Preaching to Korean Immigrants by Rebecca Seungyoun Jeong is a valuable gem as a resource. The book deals with the theology and preaching that is common within Korean immigrant churches in the United States. Both subjects address the sensitive spiritual… Read More ›
(M) Book Review
Decolonial Futures: Intercultural and Interreligious Intelligence for Theological Education
The primary purpose of this book is clear: First, it deconstructs western theological education that identifies intellectual competence and Christianity as the norm; then, it reconstructs traditional terrain from intercultural and interreligious intelligence – defined as “a specific posture and… Read More ›
A Postcolonial Leadership: Asian Immigrant Christian Leadership and Its Challenges
In A Postcolonial Leadership, Hee An Choi proposes postcolonial leadership as a new leadership model for Asian immigrant leaders. Based on a critical analysis of the current situation in which Asian immigrants are never seen as leaders and their leadership… Read More ›
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 ›
Story and Song: A Postcolonial Interplay Between Christian Education and Worship
In her book, Story and Song, Hyeran Kim-Cragg, a notable postcolonial feminist theologian, unravels the discrepancy between Christian education and worship through the unfolding of her comprehensive knowledge of Western and non-Western Christianity. Representing the… Read More ›
Intersecting Realities: Race, Identity, and Culture in Spiritual-Moral Life of Young Asian Americans
In Intersecting Realities, Hak Joon Lee brings together much-needed essays around ten themes—God, parents, friendship and social networks, money, vocation, sex, gender, the myth of the model minority, racial identity, and community—written by five Asian American theologians. These themes aim… Read More ›
Wrestling with God in Context: Revisiting The Theology and Social Vision of Shoki Coe
This volume is a tribute to the life and legacy of a Taiwanese theologian, churchman, and public intellectual, Shoki Coe (1914-1988). Most of the contributors in this volume count themselves as his admirers who had never met Coe and a… Read More ›
Evangelism after Pluralism: The Ethics of Christian Witness
Bryan Stone, in Evangelism After Pluralism, presents the ethics of evangelism for this pluralistic context, which he avers is a corrective to the popular Christian imagination that has uncritically absorbed values and ideologies of the secular state. He contends that… Read More ›
World Christianity: A Historical Theological Introduction
Lalsangkima Pachuau, J.W. Beeson Professor of Christian Mission and Dean of Advanced Research Program at Asbury Theological Seminary, in his exciting book “World Christianity: A Historical and Theological Introduction,” examines the development and growth of world Christianity by tracing… Read More ›
Preaching with Cultural Intelligence
Preaching with Cultural Intelligence has made a positive impression by winning the ‘2018 Preaching Book of the Year’ from Preaching Magazine. The author, Matthew Kim, is the associate professor of preaching and ministry at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary as well as… Read More ›