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When We Stay But Disappear: Hidden Ruptures & the Hope of Church as a Healing Community | Christina Lee Kim | Our Flourishing, Our Faith…
This plenary examines subtle and often unseen relational ruptures within church communities - - those marked not by open conflict, but by emotional…
Gathering the Scattered, Part I
Faith, Church, and the Institutions of Diaspora Life. The Burma Christian diaspora in Indianapolis comes into view as a transnational Christian social…
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Navigating Racial Trauma in Christian Spaces (Pt. 3)
Journeying from Erasure towards Compassion, by Esther Kim. As I think of these alumni who serve and love their communities, I imagine how Christ’s love…
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The Spacious Spirituality of Kapwa
By Jenai Auman, a Filipina American writer, contemplative, and author. Kapwa is a collective us-ness—a shared identity that communicates that our…
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Faith in Flight: The Resilience of the Burma Diaspora
From the Frontlines of the Longest Civil War to New Roots in America. Rev. Florence Li traces the history of the Burma diaspora from the 19th-century…
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Whose Image do I Bear?
By Joel Thomas, a Data Science and Finance Senior. I went into the finance industry chasing something I couldn’t fully name— the confidence, the…
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Remembering, Resisting, and Belonging
In February 2026, Dr. David Chao attended the 78th Chin National Day celebration in Indianapolis. The gathering was a layered enactment of memory…
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Through the Mighty Waters
Grieving and Healing in Asian American Theological Formation, by Joshua E. Livingston. The healing of all creation comes in the same manner as yours and…
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Sit with Us for a Moment
An Invitation for Cross-Cultural Learning About Rupture and Repair by Stephanie Carter. The specific historical experiences and cultural distinctions…
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Night Market Encounters with Shame and Grace
A reflection on Tsou Shih-Ching’s Left-Handed Girl by Stephen Chen. The question of parental shame may hinge on whether it's offered alone or…
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Living with What Haunts Us
Empathy and Intergenerational Healing in Indian American Ministry, by Caroline S. Lancaster. In intergenerational Indian American Christian contexts, it…
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Asian American Gifts to the Church series

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The Gift of Sacrifice
Yet even as these parents are away from their children, I’ve learned from my own father’s and mother’s examples that their children are always with…
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The Gift of Presence
From this model of family togetherness, I’ve come to know how showing up for church family is one of the ultimate reasons of God’s will and for my own…
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The Gift of Dim Sum
My family took Saturday excursions to Chinatown to shop, to join youth groups, to work at my father’s office, and mostly, to eat. Although I would…
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The Gifts of Blessing
When the prodigal son returns, the father erases the shame by restoring the blessing that their relationship confers. He authorizes his servants to…
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The Gift of Hesed
This love was unconditional. She cared for him devotedly even when he couldn’t respond with affirmation because he couldn’t speak. He couldn’t offer…
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Introduction to Asian American Gifts to the Church
This series explores the God-given splendor of the Asian American church that we can offer to the rest of the body. My hope for these posts is that not…
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