Better Than Seven Sons

Hoping is messy. Kathy and La process the election results and honestly share their disappointments and hopes for the future.

We're back to chat about politics. We're just everyday people trying to learn and be better neighbors. We share our journey of civic engagement and how we persist with our conflicted feelings as Hmong Christian women around tough subjects like abortion.

La wrote a book! In this episode, Kathy and Ashley speak with La about co-authoring the book Learning Our Names: Asian Americans on Identity, Relationships, and Vocation. La shares her writing journey as a Hmong American woman and discusses what she hopes the Hmong community might gain from the book.

Learning Our Names: Asian Americans on Identity, Relationships, and Vocation is written by Sabrina Chan, Linson Daniel, E. David De Leon, and La Thao. It is available wherever books are sold. 

In the last episode of season three, we face the tension we experience with 1 Peter 3:1-6 about the submission of women to their husbands. We express concerns about how misinterpretation of this passage can cause harm to Hmong American women while we remain open to what God has for us from this passage. Join our conversation and let us know what you think on our Instagram @btsspodcast.

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Something we've been doing on this podcast is connecting our story and experiences with our faith. For season three, we are going deeper and we invite Hmong American Christians to come along this journey with us.

As Hmong daughters, we were formed to become caretakers. But as caretakers, how do we choose to care for ourselves? In this episode, Kathy, Ashley, and La look to the story of the bleeding woman (Matt 9:18-26; Mark 5:21-43; Luke 8:40-56) as a model of someone choosing herself.

Something we've been doing on this podcast is connecting our story and experiences with our faith. For season three, we are going deeper and we invite Hmong American Christians to come along this journey with us.

We recently discovered the book of Ecclesiastes can be a catharsis of sorts for releasing some of our inner thoughts and emotions about life right now. In this episode, we discuss our readings and reflect on the teacher's advice on enjoyment in the midst of survival and uncertainty.

Something we've been doing on this podcast is connecting our story and experiences with our faith. For season three, we are going deeper and we invite Hmong American Christians to come along this journey with us.

Ashley, Kathy, and La attempt to make sense of survival in their lives during a season of uncertainty and how it fits into the Hmong American narrative.

Something we've been doing on this podcast is connecting our story and experiences with our faith. For season three, we are going deeper and we invite Hmong American Christians to come along this journey with us.

For us, home is hospitality and we cannot talk about one without the other. As we define what home means for us, we discuss hospitality in the Hmong context and how it creates relationships through a process that transforms us from host to guest and guest to host. 

Something we've been doing on this podcast is connecting our story and experiences with our faith. For season three, we are going deeper and we invite Hmong American Christians to come along this journey with us.

Season 3 is here! Something we've been doing on this podcast is connecting our story and experiences with our faith. This season we want to go deeper and invite Hmong American Christians to come along this journey with us. In our first episode, La, Kathy, and Ashley discuss migration and displacement in Acts 7 and share what it means to them as Hmong Americans.

In this Q&A episode, we answer questions from our listeners. We answer some personal questions, share our honest thoughts about Raya, talk about healing, the Hmong church, and more.