Past Events
Held on May 29, 2024, at the Democracy Center in the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles, the “Asian Exclusion and the Church: Ripples from the 1924 Immigration Act” was a pivotal This free hybrid event, hosted by the Asian American Christian History Institute, Center for Asian American Christianity, and Epic Movement, will convene a gathering of scholars, pastors, and faith leaders from the Asian American Christian community. Together, we will delve into the profound implications of the Johnson-Reed Act of 1924—a legislation key to understanding the trajectory of Asian American communities and their faith practices in the United States.
While the dominant narratives in many Western seminaries are narratives of decline, Chloe Sun offers a counter-narrative from the Chinese diaspora, with Logos Evangelical Seminary as a case study. She invites a broader vision and conversation in theological education that includes voices from the majority world in diverse contexts.
Christ Among the Classes (Orbis Books) paints a picture of Jesus among the rich and the poor of his day and calls the church to imitate Christ among the rich and the poor of our day by the power of the Spirit. In light of Asian and Asian-American cultures, where success is defined and pursued in particular ways, what might this call look like?
This two-day, hybrid mental health conference, organized by the Center for Asian American Christianity, takes our intergenerational family stories as a point of departure for understanding the pressure points of Asian American life. Asian American church life and Asian American family life often reflect each other: the joys and pains of one are found in the other. Migration helps explain why church life and family life for Asians in the US have much in common.
This conference will examine how migration and loss impact the mental health needs of the Asian American community across different generations. The first day of the conference will host plenary presentations on the joys and pains often associated with migration and how this sets up issues of relational conflict, intergenerational misunderstanding, contested normative values, and different mental health and spiritual needs between generations.
Two authors of the Asian American discipleship book Learning Our Names further develop the themes of their chapters as they’ve engaged with readers and furthered their studies. Being Asian American for most of us means there is no return to our pre-immigration stories, lands, or even pre-colonial identities. Resisting our Racialization and engaging with racial and ethnic justice takes on greater importance as we consider what we want to pass on to future generations. Join us as we bring together our studies, our stories, and our ministry contexts in conversation with each other.
In recent years, there has been an incredible rise in recognition and popularity of Korean cultural contents, ranging from movies to beauty products to TV dramas and music/K-pop. This whole phenomenon, known as Hallyu, has been a fantastic journey for me to enjoy and engage with, especially as a 1.5-generation Korean American immigrant English Ministry pastor who grew up in the states in the 1970’s and 1980’s. But beyond its entertainment value, it has been a fertile source for reflection and exploration on how we, the church, can do better in our ministries with young people and beyond. K-pop matters, let me tell you how.