By Dr. David Chao • Issue #9 • View online

I hope you had a blessed Easter weekend. I want to share some exciting events coming up as well as new content that may be of interest.

Register now for the May 13-14, hybrid LA Riots conference titled "Hope from Ashes"

2022 is the thirty year anniversary of the 1992 LA Riots. Rev. Dr. David Latimore (Director, Betsey Stockton Center for Black Church Studies) and I are organizing a hybrid conference on May 13-14, 2022. This conference examines the intersection of race, class, and protest for African American and Asian American communities. Please register for the conference here. The registration is free for virtual attendees and costs $40 for in-person attendees. We are encouraging watch parties in local neighborhoods to facilitate cross-racial conversations and relationships; please email me (david.chao@ptsem.edu) to learn more about hosting a watch party through your church or organization.

Register for the April 22-23, "Prayer as Resistance" Conference

On April 22-23, 2022, my Princeton Seminary colleague, Dr. Bo Karen Lee (Associate Professor of Spiritual Theology and Christian Formation), is hosting a hybrid conference titled “Prayer as Resistance: Contemplative Practices for Liberative Justice.” Here is the conference announcement: “Racialized violence in our nation has wearied souls, and those who care about social justice in our world need encouragement and spiritual practices to sustain our souls. Come and be empowered to consider a variety of ways in which our justice work might be anchored in the depths of God’s love for us and for our world. Register now here. Use this code to receive 30% off (FRIENDDISC).” Please check it out. Registration closes April 21.

New content for you!

Jonathan Tran podcast, "Yellow Christianity"

Dr. Jonathan Tran’s public lecture on April 8, 2022 titled “Yellow Christianity” continues themes from his book, Asian Americans and the Spirit of Racial Capitalism (Oxford University Press, 2022). Dr. Tran, Associate Professor of Philosophical Theology at Baylor University, develops an account of “yellow” politics and Christianity that begins with particular sites of racial capitalist oppression and domination and pushes toward liberative coalitional politics. He also discusses recent cases of anti-AAPI violence and their historical antecedents, liberation theology’s attention to local and transnational sources of oppressive domination, and how “yellow Christianity” offers a way forward.

Jane Hong article, "The Asian American Movement and the Church"

This article considers the social and political activism of Protestant Christians in and adjacent to the Asian American Movement (AAM) of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Drawing on oral history interviews and archives, it uses Asian American Christian Theologies and Strategies (ACTS) based in Berkeley, California, and Agape Fellowship, a Christian commune in Los Angeles, to consider how Asian American Christians integrated their religious and racial identities and fused their faith with their social activism. Many saw ameliorating societal injustice as a duty of their Christian faith. Applying a religious lens to what is often seen as a strictly secular movement, this piece illuminates how Christians contributed to Asian American radical activism, community service and development, and the early formation of Asian American Studies as a field. Neither ACTS nor Agape escaped the patriarchy and sexism that plagued the larger AAM and other movements of the time, reaffirming the importance of gender analysis in these histories.

Original posting: https://www.getrevue.co/profile/caac/issues/latest-from-the-center-for-asian-american-christianity-1119561?utm_campaign=Issue&utm_content=view_in_browser&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Latest+from+the+Center+for+Asian+American+Christianity