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• Movie on India: “Slumdog Millionaire”

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    An incredible, touching story of an Indian boy. Read The New York Times review. Jamal Malik, an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, is about to experience the biggest day of his life. With the whole nation… Read More ›

• The Politics of the Pope

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  The political power of the Pope cannot be ignored. It is a worldwide force to be reckoned with. The new pope, Francis, is making an impact within the Vatican and the Roman Catholic Church. He is also providing political cover… Read More ›

• Theology and the “Han” of Hip Hop: A Short Note on Han, Hip Hop, and South Asian Americans Performing Blackness

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  Intro In his chapter on “The Sources and Norms of Black Theology” in A Black Theology of Liberation (1990), James Cone cites Black culture as one starting place for doing theology insofar as it gives expression to Black self-reflection on… Read More ›

• Generation to Generation: Family Process in Church and Synagogue

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  As church leaders may know, often our church communities are not the Christian utopia that we hope that it is or should be. Change is hard and conflicts abound. There is plenty of literature addressing a myriad of conflicts in… Read More ›

• 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 ›