AAPI Reading List

May is AAPI Heritage Month! We are so thankful for our AAPI brothers and sisters and want to take time this month to engage their stories and wisdom. Below is a list of books written by Asian-American Christian authors — we encourage you to read one this month.

Reading List

** These resources were pulled from a longer list compiled by DJ Chuang

Now I Become Myself: How Deep Grace Heals Our Shame and Restores Our True Self by Ken Shigematsu

Tell Her Story by Nijay Gupta

Experiencing Friendship with God: How the Wilderness Draws Us to His Presence by Faith Eury Cho

Our Unforming: De-Westernizing Spiritual Formation by Cindy S. Lee

The Race-Wise Family: Ten Postures to Becoming Households of Healing and Hope by Helen Lee and Michelle Ami Reyes

Choosing Us: Marriage and Mutual Flourishing in a World of Difference by Gail Song Bantum and Brian Bantum

Silence and Beauty: Hidden Faith Born of Suffering by Makoto Fujimura

Beyond Colorblind: Redeeming Our Ethnic Journey by Sarah Shin

Raise Your Voice: Why We Stay Silent and How to Speak Up by Kathy Khang

Viewing Suggestions

The Asian Americans (PBS Documentary)

The Namesake

Minari (Oscar winning film)

The Farewell

Turning Red (available through Disney+)

Asian-American Identity and COVID-19

In the summer of 2020, LCAH recorded a series of conversations on the intersection of race/ethnicity and the pandemic. Listen to this conversation hosted by our former Executive Pastor, Yang Chen.