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.

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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 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.

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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?"

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.)

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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