S5E3: Intercultural Reconciliation - with Ruwani Gunawardene

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 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/acrossculture/message

Cultural identity or Christian identity? Can you have both? Which comes first? Explore some of these questions with Jessie and Yinxuan in this episode of ACross Culture. Yinxuan calls himself a Christian, Chinese and a scholar. He shares his testimony of coming to faith from an atheist family with one parent in the Communist Party, and talks about his research - giving us insight into the effects of recent Hong Kong migration to the UK on Chinese churches. Yinxuan reads from 2 Corinthians 4:7-9 at the end of the ep. --- 🔗 LINKS 🔗 https://www.biblesociety.org.uk/latest/news/with-the-chinese-church-in-the-uk-at-a-crossroads-now-is-the-time-to-act/ https://lst.ac.uk/the-bible-and-the-chinese-community-in-britain/ https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2022/october/british-chinese-survey-hong-kong-churches.html --- 🎙 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 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/acrossculture/message

ACross Culture is back! Social media content creator, speaker & host Paula Melissa is Jessie's guest for this episode of ACross Culture. They talk about learning languages, podcasts, Christian music and passions. Paula hosts two podcasts - SheHH and Hermosas Chicas Negras.  --- 🔗 LINKS 🔗 https://www.instagram.com/paulamelissaxx/ https://www.instagram.com/shehhpodcast/ https://www.instagram.com/hermosaschicasnegras/  --- 🎙 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 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/acrossculture/message

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 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/acrossculture/message

Dayalan Mahesan joins Jessie as her guest for the final episode of the series. Dayalan is an entrepreneur who mainly works in property and is also working with Evangelical Alliance's South Asian Forum.  Listen to this episode where they talk about setting up businesses, ministry, monoethnic diaspora churches, multiethnic communities, identity and more.  Dayalan also shares a word of encouragement based on Psalm 103:15-16 and recommends the book 'Redeeming Your Time' by Jordan Raynor.  --- 🔗 LINKS 🔗 Click to read an article written by Dayalan for Tamil Heritage Month. Dayalan's Instagram: @dayalanmahesan_kw --- 🎙 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 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/acrossculture/message

Stephanie Biggs is an Ethnomusicologist who calls herself a world traveller! Listen to this episode of ACross Culture where Stephanie and Jessie talk about travelling, experiences in Tanzania and the construction of whiteness there, Stephanie's work & ministry, perceptions of worship norms and more (including song contests!).  --- 🔗 LINKS 🔗 Support Stephanie here >>> Kujenga Upya (ACTI ministry/giving page)  Artists in Christian Testimony International (ACTI) home page: Inspiro Arts Alliance (a ministry of Operation Mobilization)  TED TALK - the danger of single story  --- 🎙 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 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/acrossculture/message

davecreates is Jessie's guest for this episode of ACross Culture. Hear more about him and his music, faith, identity and more.  His latest release was on December 31st with a new collective he formed with some friends called "Reflective". Check out the EP here: https://album.link/i/1601887414 --- 🔗 MORE LINKS 🔗 davecreates' music - https://linktr.ee/davecreates Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/iamdavecreates/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/iamdavecreates @iamdavecreates --- 🎙 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 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/acrossculture/message

Revd. Mark Nam joins Jessie as the guest for this episode of ACross Culture. Listen to this as they discuss identity, church, the Teahouse, forms of resistance, racial injustice and more. --- 🔗 LINKS 🔗 Follow Mark: Twitter - @marknam Facebook - @marknam Instagram - @marknam Visit the website of The Tea House  --- 🎙 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 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/acrossculture/message

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 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/acrossculture/message

Rachael Newham, author of 'Learning to Breathe' and 'And Yet' joins Jessie on this week's episode podcast, where they talk about mental health, the charity she founded, lament, and grief.  --- 🔗 LINKS 🔗 Rachael's instagram, Facebook, Twitter: @RachaelNewham90 Books can be bought here:  And Yet | Rachael Newham Learning to Breathe --- 🎙 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 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/acrossculture/message