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Some thoughts that have been percolating on being Asian…
I’m Chinese. I don’t think I realized it till about grade three.
I have faint memories of myself squeezing my nose in the mirror in hopes that it wasn’t so flat.
Race itself can be a type of poverty
Is the asian model minority myth, a myth?
In Dreams of my Father, Barack Obama talks about not wanting to associate with the one other black classmate because it would only remind them further of their isolation. I feel that way sometimes when I’m surrounded by Asians.
Asians are rarely included in the black-white race discussions
I’ve heard people say where black and white are on the extremes, yellow and brown are ‘just right’.
Along with the color remarks, I’ve heard people use the term ‘banana’ for Asians that act white. I’ve always wondered if there was something similar for Asians acting ‘black’. Beef patty is the closest thing I can think of, yellow pastry on the outside, dark on the inside?
Labels are rarely helpful, but where else would we start?
When Asians are mentioned in conversations on reconciliation it seems to be merely for the sake of inclusion, not that there might be some form of weight behind it.
Being Asian typically carries more stereotypes behind it than an actual narrative
Many of the circles I travel in, from old-school pastoral gatherings to emergent networks, I’m the only Asian dude.
I wonder if I help validate the movement of Christ to all people when I show up.
Truth is, I long for a truly multi-cultural church as well
At my wife’s school, there’s typically only one token white kid in her classroom.
Statistics say that within a decade the majority of Christians in America will be non-white. What does that mean about our future leadership?
With the Chinese ethnic church booming over the past decade, black and white pastors have asked me, when will the Chinese church begin reaching back out to them?
We as a church need to have a better theology of the human person and of diversity.
God’s not colorblind, and when we avoid the discussions as we do in Canada, we’re negating a part of who God created us to be.
Is there affirmative action happening in our churches? Is that a good thing?
John Piper thinks that Asians might be the next great movement of missionaries
I wonder how China being an emerging superpower relates to the church of the future?
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- When I go to starbucks, I’m so cheap, I always order a venti for value, then put it in the fridge and slowly drink it over three days
- I’ve recently began watching old episodes of Party of Five
- I never talk about being in anyway affiliated with the emergent church because I think Mark Driscoll will come and beat me up.
- Our S80 Canon digital camera flew off our car on to the highway this past week, and we saw it as an ‘opportunity’ to replace it with a shiny new Canon Rebel xsi DSLR
- Since my daughter was born, I went from working out five times a week, to zero, and I’ve lost 25 pounds.
- I’m eating expired popcorn as I type this, I generally eat a lot of expired food.
- I’ve never been so convicted of what I’ll be doing with my life, while have no idea about how I’ll be doing it. Somehow this makes it all the more exciting for me, but probably a little confusing to those around me.
- I probably haven’t had a single decent conversation with 80% of my ‘friends’ listed on facebook this year
- I don’t know many people more hopeful than I am. I pretend to be cynical sometimes just so people think I’m thoughtful and not naive.
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What would you be doing, if you could do anything in the world?
Would the choices liberate you, or overwhelm you?
Would it reveal the stuff you’re made of, or all the stuff you’re missing?
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I was at the new suburbia conference this past week. I’m not sure how true the conference was of its title, it was mostly about Christian community development in an urban setting, gentrification of city slums, and indigenous leadership empowerment.
There was some good material in there. However, I felt some of us gathered had been experiencing some type of suburban inferiority complex. I know the urban setting is where the needs are often greatest, not to mention hip, cool, and trendy, but suburbia has it’s place too.
What if we took global urbanization seriously, and those of us in the suburbs saw our communities as future urban centers of the world? What if the church began investing and building infrastructure into the suburbs and were on the leading edge of every urban tipping point?
* Photo by Ann Douglas
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I just finished Anthony Weston’s “How to re-imagine the world”, a wild little book about reawakening radical imagination for social transformation.
Weston’s strengths are definitely in the realm of futuristic/ideation which completely jives with me.
He pitches a few ideas that are aching to be implemented like sports for the homeless, turning military bases into retreat centers, cutting the work week in half, preemptive peace, sun-baked roads that generate electricity, and creating floating cities to name a few.
Some quotes I highlighted from the book
Radical imagination begins with a move beyond complaint and resistance, beyond reactive tinkering or hunkering down or cynical accommodation. The first big move is to an alternative picture of how things could be instead.
Truly generative, inventive, new thinking requires risk-taking and is iteself a discipline. Mental stretching and twisting, conceptual self-provocations, going two steps too far – we need techniques, in short, to shock or seduce our ideas into unexpected and suggestive re-arrangements, freezing up space and generating raw material for the constructive imagination.
How can we make life more ecstatic?
Along with battling poverty we need to ask why we tolerate radical inequality at all. In many African tribal societies, even a single homeless person is felt as a disgrace by all. How did we get where we are?
We know too little of the natural world to come to love it.
Who would Jesus bomb?
A couple sites Weston recommends worldchanging.com and globalideasbank.org
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