Black Lives Still F***** Matter
*Author Note: Thank you for taking the time to read this post. As a pastor/ministry leader, I always feel the pressure to make my posts explicitly theological and/or biblical. In this particular post, I had to give myself permission to not explicitly address the theology at risk or relevant biblical passages. These are simply thoughts and feelings that have been generating inside of me, particularly in regards how to my experience in the evangelical church and my Asian American background relates to justice issues for the Black community. Here we go! Five years ago, I wrote a blog post about why #blacklivesmatter to me, which I discovered was not received well by a number of people in the white evangelical context I was working in at the time. If you want to read the original post, you can click here . Three years ago, I invited Chris Pennywell to share with my previous high school students about his personal experience as a Black man in the Central Valley and how his Afri