Third Space focuses not only on Asian American history and ministry but it also has an academic side focusing on Asian American theology and biblical studies. Check out this page for our latest research and activities in the academic world.

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IBR Research Group
Asian American Biblical Interpretation: Evangelical Voices

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2024 Program

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2023 Program

We had another successful program in 2023 on the theme of "Family, Kinship and Community" at the SBL and IBR meetings in San Antonio (November). Papers were presented by Michelle Lee-Barnewall of  Biola, Daniel Lee of Fuller, Esther Cen of Seattle Pacific and Xenia Chan of Toronto School of Theology. Respondents were Dan Wu of Moore Theological College and Elizabeth Sung of Regent.

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2022 Program

Left to right: Max Lee, Soong-Chan Rah, Kirsten Oh, Gregory Lee, Jordan Ryan, May Young, Milton Eng

Our 2022 meeting in Denver went beautifully. Theme was "Asian American Theology and Evangelicalism." Papers were engaging, discussion enlightening and dinner afterwards sweet.

Jonathan Tran Reading Group

Since the publication of his new book in 2022, a reading group has formed around Jonathan Tran's Asian Americans and the Spirit of Racial Capitalism (Oxford U. Press) and Milton is a part of this group. Years in the making, this provocative scholarly work challenges the prevailing "orthodoxy" in academic and political circles that the only thing that matters is "race." To put it bluntly in my own words, Jonathan argues "Sorry, but it's a little bit more complicated than that."

• … this book reframes conversations about race and racism from racial identity to political economy. In framing matters in terms of political economy, [this volume] reaches back to a trusted mode of analysis that has been obscured by the prevailing antiracist orthodoxy. (p. xvii)

Jonathan is a Vietnamese American colleague and friend who teaches theology and ethics at Baylor University in the George W. Baines Chair of Religion. More news to follow.

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