Make Advent Great Again

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#MakeAdventGreatAgain is an oasis of sanity and support for holiday resistance and renewal.

Sign up now and join over 4000 people who have already joined this online community!

This community is curated by: John Pavlovitz – Tripp Fuller – Mike Morrell

I am very excited to be part of the #MakeAdventGreatAgain online community!

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Here I Am: Book Review

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church, faith, Here I Am, Judson Press, Korean American Theology, Robert Cornwall, sermons, stories, theology, women

Here is a book review of Here I Am by Dr. Robert Cornwall. Check out the rest of his website, Ponderings on a Faith Journey for other interesting posts.

I am reposting Dr. Cornwall’s review:

HERE I AM: Faith Stories of Korean American Clergywomen.Edited by Grace Ji-Sun Kim. Foreword by Neal D. Presa. Valley Forge, PA: Judson Press, 2015. Xi + 162.

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

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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

Tamaqua Area Faith Fellowship Network

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I teach many wonderful students at Moravian Theological Seminary.  One student is James Cavellero.  He is an M.Div. student and a pastor at First United Methodist Church.

Pastor James is not only studying but involved in his own community.  

He writes, “TAFFN is an acronym standing for Tamaqua Area Faith Fellowship Network….. an organization that several of us here in Tamaqua have initiated. TAFFN is an ecumenical

Book Review

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My book review of Adam Kotsko’s book, The Politics of Redemption:  The Social Logic of Salvation”  (New York:  T & T Clark International, 2010) is published in Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology (July 2012): 333-334.

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“Through Hispanic Eyes”

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This is a repost of my blog on Patheos. It is entitled “Through Hispanic Eyes-Theological Education and White Privilege.”

‘Puerto Rico is a beautiful island with lakes, rivers, mountains, rainforests and of course picturesque beaches. I received a warm welcome at the airport in San Juan: 92 degrees with 74% humidity. Despite the hot, humid weather conditions, I went with eagerness to explore the culture, history, and tradition of Puerto Rico and reflect upon theological education in light of Hispanic theology.’ Link

In the Beginning was the Spirit

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I endorsed a wonderful new book, In the Beginning was the Spirit, by Diamuird O’Murchu MSC.  This is O’Murchu’s short blog about his new book.

“I am grateful to Grace Ji-Sun Kim for her support and endorsement of my new book, In the Beginning was the Spirit. In the Introduction I offer this resume:

This is a book about the Great Spirit, an outrageous attempt at a synthesis between first-nations spirituality, physics, biology, consciousness studies, theology, world religions and various social sciences (especially psychology, palaeontology and anthropology). It is a multi-disciplinary project, seeking truth through inter-disciplinary dialogue. 

South Africa

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book launch, capetown, christian, colonialism, earth, ecology, faith, grace ji-sun kim, han, sigurd bergmann, south africa

I am presenting a paper, “Colonialism, Ecology and Han” and responding to Dr. Sigurd Bergmann’s paper, “Whither does the wind blow?” at the Christian Faith and the Earth Conference in Capetown, S. Africa, August 6-10, 2012. There was a book launch for Dr. Ernst Conradie’s new book, Creation and Salvation: Vol 2  at the University of Western Cape, August 8, in which I wrote an essay, “Creative Word”.

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