"Wait a minute, Jesus wasn't White!?"
Justin Lau joins Jessie on this episode of ACross Culture, discussing identity, East Asian theology, images of God, decolonising faith & worship and reconciling his Christian faith with his East Asian identity.
Justin is a Third Culture Kid who grew up in Japan to Singaporean parents. He is a worship & discipleship pastor at a church in East London.
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Justin's newsletter: https://decolonisingmyfaith.substack.com/
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"3 out of 4 non-Christian students would go to church if a friend invited them." - [research from 2023]
Aaron Nayagam joins Jessie on ACross Culture in a episode all about students! Aaron is the Head of Mission of Fusion with a huge passion for students and catalysing the local church to reach out to students in their areas.
Aaron is Indian Tamil living and working in the midlands. They also talk about diaspora churches, culture and diverse perspectives of God.
Listen to this episode to get fired up about mission.
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Fusion website http://fusionmovement.org/
Fusion IG: @hellofusionmovement
Follow Aaron on IG: @anayagam26
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Joining Jessie on ACross Culture this time is Wonu Adefala, a Nigerian living in the UK, pastor of Salem South London, involved in Eleuthera and is the Intercultural Engagement Coordinator for Global Connections. She describes herself as a wonderful hybrid, and in this episode they discuss 1.5-2nd/3rd generation immigrants, culture, diaspora churches and intercultural ministry. Listen to this and you'll definitely be encouraged to keep going in your ministry.
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Wonu's website https://www.wonuadefala.com/
Global Connections https://globalconnections.org.uk/
Follow Wonu @WonuAdefala on social media
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Rani Joshi grew up in a Hindu Gujarati family and became a Christian as an adult. She joins Jessie on the podcast to talk about identity crisis, her work with the South Asian Forum, experiences in intercultural worship and gives insights into following Jesus when coming from another faith.
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South Asian Forum https://www.eauk.org/what-we-do/networks/south-asian-forum
Couch Conversations podcast https://anchor.fm/conversationswithrani
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/raniraine/
More links https://linktr.ee/Raniraine
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Jaewoo Kim, Ministry Development + Director of Networking at Proskuneo, loves connecting people and worshipping communities locally and globally to spark friendship and partnership. He joins Jessie on the podcast to discuss culture and identity, taking up space, Proskuneo Ministries and doing multicultural ministry as a Korean-American introvert.
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Proskuneo Ministries website https://proskuneo.org/
YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@ProskuneoMinistries
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/proskuneoministries/
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/proskuneoministries/
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Dr Daniel D. Lee, professor at Fuller Seminary joins Jessie for this episode of ACross Culture, where they talk about identity, being Asian American/British Chinese and doing theology as embodied beings.
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Daniel's book - Doing Asian American Theology
Book edited by Daniel - The Theologies of Asian Americans and Pacific Peoples
https://www.fuller.edu/asian-american-center/
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Cultural identity or Christian identity? Can you have both? Which comes first?
Explore some of these questions with Jessie and Yinxuan in this episode of ACross Culture. Yinxuan calls himself a Christian, Chinese and a scholar. He shares his testimony of coming to faith from an atheist family with one parent in the Communist Party, and talks about his research - giving us insight into the effects of recent Hong Kong migration to the UK on Chinese churches.
Yinxuan reads from 2 Corinthians 4:7-9 at the end of the ep.
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https://lst.ac.uk/the-bible-and-the-chinese-community-in-britain/
https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2022/october/british-chinese-survey-hong-kong-churches.html
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ACross Culture is back!
Social media content creator, speaker & host Paula Melissa is Jessie's guest for this episode of ACross Culture. They talk about learning languages, podcasts, Christian music and passions.
Paula hosts two podcasts - SheHH and Hermosas Chicas Negras.
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https://www.instagram.com/paulamelissaxx/
https://www.instagram.com/shehhpodcast/
https://www.instagram.com/hermosaschicasnegras/
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Christopher Mazen is Jessie's guest for this episode of ACross Culture. Mazen shares about his journey and practice in worship music across three continents. This episode ends with a clip of Anta Atheemun, an Arabic song which translates as 'You are so awesome'. Lyrics and chords can be found here.
He also has a podcast called Divine Immigrant The Podcast.
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Mazen's Instagram: @divineimmigrant
Mazen's Facebook: christopher.mazen
You can also support Mazen's album on bandcamp.
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Dayalan Mahesan joins Jessie as her guest for the final episode of the series. Dayalan is an entrepreneur who mainly works in property and is also working with Evangelical Alliance's South Asian Forum.
