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• Pope Mania for Asian Americans: Is the Pope for Us?

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  Unless you have just recently returned to civilization from exploring underground caverns, you probably have heard, seen, felt the palpitation from Pope Francis’ visit to the United States. Pope mania was all over the country as hundreds of millions Catholics… Read More ›

• Worship on the Way: Exploring Asian North American Christian Experience

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  What is the relationship between worship and culture? Russell Yee argues for worship that is contextualized to the cultural dispositions, traditions, and values of Asian North American (ANA) worshipers. Yee critiques a widely held assumption that Western articulations of Christianity,… Read More ›

• Homiletical Insight from the Book of Haggai: Deconstruction of the Temple and Reconstruction of God’s homelessness

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  Introduction In suffering—not only natural disasters, but also catastrophes caused by humankind intentionally or unintentionally, people bring up theodicy questions. When we answer the theodicy question stating that it is God’s will, it is ungodly to affirm the will of… Read More ›

• Asian American Christian Ethics: Voices, Methods, Issues

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  Asian Americans have a unique voice to contribute to the academy and yet, in the field of Christian ethics, there has not been Asian American voices or scholarship taking place specifically dealing with Asian American experiences. For the first time,… Read More ›

• Understanding Asian Americans Using Taylor and Tillich: The Sociopolitical and Theological Meaning of Mis/Non-Recognition

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  Introduction As ethnic minorities, Asian Americans have a long and complex history in the United States. They have been the leading exemplar of those who have immigrated to this multi-ethnic/cultural society, pursuing American Dream. Some have succeeded in achieving freedom,… Read More ›

• Asian Americans: Oral Histories of First to Fourth Generation Americans from China, the Philippines, Japan, India, the Pacific Islands, Vietnam and Cambodia

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  Sam Sue, 2nd generation Chinese American, recalls his childhood in Mississippi, “We thought of buying a house in 1966, but it didn’t work out. It was a white neighborhood, and the day before closing, we received a telephone call. Someone… Read More ›

• Comparing the African Veneration of Ancestors with Korean Ancestor Worship in Relation to the Attempts to Reconcile It with Christianity

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  Introduction Christianity is a world religion, but it also has its own distinctive features and characteristics in specific places as it is always embodied in individual and particular contexts. In other words, whenever Christian message is spread to a new… Read More ›

• Postcolonial Discipleship of Embodiment: An Asian and Asian American Feminist Reading of the Gospel of Mark

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  In this volume, Jin Young Choi provides an alternative understanding of discipleship in the Gospel of Mark. Using the hermeneutics of phronesis, she offers a fresh interpretation of three passages, Mark 6:45-52, 7:24-30, and 7:31-37. The key contribution of her… Read More ›

• What I Do I will also Continue to Do! (Rhetoric from the Edge in 2 Corinthians 11:1–6, 12–15: A Dalit Reading): Part I

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  1. Introduction   The rhetoric of the marginalized … demonstrates that … the ‘humblest’ do not only ‘stand forth’ in order to persuade; by persuading, they are also ‘standing forth,’ assuming agency.1   These words of Jacqueline Bacon aptly capture… Read More ›

• A Dialogue between Matthew 20:1-16 (the Prodigal Employer) and Ku Kim’s My Hope: Part II

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  Matthew 20:1-16 (the Parable of the Prodigal Employer) Matthew 20:1-16, often called the Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard, is placed at the center of Matthew’s three episodes where Jesus teaches about “the last being first and the first… Read More ›