought to be and where they actually are. Across their personal, professional, and even spiritual lives, there is a tendency to expect perfection yet fall short of it. I...

January 24, 2022 | Mental Health and Asian Americans: Contexts and Strategies for Faith Leaders  Rev. Dr. Lee's workshop is designed to help church leaders better discern and process common psychological and relational challenges they may face in the church. We discuss how to distinguish between mental health and spiritually related problems and learn how to increase collaboration with local Chris...

On February 24, 2022, Dr. Janette Ok , Associate Professor of New Testament at Fuller Seminary, presented at the third Asian American Theology and Ministry Colloquium at Princeton Theological Seminary of this year. Dr. Ok asks, What does it mean to preach in a way that reflects being Asian American? Is there such a thing as a distinctly Asian American voice and presence at the pulpit? This convers...

January 24, 2022 | Mental Health and Asian Americans Contexts and Strategies for Faith Leaders   Plenary Lecture: "Stop AAPI Hate and Racial Trauma"  Dr. Jeung’s talk discusses the collective racial trauma that our communities are facing during COVID-19, its historic precedence, and indigenous approaches toward healing.   Speaker: Dr. Russell Jeung, professor of Asian American studies, San Francis...

Dr. Carolyn Chen, Associate Professor of Asian American and Asian Diaspora studies and Comparative Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley, discusses what happens when work becomes religion—the subject of her forthcoming book  Work Pray Code . Learn more at https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691219080/work-pray-code The Center for Asian American Christianity is a thought leader in the areas of...