Listen to this episode where they talk about setting up businesses, ministry, monoethnic diaspora churches, multiethnic communities, identity and more.
Dayalan also shares a word of encouragement based on Psalm 103:15-16 and recommends the book 'Redeeming Your Time' by Jordan Raynor.
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Click to read an article written by Dayalan for Tamil Heritage Month.
Dayalan's Instagram: @dayalanmahesan_kw
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Stephanie Biggs is an Ethnomusicologist who calls herself a world traveller! Listen to this episode of ACross Culture where Stephanie and Jessie talk about travelling, experiences in Tanzania and the construction of whiteness there, Stephanie's work & ministry, perceptions of worship norms and more (including song contests!).
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Support Stephanie here >>> Kujenga Upya (ACTI ministry/giving page)
Artists in Christian Testimony International (ACTI) home page:
Inspiro Arts Alliance (a ministry of Operation Mobilization)
TED TALK - the danger of single story
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davecreates is Jessie's guest for this episode of ACross Culture. Hear more about him and his music, faith, identity and more.
His latest release was on December 31st with a new collective he formed with some friends called "Reflective". Check out the EP here: https://album.link/i/1601887414
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davecreates' music - https://linktr.ee/davecreates
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/iamdavecreates/
Twitter - https://twitter.com/iamdavecreates
@iamdavecreates
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Revd. Mark Nam joins Jessie as the guest for this episode of ACross Culture. Listen to this as they discuss identity, church, the Teahouse, forms of resistance, racial injustice and more.
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Follow Mark:
Twitter - @marknam
Facebook - @marknam
Instagram - @marknam
Visit the website of The Tea House
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Ruwani Gunawardene is Jessie's guest for this episode, where they explore intercultural reconciliation. Listen to this to hear a little bit about Ruwani's background, interests, and what it might look like to combine culture and faith in her contexts.
Apologies for the sound quality in this episode.
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Ruwani's blog: http://www.interculturalru.com/
Listen to Tell Me the Old, Old Story here
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Rachael Newham, author of 'Learning to Breathe' and 'And Yet' joins Jessie on this week's episode podcast, where they talk about mental health, the charity she founded, lament, and grief.
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Rachael's instagram, Facebook, Twitter: @RachaelNewham90
Books can be bought here:
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Gloria Fanchiang is a second-generation Taiwanese American songwriter, independent recording artist and worship leader, passionate about decolonising worship and helping Asian American communities develop contextualised worship music and liturgy.
She joins Jessie in this first episode of Series 5, where they talk about identity, worship, multi-ethnic worship, songwriting, decolonisation and more.
A clip of Gloria's latest release, the acoustic version of 'God Who Sees Us', is played at the end of this episode.
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Gloria's instagram: @glofanmusic
Gloria's Facebook: @glofanmusic
Website: www.gloriafanchiang.com
Listen to Gloria's song 'God Who Sees Us' on YouTube (original version)
Stream/download her song on different platforms
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Ellen joins Jessie in this week's episode where they talk about the stigma of mental health, therapy, mental health in the church, Chinese and East Asian communities, codeswitching, bicultural identity and more.
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Ellen's instagram: @ellenyun_counselling
Website: www.ellenyuncounselling.com
Dobu or not tofu's IG: @dobu_ornot_tofu
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Cleo and Jessie talk about identity, missions, OM Logos Hope and reentry from the mission field.
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Cleo's art
Facebook: @projekt.kepompong
Instagram: @projekt.kepompong
OM ships
Facebook: @logoshope
Website: omships.org
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Philippa joins Jessie on this week's podcast episode. We talk about her music, our experience at Christian Union, identity, intercultural worship, diversity and more.
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Follow Philippa:
Facebook: @PhilippaZawe
Instagram: @philippazawe
Twitter: @philippazawe
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/philippazawe
Bandcamp: https://philippazawe.bandcamp.com/
Youtube: Lay It All Down
Podcast: https://anchor.fm/greaterstrongerwiser
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Learn more about Songs2Serve and ICP here:
ICP - Intercultural Church Plants
ICUK - Intercultural Churches UK
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Multicultural Kingdom book by Dr Harvey Kwiyani gets a mention
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Father Simon Cuff joins Jessie as her guest for this episode - he shares about community organising, racial consciousness, Critical Theory and Critical Race Theory.
Fr Simon recommends the following books by Terry Eagleton - Reason, Faith, Revolution and Tragedy.
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Follow Fr Simon on Twitter: @frsimoncuff
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