
DJ Chuang podcast, aka orange Asian man
By DJ Chuang

DJ Chuang podcast, aka orange Asian manMar 16, 2023

at the center of Union Station DC

Christmas at Eastside 2022
Enjoy the nostalgia of the holidays during Eastside's Christmas experience.
https://eastside.com/christmas-at-eastside/

May is a celebration of life for Asian Americans and mental health

Answer the questions people are asking already

How to make hard decisions
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

Going into 2021 with More Ideas

What did Jesus do to the political leaders in his time?

Don’t stay stuck in life, Mister Atheist

Where each and everyone of us are on a level playing field

What are you most curious about?

have you heard anyone ask this question?

MultiAsian.Church: A White Pastor Ministering in a Japanese American Church with Grace and Truth
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://multiasian.church/a-japanese-american-church-with-a-white-pastor-serving-harmoniously/

Can we talk about Asian American pastors and pornography?
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 background, whether Korean American, Chinese American, Japanese American, Indian American, and the many other ethnicities and nationalities in the world, Asians and non-Asians alike.
Show notes at https://multiasian.church/asian-american-pastors-and-pornography/

When I Got Locked Up in a Psych Ward for 72 Hours and What Happened Next
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.

Nashville hot chicken isn’t so popular a thing in Nashville

Parasite is a joke.. older white men that don’t get it

snapshot of church communications back in 2011
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

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

How Saddleback Church is Growing as an All Nations Congregation
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 course of its history

say that again

driving on the five

walking in Nashville

My first day of using the smash pass

Life goal #3: Asian American Christian Philanthropy

Life goal #2: multiasian churches

finally i have 3 life goals

hello all and welcome to my ideas

OC Register featured article about Asian American Churches
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/

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

when something is better than nothing
Don't let perfection and excellence prevent you from sharing something because what you have to share matters as is...

A year later after Father
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.

Owning the Vision: Multi-Asian Church Podcast Episode 6
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/

Leadership Development: Multi-Asian Church Podcast Episode 5
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 louder than last week’s Starbucks location (in Newport Beach).
https://djchuang.com/leadership-development-multi-asian-church-podcast-episode-5/

Episode 4 of the Multi-Asian Church Podcast: Leadership
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/

Vision Revisited: Episode 3 of the Multi-Asian Church Podcast
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 other factors in developing vision, developing leaders, and developing the church. And I even mention a couple of specific examples, venturing into dangerous territory there because that can open up more room for misunderstanding, as if we haven’t done that already.
https://djchuang.com/vision-revisited-episode-3-of-the-multi-asian-church-podcast/

Communicating Vision: Episode 2 of the Multi-Asian Church Podcast
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 communicated? It did take us a while for the conversation to warm up on this podcast — skip right to 9:44 if you want to get right to the meat, er, heat.
https://djchuang.com/vision-episode-2-of-the-multi-asian-church-podcast/

Episode #1: What is a multi-Asian church?
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/

what does it mean to be the church?
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

talking about Revitalizing Asian American Churches for New Generations
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)

Revitalizing Asian American Churches for New Generations
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/

Why does it hurt so much? (John 11:17-36)
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

Next Gener.Asian Church Skypecast
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 label, even though we did stay conversational and unstructured.
We've had a handful of great skypecasts over the past months, virtually connecting emerging leaders ministering to Asian American Christians around the U.S., Canada, and even Malaysia. Now the skypecast is being resurrected under a new name.

2nd Asian American Emergents Skypecast
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!
- What is Emergent missing by not having many visible Asian American participants?

Fully Alive: Telling Stories
2005 Summer Retreat (with ACC Lighthouse)
Part 4 of 4

The Reveal: The life you were meant to live
2005 Summer Retreat (with ACC Lighthouse)
Part 3 of 4

The Rebuild: Habits of grace
2005 Summer Retreat (with ACC Lighthouse)
Part 2 of 4

Extreme Makeover: Renovation of the Heart
2005 Summer Retreat (with ACC Lighthouse)
Part 1 of 4

Daily Commute with DJ Chuang, July 14, 2005
on an evening commute from Chantilly, Virginia, to Bethesda, Maryland.. talked about coughing, interruption from a phone call, transition to a new role at work, thoughts about podcasting, rain in the background noise

Daily Commute Podcast, April 14th + April 18th, 2005
Combined 2 audios from April 14th episode and April 18th episode, back in 2005, when i was trying out different production workflows, gear and equipment
my ramblings: trying to do a podcast without post-production; talked about attending a friend’s wedding at Princeton Chapel; emerging church conversation being largely a communication gap