Embracing Your Shadow: Liberating the Good Troublemaker Within (Matthew 5:3-10)- Aiden Yang

Guest preacher, Aiden Yang, offers us reflections on the
Beatitudes and extends an invitation for us to embrace our shadow
selves- the "good troublemaker"- within while sharing his own
journey with us.


How might we learn to set our shadow selves free, living in ways
that both challenge the norms of a profoundly sick society and
align with the countercultural, anti-empirical ways of Jesus?


---- Aiden Yang is the author of The Spineless
Porcupine, an all-ages fable based on his journey of
self-discovery as an Asian American trans man. He’s delivered
engaging talks on creativity, diversity, and storytelling to
global audiences at Grace Hopper Celebration, Cisco, Oracle,
TransTech Summit, and Women Who Code. As someone who’s lived as
both male and female presenting, Christian and queer, and Asian
and American, he’s spent his entire life creating safe spaces and
bridges of understanding between seemingly opposing groups. He
lives in Oakland, California, and loves drumming, karaoke, and
performing standup comedy. 



For more on Aiden and his book, The Spineless
Porcupine, please visit www.AidenSYang.com.