What Unites Asian American Christians

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🗓️ 24 March 2021

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Transcribed highlights of the show can be found in our episode summaries. Last week, a gunman shot up three spas in Atlanta, taking the lives of eight people, six of them Asian American. Their names were Soon Chung Park, age 74; Hyun Jung Grant, age 51; Suncha Kim, age 69; Yong Yue, age 63; Delaina Ashley Yaun, age 33; Paul Andre Michels, age 54; and Xiaojie Tan, age 49.These attacks, coming just weeks after several reports were released calling attention to racial violence and harassment against Asian Americans. One report from a group called Stop AAPI Hate listed nearly 3,8000 incidents from March 19, 2020 to February 28, 2021 which included verbal harassment, physical assault, shunning, civil rights violations, and online harassment. While the community currently only makes up about six percent of the population, according to Pew Research Center, by 2055, this may be the largest minority group.It’s also a community with enormous amounts of diversity. The largest communities are ethnically Chinese, Indian, Filipino, Vietnamese, Korean and Japanese. This week on Quick to Listen, we wanted to learn more about the influence of Christian faith of Asian American, the US’ fasting growing immigrant group and the obligations of the church at large to welcome and love them. Our guest this week is Jane Hong, associate professor of history at Occidental College and the author of Opening the Gates to Asia: A Transpacific History of How America Repealed Asian Exclusion. Her next book book from Oxford University Press is tentatively titled Model Christians, Model Minorities: Asian Americans, Race, and Politics in the Transformation of U.S. Evangelicalism. She is currently co-hosting Centering: The Asian American Christian Podcast. What is Quick to Listen? Read more Rate Quick to Listen on Apple Podcasts Follow the podcast on Twitter Follow our hosts on Twitter: Morgan Lee and Ted Olsen Follow our guest on Twitter: Jane Hong Visit her faculty page Music by Sweeps Quick to Listen is produced by Morgan Lee and Matt Linder The transcript is edited by Yvonne Su and Bunmi Ishola Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:11.1	Learn to explain your faith with courage and compassion.
0:14.5	Join Moody Bible Institute professor Dr. Mikhail del Rosario at Apologeticsky.com.
0:22.6	Last week, a gunman shot up three spas in Atlanta, taking the lives of eight people, six of them Asian American.
0:30.6	The names of the victims were Su Chung Park, age 74, Yanjun Grant, age 51, Suncha Kim, age 60 night, Yong Yu, H 63, Delana Ashley Yowun,
0:45.3	H 33, Paul Andre Michaels, age 54, and Shiao J. Tahn, age 49.
0:53.3	These attacks came just weeks after several reports were released calling attention to racial
0:58.3	violence and harassment against Asian Americans.
1:02.2	One report from a group called Stop AAPI, or Asian American Pacific Islanders, hate.
1:08.9	One report from a group called Stop AAPI Hate listed nearly 3,800 incidents from March 19,
1:14.6	2020 to February 28, 2021, which included verbal harassment, physical assault, shunning,
1:21.6	civil rights violations, and online harassment.
1:24.6	While the Asian American community currently only makes up 6% of the population,
1:30.1	according to Pew Research Center by 255, this could be America's largest minority group.
1:35.7	It's also a community with enormous amounts of ethnic diversity. Its largest communities
1:39.5	being ethnically Chinese, Indian, Filipino, Vietnamese, Korean, and Japanese.
1:45.6	We wanted to learn about the influence of Christian faith on Asian American communities
1:49.4	and the obligation of the church at large to welcome and love them.
1:53.8	You are listening to Quick to Listen, where we go beyond hashtags and hot takes to discuss a major cultural event. I'm Morgan Lee, Global Media Manager at
2:04.1	Christianity Today. And I'm Ted Olson. I'm editorial director at Christianity today. All right, Ted, it is kind of hard to talk about this mass shooting when we're recording this and there has been another significant mass shooting since then.
2:30.6	But I do want to spend some time talking about this particular massacre in Atlanta
2:36.4	that occurred last week and how you've been processing all of this.
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