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• Sermon: “Prosperity & Success”

  By AATF Admin on June 11, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  On Joshua 1:1-9 “Prosperity & Success”  Joseph Stowell, in the Moody Monthly Magazine, wrote, “What is success? In my book, one ingredient of success is meaningful time with my children. As a friend of mine observed, ‘I have yet to hear… Read More ›

• Preaching in Pictures: Using Images for Sermons that Connect

  By AATF Admin on June 11, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  According to Peter Jonker, preachers that do not avail themselves of the power of images are foolhardy in today’s culture. Preaching in Pictures1 comes out of the Reformed Christian tradition. Jonker advises using a controlling image as an alternative /… Read More ›

• The Virtues of Resilience: Virtue Ethics for Strangers in America

  By AATF Admin on June 11, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  After enjoying New Year’s holidays in New York in 2011, I took a flight heading to Atlanta. I sat on an aisle seat near a window; a middle-aged white woman sat on another aisle seat next to me and a… Read More ›

• Part II: Toward Postcolonial Liturgical Preaching: Drawing on the Pre-Columbian Caribbean Religion of the Taínos

  By AATF Admin on June 11, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  In the first half of this article, I introduced a proposal for a three movement Postcolonial Liturgical Preaching: (1) spaces of tension, (2) journeying imaginatively, and (3) experiences of connectedness. I illustrated with the Taíno ritual batey the first movement of… Read More ›

• Ethics: A Liberative Approach

  By AATF Admin on June 11, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  Leading religious scholars, who belong to and work with/for marginalized communities, collaborated together on producing an edited volume, Ethics: A Liberative Approach. Miguel A. De La Torre, the editor of this book, states the purpose of this book: exposing readers… Read More ›

• The Uniquely African Controversy: Studies on Donatist Christianity

  By AATF Admin on June 11, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  Anthony Dupont, Matthew Alan Gaumer, and Mathijs Lamberigts are the editors for the edited volume, The Uniquely African Controversy: Studies on Donatist Christianity. This edited volume provides a much needed resource in Donatist studies. David G. Hunter comments on how… Read More ›

• The Post-Umbrella Movement, Biblical Interpretation, and Unity of the Church

  By AATF Admin on June 11, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  The Umbrella Movement (originally coined as Umbrella Revolution)1 was a civil disobedience movement in Hong Kong (HK) from September 26 to December 15, 2014. The movement was a campaign initiated by students. It was a protest against the decision of… Read More ›

• A Hermeneutic on Dislocation as Experience: Creating a Borderland, Constructing a Hybrid Identity

  By AATF Admin on June 11, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  In this groundbreaking and boundary-crossing work, Park develops a spirituality of dislocation for Asian immigrant women in the United States.  Park situates her work within the fields of Christian Spirituality and postcolonial studies, and demonstrates how both lived experiences and… Read More ›

• Women, Ethnicity, and Asian Modernity: Ruth in Hong Kong?

  By AATF Admin on June 11, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  Introduction For almost a half-year, I lived in Hong Kong off a road that was lined with prostitutes each night. Three things always shocked me as I would walk home on my street: 1) There seemed to be more and… Read More ›

• Greetings from the President Kah-Jin Jeffrey Kuan (Claremont School of Theology)

  By AATF Admin on February 12, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  It is an honor for me, as President, to express Claremont School of Theology’s support for the Asian American Theological Forum, and to invite the AATF’s readers to learn more about our School.   Rooted on the Pacific Rim, Claremont School… Read More ›

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