Maila shared a special message at the Honor Summit's monthly Chicagoland gathering, and we wanted to share with you all. Follow us on social media to find out about our next gathering!
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What is an Asian American women's ministry and why is it important? How is it different from general ministry? In this episode, my conversation partners--Faith Cho (CEO) and Esther Lee (COO)--share our thoughts and experiences.
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Meet Samantha Laffey and Violet Benjamin, two of my colleagues at the Honor Summit and fellow Asian American women in interracial/interethnic marriages! Because I'm a Korean American married to a non-Korean American, I've found myself 1) noticing intermarried couples and bi/multi-racial people more and 2) wanting to hear their stories. I believe all people have a unique testimony about God and God's love because of the unique composition of our backgrounds, experiences, and personalities. So what story do intermarried and biracial people have to share?
The Honor Summit is a non-profit organization that exists to center the voices of Asian American women and all women in the Church and in the world.
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The statistics that I shared in the episode about Asian Americans and intermarriage can be found here at the Pew Research Center (https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2017/05/18/1-trends-and-patterns-in-intermarriage/)
It's hard to introduce Lily in just a few sentences. She's one of those people who are full of stories and who seem to have lived a lot of lives in just 20 something years. In this episode, Lily and I have a conversation about some of her experiences as an adoptee and the on-going subject of healing and redemption.
Connect with Lily on Instagram @lily.p.mclaughlin @lilypearlmclaughlin
The Honor Summit is a non-profit organization that exists to center the voices of Asian American women and all women in the Church and in the world.
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The Honor Summit is launching our first ever cohorts called "A Spirit-Filled Identity" designed and taught by our team's very own Ruth Pham Jae. Hurray!
In this episode, I sat down with Ruth to talk about her personal journey and how her family, faith, and life experiences became fodder for the cohorts curriculum she designed.
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The Honor Summit is a non-profit organization that exists to center the voices of Asian American women and all women in the Church and in the world.
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The Honor Summit is launching our first ever cohorts called "A Spirit-Filled Identity" designed and taught by our team's very own Ruth Pham Jae. Hurray!
In this episode, I got together with Ruth to talk about this cohort--what it will cover, how it was birthed, and what it aims to do. What I got out of this conversation is that there is world of freedom, healing, and understanding that's available to us, but sometimes we need a little help getting there. This conversation with Ruth is a little glimpse of the support that the cohorts will offer.
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The Honor Summit is a non-profit organization that exists to center the voices of Asian American women and all women in the Church and in the world.
Follow us on Instagram @thehonorsummit and @julieyeeun. Visit our website: www.thehonorsummit.com
I’m convinced that building a language for Asian American experiences is one of the most important tasks for us today.
What do I mean by language? I mean the words and concepts used by a community to express, reflect on, and engage our experiences. Without a language, Asian Americans tacitly accept norms that are assigned to us, even if they don't work for us. Without a language, we let others define our own reality. Asian Americans as the "perpetual foreigner" was a concept that helped me make sense of my experiences living in the US. That's one of piece of the growing vocabulary for the Asian American community.
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In this episode, I continue talking about misconceptions that I've come across regarding race, ethnicity, and gender: that talking about Asian American women's issues is a form self-victimization. Along the way, I introduce two basic orientations in the work of identity politics, orientations to victory and victimhood, and make room for tension and complexity. The truth is that probably everyone who is victorious has been a victim and everyone experiencing on-going victimization can simultaneously be en route to victory.
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"Are Asian American organizations racist?"
"What is and isn’t racist?"
"Are there double standards set up against white people when we talk about race and ethnicity?"
These are some of the questions I’ve been asked over the years (by a lot of people, btw).
In this episode, I talk about one of two common misconceptions that I across often in the discussion of race, ethnicity, gender, and identity: that taking about race is bad and having racial-ethnic specific groups or events is racist. Along the way, we define what racism actually is and how privilege works as a default settings and neutrality, the unstated or assumed norm.
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I grew up surrounded by Korean and Asian American Christians--so why were our role models and the "heroes" of our faith anything but Asian American? And why didn't more of us question this and find it problematic?
After teaching Asian American Studies for a few years and being involved in several predominantly Asian American organizations, communities, circles, etc. basically all my life, I've developed a list of observations about us. In this episode, I share just a couple of things I've learned about Asian Americans, including why Asian Americans might accept our absence and erasure in the story of the Church.
Correction: The Filipino fishing settlement was created during the 18th century (mid 1700s) not the 1500s as I said in the episode. (That's what happens when I go off-script.)
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"Jesus said, 'This is better. Come sit with me.' Jesus was giving Martha a place of honor, to be his apprentice--a place culture had reserved for men." Simi's retelling of the story of Mary and Martha from Luke 19:38-42 is unlike what we're used to hearing with its tenderness and intimate tone.
In this episode, I sat down with Simi John, an Indian American women, mom, wife, pastor's wife, doctor, preacher, and teacher to talk about how she does it all and for what purpose. She walks us through her experiences and thoughts on the external pressures that seek to erase racial and ethnic cultures and exclude women from ministry.
Simi was born in India and moved to Dallas, TX at the age of 7. She graduated with her doctorate in physical therapy and married her best friend Jayson in 2010. Together, they pastor at New Life Bible Church in Norman, Oklahoma and they have 2 kids. Simi is a speaker and author of “I Am Not: Break Free From Stereotypes & Become The Woman God Made You To Be” (find it on Amazon!) and a contributing writer for (in)Courage.
Connect with Simi!
Instagram: @simijohn
Facebook: Simi John Speaks
Youtube: Simi John TV
Website: simijohn.tv
The Honor Summit is a non-profit organization that exists to center the voices of Asian American women and all women in the Church and in the world.
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This week, I got together with our guest Faith Eury Cho, the founder of the Honor Summit, to talk about silly things (like the enneagram and marrying college sweethearts) and serious things like the way women in the Church are systematically overlooked and excluded from discipleship on their way to pastoral and other ministries. In fact, The Honor Summit was created to bridge the gap that women in the Church regularly fall into and support them in their faith journey.
The Honor Summit is a non-profit organization that exists to center the voices of Asian American women and all women in the Church and in the world.
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Faith Cho: www.instagram.com/faitheurycho
Julie Yeeun Kim: www.instagram.com/julieyeeun