Posted in Asian-Americanism, Culture on Jun 22nd, 2007 No Comments »
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 […]
Posted in Asian-Americanism, Culture, Family on Jun 6th, 2006 4 Comments »
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 […]
Posted in Asian-Americanism, Culture, Family on May 27th, 2006 6 Comments »
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 […]
