Comments on: Sex, Intimacy, and a Cautionary Tale (Yes I am a fan of the show)

By: Top 15 Confessions for the Asian American Christian (2007) « Man Downstairs

Top 15 Confessions for the Asian American Christian (2007) « Man Downstairs — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 03:21:11 +0000

[...] is the unacknowledged and unacknowledgeable swampland beneath the church brochure of tidy scenery. Only a few are brave enough to confront and address it; the rest of us put on petty and hypocritical masks of [...]

By: Top 15 Confessions for the Asian American Christian (2007) « the cutting truth

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 03:05:15 +0000

By: Top 15 Confessions for the Asian American Christian (2007) « the cutting truth

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 03:03:04 +0000

[...] the unacknowledged and unacknowledgeable swampland beneath the church brochure of tidy scenery. Only a few are brave enough to confront and address it; the rest of us put on petty and hypocritical masks of [...]

By: thecuttingtruth

thecuttingtruth — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 20:14:47 +0000

Pete Rong,
glad to see someone gutsy enough to expose this underbelly of church life, warts & all. hope you don’t mind, but i’ve linked this site to a recent entry on my blog titled “Top 15 confessions for the Asian American Christian (2007).”

i’m sure you have a larger and deeper view of how sex affects the AA church as a whole, but in my limited experience, i do have this to add. In the minefield of sex, everyone wants to be perceived as a victim. A victim of abuse, a victim of the internet, a victim of a demanding boyfriend/girlfriend, a victim of porn. While many legitimately are victims, a great % are not. Some are the abusers, the assaulters, the exploiters . . . and they can’t hide behind this victim-persona so espoused by the likes of Oprah and Dr. Phil. Because sometimes shame IS good and necessary – even in the AA church.

By: Ray Li’s Blog

Ray Li’s Blog — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 01:55:02 +0000

By: elderj

elderj — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 06:28:00 +0000

good post…. now can you help me help my AA students who seem to think that I’m as naive as they pretend to be about these issues?

By: Link Love 2 « Next Gener.Asian Church

Link Love 2 « Next Gener.Asian Church — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 01:40:51 +0000

[...] blogging hibernation to share his prophetic calling out of Asian American churches to talk about sex and intimacy. Our silence has murdered our call to purity. It has been this sin of omission that we are so [...]

By: crimson heart

crimson heart — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:30:45 +0000

one more thing … oh im sure you knew all about that already.

By: crimson heart

crimson heart — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:29:13 +0000

let’s not forget about the Asian American culture too. sex is not appropriate for discussions for some reason. Asian parents don’t really talk about the “s” word since it is almost related to the “t” word (taboo) heck, my non-Christian parents never talk about it and im sure almost every other Asian American had the same experience. so .. AA culture + Christian faith … completely neglects the sex topic.

By: LAK

LAK — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 21:05:14 +0000

Good stuff, Peter. I guess this goes along with the cheap intimacy talk that we had years and years ago. I also think that one of the reasons why pastors and other “holy” men (and women!) fall into sexual sin so easily and readily is because I think a person’s passion for God is directly related to sexual passion, i.e. BIG passion for God = BIG passion for sex. Even God talks about Israel prostituting herself…