Introduction Beginning with the public dialogue between Pope Leo XIV and President Donald Trump, this essay argues that contemporary warfare invites Christians to recover a richer theological vision of peace. Drawing upon Scripture, the Christian moral tradition, and voices from… Read More ›
In this essay, I want to take us on a journey of critical fabulation, a method coined by Saidiya Hartman as a way of imagining one’s route through voids, through the gaps of archives and memory, and attempts to say… Read More ›
Introduction In Indonesian universities, Henriette Marianne Katoppo (1943-2007) is famously celebrated as a novelist. But theology students and professors, weirdly uninterested in her novels, recognize her influence in Asian and global theological discourse as an “irruption within irruption” of Third… Read More ›
The history of Christianity in Asia intertwines with colonialism as Western missionaries are conceived as the main protagonists who worked painstakingly to spread the faith. This fact generates two issues for Christians living in today’s postcolonial context as they struggle… Read More ›
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 ›
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