Learning Our Names: Asian American Christians on Identity, Relationships, and Vocation Chan Sabrina S.
Learning Our Names: Asian American Christians on Identity, Relationships, and Vocation Chan Sabrina S. What's your name?Asian Americans know the pain of being called names that deny our humanity. But…
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Learning Our Names: Asian American Christians on Identity, Relationships, and Vocation Chan Sabrina S.
What's your name?Asian Americans know the pain of being called names that deny our humanity. But it's a challenge to discern what names reflect our true identities as Asian Americans and as Christians. We may toggle back and forth between different names as a survival strategy.
A team from East Asian, Southeast Asian, and South Asian backgrounds explores what it means to learn our names and be seen by God. In an era when Asians face ongoing discrimination and marginalization, it can be hard to live into God's calling for our lives.Asian American Christians need to hear and own our diverse stories beyond the cultural expectations of the model minority or perpetual foreigner. They encourage us to know our history, telling diverse stories of the Asian diaspora in America who have been shaped and misshaped by migration, culture, and faith.
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