“This is what the LORD Almighty said: ‘Administer true justice; show mercy and compassion to one another. Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. Do not plot evil against each other.’” -Zechariah 7:9-10 I am… Read More ›
When I visited an H-mart in the suburban Chicago area, I said to myself with amazement, “Here is minari.” It made me surprised and delighted to see a Korean leafy vegetable in the United States thousands of miles away from… Read More ›
Reaching in the dark, experiencing the sorrow of loneliness and hopeless, a young girl with grey hair is surrounded by a pain that no one can understand. Where she was alone in silence, looking to pointlessness, eyes closed, maybe weeping,… Read More ›
The image of Eve that has been presented is that of a seductress, a dangerous being of disobedience, while the traditional image of Mary is of the holy mother of Jesus, a being obedient to God. These opposing images have… Read More ›
The Lisu people are one of the Tibeto-Burman ethnic groups who reside in the mountainous regions of China, Thailand, Myanmar (Burma), and India. The Lisu dominantly practiced swidden agriculture and hunting for livelihood, and they worshipped animism until Christianity came… Read More ›
Grace Ji-Sun Kim has launched a new highly acclaimed Religion & Culture podcast, “Madang.” Freely accessible via the following links: Spotify https://spoti.fi/3rSq417 Apple Podcasts https://apple.co/3mt3Bq1 YouTube https://bit.ly/3cWt7B1 FB https://www.facebook.com/gracejisunkim/videos/?ref=page_internal Web https://gracejisunkim.wordpress.com/
Writing a book about the lived religiosity of youth is precious, and few scholars have pursued a more richly ethnographic approach vis-à-vis the Chinese Catholic youth within Mainland China. Chiaretto Yan, a missiologist, trained at Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome… Read More ›
Texts: Mark 1:9-11; Isa 42:1-4, 6-7 Baptism is one of the most important sacraments in the Christian Community and has been practiced for a long time. Since the experience of baptism is usually given only once in life, it remains… Read More ›
As William T. Cavanaugh says “politics is a practice of imagination,”[1] imagination is political because it has the potential to critique reality and evoke the hope for political transformation. While theologians have used biblical stories as the resource for the… Read More ›
Vol. 8 No. 1 Articles & Book Reviews Bible Article 1: “The Eve and Mary Parallel: Misogyny in 1 Timothy 2:11-15” Hye Hyun Han Article 2: “Lament as Resistance and Rage: An Asian Woman Immigrant’s Reading of Psalm 137 in… Read More ›
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