Introduction The purpose of this article is to suggest Paulo Freire’s concept of conscientization as an active process of intervention within three cultures (i.e., Korean Confucian culture, multicultural Canadian culture, and the culture of the Korean Canadian immigrant churches) to… Read More ›
Long before the recent passing of the late British monarch that sparked a heated conversation on the afterlife of British imperialism, there have been multiple voices from the peripheries that demand us to recognize the deep entanglement between Western colonialism,… Read More ›
Jonathan Tran’s Asian Americans and the Spirit of Racial Capitalism is a welcome addition to the slowly growing body of literature on Asian American Christian Ethics (most notably, Kao and Ahn, Asian American Christian Ethics, 2015; Choi, Disciplined by Race,… Read More ›
Introduction The resource most to our society’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic is empathic relationships. The key to the Christian faith is the shaping of the relational self by establishing empathic relationships with God and others. Paradoxically, the coronavirus pandemic… Read More ›
Introduction Bearing witness to suffering is an empathic recognition of others’ pain with God’s compassion. The narratives of Julian of Norwich and Howard Thurman provide spiritual resources for the practice of empathic witnessing. Suffering is different from pain because suffering… Read More ›
In his masterful work Slavery in the Late Roman Word, AD 275-425, Kyle Harper’s main achievement consists in the presentation of the rich source material for Roman slavery in the “long fourth century (AD 275-425).” This contribution allows a new… Read More ›
Honor and shame as a pair of cultural lens were first introduced to America as something non-American through the research of the anthropologist Ruth Benedict in her book The Chrysanthmum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture, published in 1946,… Read More ›
Introduction[1] Forgiveness helps us to mend the unwanted brokenness in our lives. Many people feel burdened by guilt and grief over what they have done or failed to do, ultimately desiring forgiveness either from themselves or from others. As Anthony… Read More ›
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 ›
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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