here am I, standing at the center, an inspiring place, pondering how often I should share my thoughts out loud and how many people would want to listen

Follow our daily spotlight every day in May on Instagram or Facebook feed of Erasing Shame podcast https://erasingshame.com

Why are Christians and churches not talking about what people are talking about? Our failure to engage is relinquishing our role in diffusing the harmful polarization of our society today methinks...

Great insight from a TEDx talk by Ruth Chang, and what I’m deciding for this audio podcast "How to Make Hard Choices" - TEDx talk by Ruth Chang youtube.com/watch?v=8GQZuzIdeQQ Link to my YouTube channel youtube.com/djchuang

I want to be sharing more of things I’ve learned over the years to help people with Adulting, trying to decide if I should publish my thoughts first or find a few people that want to be in conversation first

How was Jesus a protester or activist in his time? And if we are to be like Jesus, how should we be activists and protesters in our time when it comes to injustices and politics?

One atheist I talked with recently was really stuck on this idea of a God that he doesn’t believe in, I wish he would spend his time and energy on something more productive instead of talking about a God that he doesn’t believe in and doesn’t exist

You have something, I have some thing, and you can decide and choose what to do with it, to make your life better, to make others lives better, make the world better

Curiosity is a great ingredient for learning more about the world, and they say that leadership is constant ongoing learning, and we are learning a ton during this coronavirus global pandemic, and one more thing, one of the best way to learn is to experiment

will all that is going on in the world, when will the protests end? when will people get what they want? here’s a few of my speculations and temporary thoughts in the moment..

What is it like for a Caucasian to pastor and minister in an Asian American church? Pastor Matty Blevins shares all in this conversation with DJ Chuang. Well, not everything, but some things he's learned along the way, since he's only been in a non-white church context for a year and a half. Show notes at the multiasian.church blog https://multiasi…

Roy Kim talks with DJ Chuang about this taboo subject of how pastors struggle with pornography. Too many pastors struggle secretly with porn addiction. Research says 57% of pastors have struggled with porn and Asian pastors and Asian American ones are no exception. This ugly struggle is true for many men, and some women, regardless of ethnic backgr…

The most painful time in my life happened in February 2017. It took me like 9 months to recover back to normal. Didn't think that would happen. Here's the story.

while at a conference in Opryland Hotel, it took me 3 days to find Nashville hot chicken because I didn’t have a rental car and didn’t want to pay for a Uber ride into downtown

What would you do if you hear people talking about why Parasite won the Oscar for Best Picture? And they don’t have a clue that an Asian person was standing right there?

Random conversations with 2 anonymous guests at post- #cultivate11 conference tweetup at a nearby Starbucks on May 5, 2011 Cultivate Conference = Where culture, innovation and communication connect :: May 4-5, 2011

A brief word from my other podcast, which I'd encourage you to check out, erasingshame.com - honest talk for healthy living.

a chat with Mark Grunden, a small groups pastor at Saddleback Church (one church in multiple locations, in Southern California plus 4 other countries) about how this church is becoming an "All Nations Congregation" as it is stated in one of its strategies for the 21st century cf. Saddleback Church Core Values & Strategies & Priorities over the cour…

First time I shared about my mental health journey at an ethnic Chinese church, back in June 2013. https://djchuang.com/where-is-god-when-good-people-hurt/

before you share your idea with the world, write it down or record it, here’s why

thinking about open source, and how we can have kingdom impact with no staff and no money

what is going on in downtown Nashville? just walking to dinner and thinking about some technical challenges with podcasting, but Anchor does make it very easy

Smashburger will be a frequent stop for me for the next 100 days

one more thing I want to work towards making a contribution in the world is this topic.. there’s a lot of raising awareness and education that’s needed to demystify philanthropy in our faith communities

describing my 2nd of 3 life goals that i finally came up with after age 52, and a good word about this anchor app

most my life, i didn’t have specific goals i was interested in working towards. i recently discovered 3. here, i describe my first goal, erasing shame - a podcast at erasingshame.com

January 28, 2013 article in OC Register - "O.C. exports Asian American churches to the world" https://djchuang.com/asian-american-churches-around-the-oc-and-the-world/

see the blog post for the manuscript of this talk shared at Urbana 12 https://djchuang.com/step-up-speak-up-live-it-up/

How church sizes make all the difference - a DJ Chuang interview - Dave Michener, Executive Pastor of Bridgeway Community Church (Columbia, Maryland).

