Center for Asian American Christianity The Center for Asian American Christianity at PTS

This is a session in the series Dialogues in Asian American Theology and Ministry, recorded on March 27, 2024.

Description: While the dominant narratives in many Western seminaries are narratives of decline, Chloe Sun offers a counter-narrative from the Chinese diaspora, with Logos Evangelical Seminary as a case study. She invites a broader vision and conversation in theological education that includes voices from the majority world in diverse contexts.


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This is a session in the series Dialogues in Asian American Theology and Ministry, recorded on November 7, 2023.

Description: Two authors of the Asian American discipleship book Learning Our Names further develop the themes of their chapters as they’ve engaged with readers and furthered their studies. Being Asian American for most of us means there is no return to our pre-immigration stories, lands, or even pre-colonial identities. Resisting our Racialization and engaging with racial and ethnic justice takes on greater importance as we consider what we want to pass on to future generations. Join us as we bring together our studies, our stories, and our ministry contexts in conversation with each other.


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This is a session in the series Dialogues in Asian American Theology and Ministry.

Description: Christ Among the Classes (Orbis Books) paints a picture of Jesus among the rich and the poor of his day and calls the church to imitate Christ among the rich and the poor of our day by the power of the Spirit. In light of Asian and Asian-American cultures, where success is defined and pursued in particular ways, what might this call look like?


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This lecture was part of the 2024 Asian American Mental Health Conference “Intergenerational Wholeness for Asian Americans.” Find out more about the conference here: https://caac.ptsem.edu/events/2024-mental-health-conference/.

Abstract: After the new-found excitement of coming to faith, we eventually encounter the limits of what we can achieve on our own in our spiritual journeys. We encounter a spiritual wall. This spiritual wall is a sign for a renewed encounter with God’s grace in forms that perhaps we have not yet received. As Asian American Christians, our intergenerational family history along with our social history as Asians in the US and in God’s divine economy factor into our experience of both spiritual walls and God’s grace. Come to this plenary talk that introduces a framework for Asian American spiritual formation that emphasizes how God longs to meet us in all our spheres of life.


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From the 2024 Asian American Mental Health Conference "Intergenerational Wholeness for Asian Americans: Integrative Approaches to Christian Spiritual and Mental Health Formation." This lecture is by Jeney Park-Hearn, titled "From Crucible to Chalice: Reimagining Loss on the Pathway to Wholeness," recorded January 12, 2024. Find out more about the conference here: https://caac.ptsem.edu/events/2024-mental-health-conference/

Abstract: To tell the story of being Asian in America is difficult to imagine without mentioning loss. From the all-too-familiar accounts of immigration to our spirit’s yearning for belonging amidst alienation, our stories are laced with loss and manifold attempts to flee from the pain of grief. The good news of our living faith, however, comes with an invitation to lean into the strain of loss and to reimagine it as a beckoning towards a lifelong, communal, and redemptive process that attunes and pivots our whole being towards an experiential and more holistic “knowledge” of God.


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From the 2024 Asian American Mental Health Conference "Intergenerational Wholeness for Asian Americans: Integrative Approaches to Christian Spiritual and Mental Health Formation." This lecture is by Dr. Jessica ChenFeng, titled "Honoring, Owning, and Integrating our Asian American Identities," recorded January 12, 2024. Find out more about the conference here: https://caac.ptsem.edu/events/2024-mental-health-conference/.

Abstract: When we are part of families with a recent legacy of migration, we understand the desire to “forget what is behind” and “press toward the future.” In our desire to focus on the hopeful things ahead, we can often reject anything bad (past trauma, pain, grief, loss, shame, etc). In this plenary talk, we open-heartedly explore what it might look like to take an honest look at the “both-and”: the narratives of resilience, strength, and success alongside our family narratives of trauma, grief, and loss. How can we, in community, honor and own the fullness of our Asian American identities and legacies? Is it possible that in moving in the direction of courageously sitting with uncomfortable and dishonored histories that we can find freedom together to live life to the full?


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