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• Sermon: “Dare You Cry Out Loud”

  By AATF Admin on February 8, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  Text: Job 23: 1-9, 16-17 & Mark 10: 17-31 Title: Dare You Cry Out Loud In a moment of crisis, expected or unexpected, tell me if you’ve heard these phrases being used: “God has something better planned.” “God won’t give… Read More ›

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

  By AATF Admin on February 5, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  It seems that little has changed in Christian congregations in the United States since Martin Luther King, Jr., said that, “eleven o’clock on Sunday morning is the most segregated hour of Christian America.”1 This segregation is part of the aftermath… Read More ›

• Making Room at the Table: An Invitation to Multicultural Worship

  By AATF Admin on February 5, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  Making Room at the Table is a collection of essays sharing Christian theologians’ struggles with the 21st century’s emerging theological issue of multicultural worship. This publication is twelve essays written by current and former members of faculty at Princeton Theological… Read More ›

• Understanding Mental Illness and Violence in the Asian American Context

  By AATF Admin on February 5, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  Understanding Mental Illness and Violence In Blacksburg, Virginia, one college student at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University shot and killed 32 people and wounded 25 others in 2007. The shooting took place in two separate attacks, approximately two hours… Read More ›

• Poem: “Yearning”

  By AATF Admin on February 3, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  My Lord God,   My eyes will be filled with tears facing an endless bliss. My heart still dwells in the deep sorrow As I have survived my harsh days.   I take a close look to my past and… Read More ›

• Embracing the Other

  By AATF Admin on February 2, 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  Grace Ji-Sun Kim’s new book, Embracing the Other, prophetically suggests a theological reconstruction of the doctrine of God—what she calls “Sprit God”—from a perspective of Asian American feminist theologian. Her methodology for this theological reconstruction stands in continuity of (Western)… Read More ›

• The Armenian Genocide: Examining the Turkish and North American Response 100 Years Later

  By AATF Admin on January 31, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  2015 CE marks the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.  The term “genocide” was coined in 1940 by Raphael Lemkin “to describe the Turkish handling of Armenians and the Nazi treatment of the Jews.”1 It has been hotly disputed whether… Read More ›

• After Evangelicalism: The Sixties and the United Church of Canada

  By AATF Admin on January 31, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  After Evangelicalism is written by Canadian historian Kevin N. Flatt, an expert on secularization and religious change in the twentieth century, particularly in Canadian history. He is the Associate Professor of History at Redeemer University College in Ancaster, Ontario, where… Read More ›

• The Struggle for Peace and Reunification of the Korean Peninsula

  By AATF Admin on January 30, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  Introduction The 10th Assembly of the World Council of Churches (WCC) took place in Busan, Republic of Korea, from 30 October to 8 November 2013. I had the privilege to participate in the Global Ecumenical Theological Institute (GETI), which brought… Read More ›

• Article Response: “Constructing a Local Theology for the Second Generation Korean Ministry.”

  By AATF Admin on January 30, 2016 • ( 0 )

  Article Response to Minho Song, “Constructing a Local Theology for the Second Generation Korean Ministry.” Urban Mission Vol. 15:2 (December 1997): 23-34. Much like Asian-Americans who have been regarded as the leading exemplar among immigrants in the United States, Korean… Read More ›

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