Don't let perfection and excellence prevent you from sharing something because what you have to share matters as is...

Reflections and thoughts about remembering my Dad a year after he passed away, as I spend a few days with my family of origin - Mom and 2 younger brothers.

a few thoughtsDJ Chuang @ www.djchuang.com

OC Christmas Tour 2011 half-time commentary read the full recap at djchuang.com/2011/oc-christmas-tour-2011-recap/DJ Chuang @ www.djchuang.com

Adding to the discussion about leadership development, in this episode of the Multi-Asian Church Podcast Series, Ed Choy and DJ Chuang talk about owning the vision of an multi-Asian/multi-ethnic churches. https://djchuang.com/owning-the-vision-multi-asian-church-podcast-episode-6/

For those of you keeping score at home, this is episode number 5. In this episode of the Multi-Asian Church Podcast Series, Ed Choy and I talk about developing Asian American leaders in the context of an multi-Asian/multi-ethnic churches. You’ll need to listen more carefully, since the background noise at this episode’s Starbucks (in Dallas) was lo…

The conversation continues. In episode 4 of the Multi-Asian Church Podcast Series, Ed Choy and DJ Chuang discuss leadership, and how can church leaders better develop and connect with Asian American leaders. https://djchuang.com/episode-4-of-the-multi-asian-church-podcast-leadership/

Yes there’s more to be said about the importance of vision. In episode 3 of the Multi-Asian Church Podcast Series, Ed Choy and I dig deeper into how to communicate compelling vision in multi-Asian/multi-ethnic churches. While the gifts of a strong communicator is valuable, it isn’t the magic bullet in getting vision to stick. We discuss several oth…

Continuing the conversation with Ed Choy about multi-Asian/multi-ethnic churches. (For the record, Ed is 1/4 Chinese.) The topic is on communicating vision. Of course vision is important. Without vision people perish. But how does vision play into developing Asian American leaders for a multi-Asian/multi-ethnic church? How does vision need to be co…

On this Multi-Asian Church Podcast Series, with DJ Chuang and Ed Choy. Each episode covers a topic about multi-Asian/multi-ethnic churches, those that are effectively ministering to next generation Asian Americans. https://djchuang.com/multi-asian-church-podcast-series-episode-1/

a workshop about the idea for "church without walls" at some event or conference back around 2008, with Daniel Young of NewSong Dallas (when it was around back then) lowering the bar of doing church, raising the bar of being church

DJ Chuang was guest host for the NextGenerAsianChurch conversational talk-back about my 9/26/07 presentation "Revitalizing Asian American Churches for New Generations." -- a roundtable conversation with David Park, Cyrus Lee, Joshua Settles (recorded as a Talkshoe conference call)

a presentation made to 150 Asian American pastors and ministry leaders on 9/26/07 - more details at http://www.djchuang.com/2007/revitalizing-asian-american-churches/

DJ Chuang's sermon titled “Why does it hurt so much?” based on John 11:17-36, delivered at Great Commission Community Church in Arlington, Virginia, on the Sunday of the week when the Virginia Tech shootings happened in April 2007. More notes at djchuang.com/why-does-it-hurt-so-much

We'd had some offline conversations and put the Asian American Emergent Skypecast to bed (or, on ice, if you prefer a more wintery metaphor.) Apparently, 1 word in that mix, Emergent, scared off some people. And, our conversations weren't all that alarmingly edgy emergent, at least not theologically ambiguous and exploratory enough to warrant the l…

This 2nd Asian American Emergents Skypecast happened on Sunday night, August 27th, 2006. On this conference call were: DJ Chuang, Ben Pun, David Park, and Sivin Kit. We had conversations on topics like these: How does the emergent conversation impact the issues of the Asian American Church? No Asian American emergent cohort in your area? No problem…

DJ Chuang @ www.djchuang.com

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