Let’s be real. Australians are terrible at having conversations about race and ethnicity. One reason is that unlike our brothers and sisters from the U.S. who have had to deal with much more intense matters of racial division, we in Australia often lack the language, categories and nuance for intercultural...
East Asians in Australia are commonly associated with upward mobility. But the Bible often teaches downward mobility, as we consider Jesus and the original context of the Roman church. How do these two ideas work together for those to whom suffering is now a far away concept? New Testament scholar,...
This is the reality for many of us. Maybe you took a subject, one assignment, one workshop, or a once-off lecture… Would that equip you to serve effectively where God has sent you? Too often, leaders in ethnic churches go into ethnic church ministry unprepared. We are unprepared because we...
I’m incredibly thankful to the BST board for appointing me to this role and for their commitment to supporting this work. As a pastor of a local church in Brisbane, I’ve observed that Asian Australian practitioners in the past have sought to develop their ministries but are fairly limited in energy...
I am currently reading through the book of Acts and have just reached chapter 12. Here we find Peter in prison and the early church earnestly in prayer for him (v5). We aren’t told what they prayed, but it doesn’t appear that it was for him to be released (v15)....
