Author Archives
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Season for Relationships: Youth in China and the Mission of the Church
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 ›
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Sermon: “A Sense of Baptism”
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 ›
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Moon Ik-Hwan’s Sacramental Imagination for Political Transformation in His Sermon
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 ›
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Vol. 8 No. 1
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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Pentecostalism and Politics of Conversion in India
In Pentecostalism and Politics of Conversion in India, Sarbeswar Sahoo, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT), presents the complexity of understanding conversion in India. From the context of the tribal communities of Rajasthan, Sahoo… Read More ›
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Unsettling Truth: The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery
Unsettling Truth is a book of lamentations that mourns the collective and structured evil and sin inflicted on the Aboriginal communities who lived on this continent before European settlement, and it reveals the brokenness of settlers’ ideas of colonization from… Read More ›
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The Crisis of Evangelicalism and Public Theology
Introduction As a theologian and a pastor, I cannot help but feel frustrated with the reality of today’s Christianity; it is no longer new to hear that more and more seminaries and churches are struggling with serious (financial) difficulties, as… Read More ›
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Exploring the Mission Theology of Donald Anderson McGavran: A Historical and Missiological Reflection
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Becoming a Peacemaker
As we see in this fresco by the Italian artist Fra Angelico (1395-1455), Christ and his disciples sit at the center of the composition, forming a circle of fellowship. Christ’s right-hand raises in a gesture of teaching, referring to the theme… Read More ›
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Vol. 7 No. 2
Vol. 7 No. 1 Articles & Book Reviews Bible Article: “‘Can’t Complain’ A Response to Spivak’s “Can’t the Subaltern Speak?” from a Post-colonial Pinoy/Filipinx (of the) American Diaspora Perspective” Carmelo Sorita Book Review: Betweener Talk: Decolonizing Knowledge Production, Pedagogy, and Praxis… Read More ›
Asian American Theological Forum 