The Race-Wise Family: Pursuing and Valuing a Multiethnic Community and Culture with Helen Lee

Overcome to Become

If you came from a home where race was not discussed or if you experienced racial pain or trauma, today's topic may be a challenging one to navigate. I want you to know that you are not alone and my guest Helen Lee is going to help all of us to become race-wise and create race-wise families.
As parents we bear the responsibility of training and teaching our children about race from a biblical perspective. Gone are the days of us hoping that our children will value multiethnicity automatically or learn how to from someone else. If you're wondering where to start, I want you to lean all the way into today's episode with open hands and heart as Helen and I discuss:

• What it means to pursue multiethnicity and be a race-wise family
• God's intentionality and how he values multiethnicity
• How we can create communities of hope and healing
• Why we need to move beyond representation to creating a multiethnic community and culture
• Why we need to confront our own personal biases and take time to connect with others
• The church's responsibility in the pursuit of a multiethnic community and culture
• What our response should be when we are misunderstood and faced with rejection from others because of our decision to lead a race-wise family

I want to challenge all of us to be brave and willing to start the change within. Grab a copy of this book and rally others around us to read it as well and do this journey together.
Grab a copy of The Race Wise Family Here

About Helen:
Helen is the director of product innovation at InterVarsity Press, where she previously served as a marketing director and an acquisitions editor. She is an award-winning writer and has frequently covered issues of race, ethnicity, and identity, including her seminal articles on Asian American Christianity which appeared in Christianity Today in 1996 (“Silent Exodus”) and 2014 (“Silent No More”). Helen is a frequent conference speaker and has contributed to or authored numerous books, devotionals, and Bibles, including Growing Healthy Asian American Churches and The Missional Mom. She is also a serial entrepreneur/intrapreneur, founding or co-founding organizations such as Redbud Writers Guild, Ink Creative Collective, and Best Christian Workplaces Institute. Helen also serves as the executive producer of The Disrupters Podcast, Get in The Word with Truth’s Table, and The Every Voice Now Podcast. She and her husband Brian have three sons and one mini-Berne doodle, and they live in Chicagoland. When she is not caring for family or working, she loves birdwatching, baking bread, and chipping away at middle-grade fiction. You can follow her on social media @helenleebooks and find out more about her at helenleebooks.com.

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