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Here is my television interview for “Taking the Initiative“. The host of the show is Rev. William Kuntz and the show was taped March 18, 2013. This episode aired at 8:30 p.m. on April 23, 26, 2013. I talked about immigration, women’s issues, and my third book, Colonialism, Han, and the Transformative Spirit.
You can watch the clip below of the entire show.
[read also: Taking the Initiative]
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Grace Ji-Sun Kim is Associate Professor of Doctrinal Theology and the Director of the MATS program at Moravian Theological Seminary. She is the author of Colonialism, Han and the Transformative Spirit (Palgrave Pivot), The Holy Spirit, Chi, and the Other: A Model of Global and Intercultural Pneumatology (Palgrave Macmillan) and The Grace of Sophia: A Korean North American Women’s Christology (Pilgrim Press).
Grace Ji-Sun Kim 
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Your idea of “hybridity” is very interesting. As a full-breed Italian born in Canada of immigrant parents I grew up in two worlds, really. Canada is home, but my parents’ small town in Italy is HOME; I sense I belong there in more ways than I do in my own hometown of Toronto. I guess it’s because we moved a few times in T.O. but all my family in Italy lived in the same places for years, providing far more consistency and sense of place.
One big difference, however, is that the Italian community in Toronto has integrated into the rest of the city far more thoroughly than the Asian community in some ways, I think mostly because of the common European background shared by many Torontonians. At the same time, many Italians consciously keep to themselves, as I imagine many other cultures do.
One of my first girlfriends was Japanese, and Christian. She still attends a church that identifies itself as primarily Japanese, although their Pastor is a nice white lady.
I think that you are bang on with the idea of hybridity, especially in the way we understand Christ on a global scale, and as cultural walls become more transparent and permeable, so that we not only see how others live, but also absorb and share our ways of life and understanding; faith growth by Osmosis?
Thank you for your comment my friend. Hybridity is a difficult concept for some people in our society to embrace. It feels like a threat….but if we unpack it, it is very helpful not only in understanding ourselves but in understanding world-wide Christianity. Thanks for watching and commenting.
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Television interviews?? I didn’t know you were a celebrity!lol Great interview Grace. I found it pretty insightful and informative.