Gender Incongruent Field

            On my flight from Beijing to Kunming this summer, I picked up a copy of “China Daily” (Aug. 20, 2011) and was surprised to find all kinds of news about women. 

• ·         In entertainment news, the large picture of a famous singer and the story about her imminent come back tour was prominently displayed. 

• ·         In national news, a young woman (24 years old) was criticized for her lack of qualification to run the 1.5 billion yuan international project (Project Hope). 

• ·         In the Sport section, the young female golfer Yani (22 years old, ranking number 1 in the world) made news visiting the Youth Golf Invitational.  Another large picture and story about the Chinese National Woman Soccer team winning the semifinal over Brazil donned the next page. 

• ·         In the World News section, China Daily reported the teenager female daredevil Maya (19 years old) wowed the crowds in Japan.  She is the first female ever joined and won the auto race (in 44 years).  

Asian American Women on Leadership

 Another wonderful blog that worth checking into:  http://aawolblog.blogspot.com/

       I am a Christian.  I am a woman.  I am an Asian living in America.  My spiritual root, gender, and cultural heritage are all parts of who I am.  To talk about wholistic spiritual formation, I believe that we need to talk about all aspects of our humanity.  A lot of time, we were taught a one-size-fits-all spirituality and then we lived and served accordingly.....and realized slowly that just like one-size-fits-all clothing doesn't usually fit anyone properly, neither will the one-size-fits-all spirituality. 

        I pray and hope that this blog will help you starting thinking about the Asian American Women experiences in North America Churches (Asian or non-Asian churches alike)....especially in regard to leadership.

Could Christ Have Been Born A Woman?

(as published in Kingdom Resources For Christ, Sept., 2011) KRC website
           About a month ago I came across a systematic theology paper (on Christology) that I wrote almost 20 years ago, titled: Could Christ have been born a woman?  I (a young mother then), partly enraged by the injustice and oppression observed in many women’s lives, and partly still hurting from my own somewhat negative experience with church leadership, decided that this topic would be one way to deal with my own internal turmoil. However, I approached the topic from a different perspective: the perspective of “power and leadership”, based on Jesus’ life and ministry.  To me, after all, it was never about the “gender” of Jesus, but the human (sinful) view of power and leadership.

Women Panel Discussion

       On April 16, 2011, some 15+ Asian American Christian women crowded into a college apartment and talked, shared, and struggled over different issues that were very real and very important for them.  The followings are their questions.  Listen carefully to their voices behind each questions......their struggles hidden between sentences.  And ask yourself: what did you hear? and how would you answer their hearts' cries?

Part (I) General question about relationship with God

• ·         What do you do when it feels hard to pray because your heart isn’t there and you don’t want to force yourself to pray because you don’t feel like it would be genuine?
• ·         When you are feeling distant from God or just spiritually dry, what do you do to help resolve that?
• ·         What biblical truths do you/should we emanate the most in your/our walk as a Christian woman/women?
• ·         Share with us one defining moment/event in your walk with God
• ·         If I don't pray a lot, read the Bible, meditate during a period of time, will God reach me and save me from being away from God?