ACross Culture: Ep 45 - with Justin Lau

"Wait a minute, Jesus wasn't White!?"Justin Lau joins Jessie on this episode of ACross Culture, discussing identity, East Asian theology, images of God, decolonising faith & worship and reconciling his Christian faith with his East Asian identity.Justin is a Third Culture Kid who grew up in Japan to Singaporean parents. He is a worship & discipleship pastor at a church in East London. ---🔗 LINKS 🔗Justin's newsletter: ⁠https://decolonisingmyfaith.substack.com/ ---🎙 Please subscribe and review this podcast 🎙----📱 CONNECT with ACross Culture 📱:FB: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@acrossculturepod⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠IG: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@acrossculturepod⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠More links: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠linktr.ee/acrossculturepod⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠-----🎙️ Support this podcast: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ko-fi.com/acrossculturepod⁠

Jaewoo Kim, Ministry Development + Director of Networking at Proskuneo, loves connecting people and worshipping communities locally and globally to spark friendship and partnership. He joins Jessie on the podcast to discuss culture and identity, taking up space, Proskuneo Ministries and doing multicultural ministry as a Korean-American introvert. --- 🔗 LINKS 🔗 Proskuneo Ministries website ⁠https://proskuneo.org/⁠ YouTube ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@ProskuneoMinistries⁠ Instagram ⁠https://www.instagram.com/proskuneoministries/⁠ Facebook ⁠https://www.facebook.com/proskuneoministries/⁠ --- 🎙 Please subscribe and review this podcast 🎙 ---- 📱 CONNECT with ACross Culture 📱: FB: ⁠⁠@acrossculturepod⁠⁠ IG: ⁠⁠@acrossculturepod⁠⁠ More links: ⁠⁠linktr.ee/acrossculturepod⁠⁠ ----- 🎙️ Support this podcast: ⁠⁠ko-fi.com/acrossculturepod⁠

Dr Daniel D. Lee, professor at Fuller Seminary joins Jessie for this episode of ACross Culture, where they talk about identity, being Asian American/British Chinese and doing theology as embodied beings. --- 🔗 LINKS 🔗 Daniel's book - Doing Asian American Theology Book edited by Daniel - The Theologies of Asian Americans and Pacific Peoples https://www.fuller.edu/asian-american-center/ --- 🎙 Please subscribe and review this podcast 🎙 ---- 📱 CONNECT with ACross Culture 📱: FB: ⁠@acrossculturepod⁠ IG: ⁠@acrossculturepod⁠ More links: ⁠linktr.ee/acrossculturepod⁠ ----- 🎙️ Support this podcast: ⁠ko-fi.com/acrossculturepod⁠

Christopher Mazen is Jessie's guest for this episode of ACross Culture. Mazen shares about his journey and practice in worship music across three continents. This episode ends with a clip of Anta Atheemun, an Arabic song which translates as 'You are so awesome'. Lyrics and chords can be found here. He also has a podcast called Divine Immigrant The Podcast. --- 🔗 LINKS 🔗 Mazen's Instagram: @divineimmigrant Mazen's Facebook: christopher.mazen You can also support Mazen's album on bandcamp.  --- 🎙 Please subscribe and review this podcast 🎙 ---- 📱 CONNECT with ACross Culture 📱: FB: @acrossculturepod IG: @acrossculturepod More links: linktr.ee/acrossculturepod ----- 🎙️ Support this podcast: ko-fi.com/acrossculturepod

Ruwani Gunawardene is Jessie's guest for this episode, where they explore intercultural reconciliation. Listen to this to hear a little bit about Ruwani's background, interests, and what it might look like to combine culture and faith in her contexts.   Apologies for the sound quality in this episode.  --- 🔗 LINKS 🔗 Ruwani's blog: http://www.interculturalru.com/  Listen to Tell Me the Old, Old Story here --- 🎙 Please subscribe and review this podcast 🎙 ---- 📱 CONNECT with ACross Culture 📱: FB: @acrossculturepod IG: @acrossculturepod More links: linktr.ee/acrossculturepod ----- Support this podcast: paypal.me/acrossculture

Eden Dayuha, a certified coach, speaker and trainer, joins Jessie to talk about John Maxwell coaching, singleness and her Dear Singles community.  🔗 LINKS 🔗: Dear Singles FB page Single And Secured Souls FB group Eden's personal FB page --- 🎙 Please subscribe and review this podcast 🎙 --- 📱 CONNECT with me 📱: linktr.ee/acrossculturepod FB: www.facebook.com/acrossculturepod IG: instagram.com/acrossculturepod ---- Support this podcast: paypal.me/acrossculture

Jessie is joined by Ian Collinge in this episode where he talks about heart music, music psychology, worship in the church and more.  Ending this episode is a clip from Arts Release's Resonance global project of Nara Ekele Mo, a popular Nigerian worship song. Hear the full song here. www.artsrelease.org --- 🎙 Please subscribe and review this podcast 🎙 --- CONNECT with me: linktr.ee/acrossculturepod FB: www.facebook.com/acrossculturepod IG: instagram.com/acrossculturepod ---- Support this podcast: paypal.me/acrossculture

Christina Tang shares her experiences of being a BBC who recently relocated to Hong Kong. Topics discussed: language, churches, learning a culture, the Hong Kong protests, political tensions. Christina recommends the book The Space Between Us: How Jesus Teaches Us to Live Together When Politics and Religion Pull Us Apart by Sarah Anderson.