This essay is the third of the three part series that attempts to demonstrate how the global dialectic of convergence and divergence is playing out in the Korean American church, particularly in regards to its communal vision.[1] This essay concludes… Read More ›
In A Faith of Our Own, Sharon Kim argues that the second generation only Korean American churches are a sociological representation of their hybrid spirituality, composed uniquely of the combination of the spirituality of their parent generation and American evangelicalism…. Read More ›
The false dichotomy between subject and object As humans can make God an object, they can make other humans their objects which they deal with or even use while they themselves are subjects in their relational schemes. Definitely, it is… Read More ›
Caste conflict “is no mere orientalist fantasy.”1 This is important to note especially in light of dominant caste articulations that falsely argue that cases of caste-based discrimination and conflict are being “produced” by Dalits for consumption by curious and condescending… Read More ›
April was celebrated as #DalitHistoryMonth. An amazing team of Dalit women that included Thenmozhi Soundararajan, Christina Thomas Dhanaraj, Manisha Mashaal, Sanghapali Aruna Lohitakshi, and Vidya Karunakarn, among others, toured the United States and conducted teach-ins and workshops and led discussions… Read More ›
**Note: The article originally appears at The Huffington Post. It is easy to forget your history. It is particularly easy to forget if your history is neither a part of the mainstream American historical narrative nor included in our history… Read More ›
We live in a fast-paced world of complex challenges. While today, we are more technologically connected than ever before, paradoxically with this also come forms of disconnection—from others, ourselves, the earth, and God. Amidst seemingly endless choices and busy lives,… Read More ›
For its first season, ABC’s Fresh Off the Boat, which has an Asian American family at the center of the story, made a lot of buzzes around pop cultural critics, both from professional pundits (e.g., a New York Times critic) and… Read More ›
Have you recently felt outdated in your preaching content and style at the 21st century pulpit? Have you felt the need to refresh your preaching practice in the era of image, sound, art, and creativity, not to mention the jaw-dropping… Read More ›
In line with his previous postcolonial reading of biblical nation narrative, Decolonizing Josiah: Toward a Postcolonial Reading of the Deuteronomistic History (2005), Uriah Kim re-reads the Davidic story of national establishment with postcolonial concerns. In this volume, Kim employs a… Read More ›
Asian American Theological Forum 