Let the Holy Spirit Guide How We Talk about Race

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Canada, Chinese Exclusion Act, christianity, Donald Trump, Holy Spirit, immigrant, model minority myth, race, racism, US Catholic Magazine

This is my latest article “Let the Holy Spirit Guide How We Talk about Race” for US Catholic Magazine.

My article appears in the October 2017 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 82, No. 10, pages 25–26).

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Introducing Christianity: Blog Post by Liam Miller

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books, christianity, Eerdmans, Embracing the Other, Liam Miller, Tripp Fuller

I am reposting a blog, “Introducing Christianity” by Liam Miller about his selection of 6 books to read and why.

Thanks for including my book, Embracing the Other on your list. I appreciate it very much.

Visit his blog to read other interesting posts and watch his videos. Watch for Liam’s interview of me later this month!

Hybridity, Postcolonialism, and Asian American Women: Feminist Theology

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Asian American women, christianity, Embracing the Other, feminist theology, hybridity, postcolonialism

My new article, “Hybridity, Postcolonialism, and Asian American Women” is now published in the May 2016 issue of the journal Feminist Theology. 

Below is the beginning excerpt of the Article.

Feminist Imagining with Christian Doctrine

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Christian Doctrines for Global Gender Justice, christianity, Feminist Studies in Religion, feminist theology, Jenny Daggers, palgrave macmillan

This is my latest co-written piece for Feminist Studies in Religion.

It is about our latest co-edited book, Christian Doctrines for Global Gender Justice. 

Chris Hedges: The Suicide of the Liberal Church

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Chris Hedges, christianity, church, seminary, Truthdig, Union Theological Seminary

Seminarians gather outside the chapel on the grounds of The General Theological Seminary, after morning prayers, Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2014, in New York. More than two-thirds of the faculty at the seminary, one of the nation’s oldest, most venerable religious institutions that trains ministers of America’s Episcopal Church, say they were fired earlier this week after going on strike to protest their dean’s leadership. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

This is an interesting article by Chris Hedges for truthdig. I am reposting it here with the author’s permission.

 

Paul Tillich wrote that all institutions, including the church, are inherently demonic.Reinhold Niebuhr asserted that no institution could ever achieve the morality of the individual. Institutions, he

She Lives!: Sophia Wisdom Works in the World

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christianity, feminist theology, Jann Aldredge Clanton, Sophia, the grace of sophia

Congratulations to my friend the Reverend Dr. Jann Aldredge-Clanton on her new book, She Lives: Sophia Wisdom Works in the World.

The book is an exciting new book where Aldredge-Clanton features 40 theologians and ministers who work and write on Sophia. Some of the featured writers are Mary E. Hunt, Monica A. Coleman, Chung Hyung Kyung, Gail Anderson Ricciuti, Mary Ann Beavis, Virginia Ramey Mollenkott and myself.

Reflection on Society of Race, Ethnicity and Religion, by Susan Shields

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chicago, children, christianity, conference, divine, faith, Lenape and Dine Nations, Native Ancestors, race, Society of Race Ethnicity and Religion, SRER, Susan Shields

This is a wonderful reflection by my student Susan Shields.  She attended the “Society of Race, Ethnicity and Religion” in Chicago and had a terrific experience.  Here is her story.

Have you ever watched children playing outside? I watched a small group of children playing in a yard recently. They were free to laugh, run and play and fully enjoyed the experience which brought joy to their Spirits and mine. Soon after this I had quite a different experience at Midway airport. Hundreds of people stood in lines delineated by barriers depicting a

Easter Morning

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christianity, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Easter, Easter Bunny, grace ji-sun kim, Holy Day, Jesus, Keep Hope Alive, poor, resurrection, rev. jesse jackson, Santa Claus, status quo

This morning, I was a guest on Rev. Jesse Jackson’s radio show, “Keep Hope Alive” produced by Santita Jackson.  I was one of six guests (along with Drs. Peter Heltzel & Martha Simmons) for the two hour show.  Rev. Jackson posed the simple question to all of the guests, “Who is Jesus?”  The conversation that followed was lively, challenging and provocative.

Rev. Jackson reminded us that we have commercialized Easter and Christmas with the cute little Easter Bunny and

Anselm Min’s Review of “The Holy Spirit, Chi, and the Other”

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Anselm Min, book review, christianity, grace ji-sun kim, Holy Spirit, Journal of American Academy of Religion, pneumatology, Spirit-Chi, the holy spirit, The Holy Spirit Chi and the Other, world religions

My second book, The Holy Spirit, Chi and the Other has been reviewed by Dr. Anselm Min in the Journal of American Academy of Religion (December 2012).  Please click here to read the review.

[read also:  Amos Yong’s review]

Waiting on the Messiah and Presidential Expectations: A Study of Luke

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baptism, bible, christianity, David A Sanchez, god, Huff Post Religion, luke, Messiah, New Testament, Obama's Inauguration, religion, scripture

This is a repost of a piece from Huff Post Religion written by my friend Dr. David A. Sanchez (January 9, 2012).

It is an odd juxtaposition: Dec. 21, 2012 and Jan. 21, 2013. The former date representing the “so-called” Mayan apocalypse, where the usual suspects prepared for