Download PDF: Cho, Issue 11 Intro Practical Matters is proud to publish Issue 11: Migrations and Religious Practices. Our hope was to bring together scholars and practitioners to critically reflect on the intersection of human migration, religion, and identity. As the
Download PDF: Spina, Across Boundaries and Borders Abstract The topic of this article is focused within the broader context of transnational religion and migration. The article examines how innovation and performance interact in the context of a North American
Download PDF: Carvahaes, We are all Immigrants Abstract We are all immigrants! Some of us are more recent immigrants than others. In this time of nation-states, we forget that our true country, our true home, is in heaven and we
Download PDF: Cuddeback-Gedeon, Nothing About Us Without Us Abstract As the number of Christian theologians engaging ethnographic research increases, there have been several scholarly conversations about how the power and privilege of the researcher impacts knowledge and relationships in fieldwork.
Download PDF: Hong, Cultivating Woori Abstract This article discusses the identity and spiritual formation of children and adolescents in the Korean immigrant community, particularly in the context of the Korean American immigrant church. Using the framework of Woori as a
Download PDF: Wymer, KneeDeep Preaching Abstract Homiletical white bullshit is any attempt by preachers, homiletical scholars, teachers of homiletics, and participants in preaching events to escape recognition and acknowledgement—on the part of ourselves and on the part of others—of the
Download PDF: Mingo, Making Lemonade with Substitute Sugar Abstract Using displacement data and oral histories that I began collecting after the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, this paper analyzes the experiences of families who made the small college town of
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Download PDF: Kalkun Kupari Vuola Coping With Loss Abstract In this article, we focus on the coping, healing, and commemorative aspects of religious rituals, discussing three annual religious feasts that also have significance as expressions of ethnic culture. They are
Download PDF: Park, Encountering Others Through Compassion Abstract The purpose of this article is to propose a pedagogy of compassion based on a reinterpretation of historical and contemporary understandings of compassion and on critical dialogues between three education philosophers
Download PDF: Joseph, Decentered Vision of Diaspora Space Abstract In this article, I examine the decentered vision of diaspora space that emerges from the encounters with difference present in theological ethnography, the migrant experience, and the pilgrim Church. I first
Download PDF: Kim-Cragg, Kim-Cragg, A Postcolonial Portrait of Migrants Abstract This article identifies migration as an urgent matter for practical theology. The author, locating herself as a Canadian migrant and a Christian practical theologian, invites readers to take the global
Download PDF: Womack, Medical Arts and Healing of Souls Abstract The story of tuberculosis care in Ottoman Syria (present day Syria and Lebanon) dates to the early twentieth-century medical work of American Presbyterian missionaries. This essay explores the history of
Download PDF: Reyes, Practical Theology as Knowledge of Origin and Migration Abstract In an exploration of immigration and faith, this essay argues for a practical theology that privileges narrative and storytelling. The essay responds to the political landscape in the
Download PDF: Estey, Evangelical Faith At Work Abstract Protestant Christian evangelical practice and theology provides resources for resistance to labor exploitation. Black evangelical union members in Moncure, North Carolina demonstrate through a nine month strike against their plywood plant how
Download PDF: RV Garrison, Alms By David J. Downs Waco: Baylor University Press, 2016. 340 pages. $59.95 The idea of atoning or redemptive almsgiving is that the act of giving alms or doing work for charity merits the forgiveness of sins.
Download PDF: Rieger, Class Matters Abstract Poverty is often addressed in religious discourse and by religious communities. Wealth is less frequently the subject of discussion. Almost completely absent are conversations on the relationship of wealth and poverty. What is missing here
Download PDF: Barush, The Root of the Route Abstract On a rainy day on an island in the Pacific Northwest, Phil Volker walked along the well-known, and well-trodden half-mile path in his own 10-acre backyard. The damp earth sprung beneath