In this episode, I have invited my friend Sharon Richards to cohost this podcast. Sharon will first speak of her experience as an African-American, then she will interview me and ask me questions on my Asian-American experience in America. We will be talking about the Perpetual Foreigner Syndrome that is often common to many Asians in this country.

In Part 2, another former participant of Cultural Learning Group came on to reflect his experience with this ministry and its impact on his spiritual formation. In 2016, Chris Bertelli openly identified himself as a white male Republican, and the reaction was…the reason for having this podcast.

This is the first of a two-part episodes of some of the personal stories shared in a church ministry called Cultural Learning Group. The idea of CLG was imagined by Allison Carlos who witnessed how the political culture in 2016 permeated even the church, and fractured the Christian fabric that mandates “love one another.” The original purpose of this ministry is for the participants to learn to intentionally listen to the personal stories of others without judgment. While each stories told in this group is precious because of the transparency and vulnerability, some stand out among others for their unique nature. I would like to thank the owners of these stories who came on the podcast to be interviewed or to re-tell their stories. Their courage and sincerity are much appreciated. This episode is produced by Allison Carlos, Dick Laine, Michael Zacharia, and Paul Yin.

In this episode, we explore how narratives can result in mass manipulation. The solution may not be distinguishing truth from untruth then canceling the untruth but to model after a biblical methodology of bringing in a third narrative.

Noreen Malone wrote an article titled “The Age of Anti-Ambition” and was published in The New York Times Magazine in February 2022. This episode is a discussion on how this article succinctly describes the larger cultural mood of the Great Resignation in urban America.

This is an adaptation of one of the chapters of Lacking A Christian Voice In The Mainstream Culture. This episode explores how various art forms from the medieval to the present have shaped western and American culture in how we think and behave. In this process, Christian influence has moved from taking the lead to being left behind. What happened?

Our living cycle has been changing drastically in the past 50 years. Yet, how we understand spirituality hasn’t changed much. As a result, we have created much anxieties in trying to live between the two conflicting worlds.

[Spoilers Alert!] The Matrix trilogy is filled with religious overtones. What about the fourth one? Why do they want to make a fourth one? What does it want to say? Whose story are they telling?

This sermon was preached over the summer of 2021 at Oak Hills Church in Folsom, California. The preacher brings the audience from the present to the past and back to the present again to explain God plans to use redemptive suffering’s instead of power and violence to bring forth the kingdom of God, and how that may form our assessment to the assault on the capital on January 6, 2021.