Dorcas Cheng-Tozun on Mental Health, Migration, and Making an Impact for Justice as a Sensitive Soul
Be the Bridge Podcast
Be the Bridge
4.8 • 779 Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the Be the Bridge podcast, Sarah Connatser speaks with Dorcas Cheng-Tozun about her writing, her faith, and her justice work. They discuss the importance of understanding migration and mental health theologically, the role of Made for Pax in addressing these topics, and the significance of creating welcoming spaces for all. Dorcas also shares insights from her book, Social Justice for the Sensitive Soul. The conversation highlights the need for kindness, understanding, and joy in today's world.
Executive Producer - Latasha Morrison
Producer & Editor - Sarah Connatser
Music from "Bridge" by Ellie Holcomb and used by permission
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- Mental Health: Experiencing God's Care for Our Mind, Body, and Spirit
- Migration: Experiencing God's Care for Immigrants
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Not all views expressed in this interview reflect the values and beliefs of Latasha Morrison or the Be the Bridge organization.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, Be the Bridge, Be the Bridge to the other side. |
| 0:05.9 | Hello, Be the Bridge community. |
| 0:08.0 | Thank you so much for joining us on the Be The Bridge podcast. |
| 0:11.8 | I am delighted to have a new friend with us here today. |
| 0:16.1 | I have Dorcas Ching Tozen with us. |
| 0:19.5 | She has written some books that I know you are going to benefit |
| 0:24.1 | greatly from. So let's welcome Dorkas to the podcast and to our community. And let's get into |
| 0:31.7 | some of these topics that are so needed right now. |
| 0:39.2 | Dorcas, welcome to the podcast. |
| 0:43.8 | I would love for you to share a little bit about yourself with our community. |
| 0:45.1 | Sure. |
| 0:58.2 | Yeah, I am a San Francisco Bay Area native and have spent most of my career in the nonprofit sector, have also lived overseas for a number of years. |
| 1:03.5 | My husband runs a social enterprise that makes solar-powered products for families without access to electricity. So because of that, we have lived in China. We've lived in Kenya. We've lived in |
| 1:09.6 | Hong Kong. And I have two kiddos at home |
| 1:14.7 | and have been married for 20 years and have the privilege of writing some books that |
| 1:21.5 | personally mean a lot to me and I hopefully speak to others as well. |
| 1:26.5 | For sure. I love that you brought up your husband's work. |
| 1:30.5 | How has living in the different parts of the world impacted your own work and your writing? |
| 1:39.9 | You know, it is actually from my experience living overseas that I started writing. |
| 1:45.0 | Our first time living overseas was in mainland China, and I'm ethnically Chinese, and that actually made it much harder for me because the locals there had expectations just by looking at me, right, that I wouldn't be fluent in the language, that I would understand the culture |
| 2:01.3 | and all the customs. And I didn't. Also, my family's from Hong Kong, which is culturally very |
| 2:07.7 | different from mainland China. And so I really, really struggled. I did not grow up speaking |
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