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• #DalitHistoryMonth: Part II

  By AATF Admin on May 30, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Caste conflict “is no mere orientalist fantasy.”1 This is important to note especially in light of dominant caste articulations that falsely argue that cases of caste-based discrimination and conflict are being “produced” by Dalits for consumption by curious and condescending… Read More ›

• #DalitHistoryMonth: Part I

  By AATF Admin on May 30, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  April was celebrated as #DalitHistoryMonth. An amazing team of Dalit women that included Thenmozhi Soundararajan, Christina Thomas Dhanaraj, Manisha Mashaal, Sanghapali Aruna Lohitakshi, and Vidya Karunakarn, among others, toured the United States and conducted teach-ins and workshops and led discussions… Read More ›

• Remembering Our Past for a Better Future: Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month

  By AATF Admin on May 25, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  **Note: The article originally appears at The Huffington Post. It is easy to forget your history. It is particularly easy to forget if your history is neither a part of the mainstream American historical narrative nor included in our history… Read More ›

• Contemplations from the Heart: Spiritual Reflections on Family, Community, and the Divine

  By AATF Admin on May 25, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  We live in a fast-paced world of complex challenges. While today, we are more technologically connected than ever before, paradoxically with this also come forms of disconnection—from others, ourselves, the earth, and God. Amidst seemingly endless choices and busy lives,… Read More ›

• A Commentary on “Fresh Off the Boat”

  By AATF Admin on May 25, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  For its first season, ABC’s Fresh Off the Boat, which has an Asian American family at the center of the story, made a lot of buzzes around pop cultural critics, both from professional pundits (e.g., a New York Times critic) and… Read More ›

• The Preacher as Liturgical Artist: Metaphor, Identity, and the Vicarious Humanity of Christ

  By AATF Admin on May 25, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Have you recently felt outdated in your preaching content and style at the 21st century pulpit? Have you felt the need to refresh your preaching practice in the era of image, sound, art, and creativity, not to mention the jaw-dropping… Read More ›

• Identity and Loyalty in the David Story: A Postcolonial Reading

  By AATF Admin on May 25, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  In line with his previous postcolonial reading of biblical nation narrative, Decolonizing Josiah: Toward a Postcolonial Reading of the Deuteronomistic History (2005), Uriah Kim re-reads the Davidic story of national establishment with postcolonial concerns. In this volume, Kim employs a… Read More ›

• “Against the Waves of Globalization” in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide

  By AATF Admin on May 25, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Introduction After the era of colonization, globalization became a powerful driving force implementing the West’s rationalistic and capitalist way of life in the third world countries. Now, the majority of the global population wears westernized clothes and makes use of… Read More ›

• A Dialogue between Matthew 20:1-16 (the Prodigal Employer) and Ku Kim’s My Hope: Part I

  By AATF Admin on May 25, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Introduction Once again, an Indonesian man with a white bandage on his ring-finger came to my office where I was volunteering as a labor-counselor at the Galilee Presbyterian church in Seoul, Korea, back in 2005. ‘No, please do not uncover…’… Read More ›

• Now Archives Available in PDF

  By AATF Admin on May 1, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  The AATF editorial team is pleased to announce that all articles and book reviews on the AATF website are available in PDF downloadable. Visit archives and enjoy the full benefit of it.   The AATF Editorial Team

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