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“What Do You Believe?” Film Review on Wonder Woman (2017)
“Men are easily corrupted, and that they do not deserve the Amazons’ protection.” “It is not about what they deserve. It is about what you believe.” “What do you believe?” “I believe in love. Only love will truly save the… Read More ›
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Reflections on the Modern Art of Sho (Calligraphy)
Sho書 (as it is referred to in Japan; Ch shu) is the simple exercise of writing kanji 漢字 (Ch hanzi or ideograms) and phonetic scripts such as Japanese kana and Korean hanguel to communicate thoughts, express feelings, and share information…. Read More ›
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Violence, Otherness and Identity In Isaiah 63:1-6: The Trampling One Coming From Edom
It is “a damn Edom theology.” Bruce Cresson’s outright summary seems accurate, when one looks into Hebrew Bible’s dominant portrayals of Edom. Once Jacob’s envied brother yet a subjugated nation, if not a vassal, of past is now Israel’s arch… Read More ›
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Tongues and Community Building in Corinth (1 Corinthians 12-14)
Introduction A study of the frequency of the phrase “speaking in tongues” in Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians suggests that the phenomenon was significant in the Corinthian churches. The New Testament (NT) has thirty-five references to “speaking in tongues.”… Read More ›
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The Conference on Faith and History
Shivraj Mahendra, Editor in History at AATF, is serving as Graduate Student Representative at the Conference on Faith and History (http://www.faithandhistory.org/about-cfh/history/ see also, https://www.facebook.com/groups/faith.history/ ). Please contact him at shivrajkm@gmail.com for more information on membership and benefits.
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Film and Christian Preaching: Toward a Cinemate Homiletic (Part III)
c-2. Application of the cinematic narrative flow for the sermon structure The preacher now has come up with a basic cinematic sermon idea, theme, or flow from the first stage of the cinematic socio-spiritual hermeneutic. At this second stage, the… Read More ›
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Film and Christian Preaching: Toward a Cinemate Homiletic (Part II)
V. Scene #4: Introduction to a Cinemate Homiletic Now, what exactly is a cinemate homiletic? What kind of preaching is that? How are we going to approach film in creating a cinemate homiletic and how are we going to… Read More ›
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Film and Christian Preaching: Toward a Cinemate Homiletic (Part I)
I didn’t want you to enjoy the film. I wanted you to look very closely at your own soul[1] Sam Peckinpah (Director) I. Hook The cinema or pop film[2] has now become “the cathedral of the [twenty-first] century.”[3] Among its… Read More ›
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Grassroots Asian Theology: Thinking the Faith from the Ground up
Simon Chan, professor of systematic theology at Trinity College in Singapore, challenges the way in which Asian theology has been understood and reified by Western theologians. Chan poses the question of why Asian theology largely consists of elitist theological accounts… Read More ›
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Intercultural Ministry: Hope for A Changing World
In response to the contemporary challenge of multiculturality and the problem of what Martin Luther King Jr. once called “Sunday 11:00 am the most segregated hour in the US,” Grace Ji-Sun Kim and Jann Aldedge-Clanton wrote a timely needed book,… Read More ›
