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This spring marks one year since mass shootings in Atlanta and Indianapolis killed Korean, Chinese, and Sikh Americans. In the year that has followed, 1 in 5 Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) nationwide have experienced a hate incident. I grieve this nation’s racism. Sadly, I foresaw this surge of racism; as a sociologist of race who teaches Asian American studies, I know that history repeats itself. In previous periods of economic downturn, pandemic, or war, Asians in the United States were blamed, met with racist policies, and attacked. We saw this pattern with the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882; Japanese American incarceration during World War II; the deportation of Muslims, Arab Americans, and South Asians after 9/11; and the SARS outbreak in 2003. [...] Yet, as someone who grew up in a Chinese American church in San Francisco, I know history repeats itself in another way: God repeatedly breaks into history and uses God’s people to bring about transformative hope. In the church, we call these moments where God breaks in kairos moments. Though Stop AAPI Hate (SAH) is not a faith-based organization, one of my primary motivations in starting SAH was to bear witness to God’s way of right relations — a world where no group is excluded because of their race.
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Search for Pastor/Administrator The Community of Saint Peter, an independent, intentional Eucharistic community that rose from the ashes in 2010, is seeking a full-time pastor/administrator. Team approach to lead; board of trustees to steward; gracious membership that welcomes all to an open Table. Apply by May 1, 2022. Church on the Move: A Practical Guide for Ministry in the Community Drawing on his experiences as a pastor who walked, cycled, and took the bus as he went about his work, Norvell proposes and provides practical ways for people of the “living church” to start moving in, around, and with their communities to truly move toward renewal and social justice. |
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