Asian-Americanism
Cultural Salvation
David Park has an interesting post called “Terms of Salvation–Cultural or Not At All.” He quotes a couple of blogs, one of which says: I think what we’re seeing with AA’s is an unquestioning willingness to baptize wholesale white ownership of the Gospel even if it comes as an expense to their own identity and [...]
Sorry, Korea Is Not Biblical Israel
When I was in college, I went to a Korean-American meeting during Urbana 1991 (Intervarsity’s missions conference). The main speaker was a Rev. Kim whose stories and jokes all emphasized the special or “chosun” place Koreans have in world history. There were some allegorical allusions to Korea being the continuation of biblical Israel as a [...]
Child First, Fellow Believer Second, Husband Third, Father Fourth, Pastor Fifth…Asian, somewhere lower…
I was reading this article about Asian-American college students who are filling more of the Christian campus groups. It disturbed me because sadly what often dominates Asians and Asian-American thinking is that culture somehow takes first precedence over faith. We might not want to believe that it does, but it does. For those of us [...]
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