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The American Heritage of Racism: Can an Ecclesial Vision of Hope Be Found?

https://www.youtube.com/embed/JbYKenzIMKE Theologian Sarah Coakley talks with Vincent Lloyd and Jonathan Tran about racism in the United States, its connections to the church, and what the church can do about it.

Jonathan TranDecember 16, 2021

Asian Americans Philosophy of Language Podcast & Radio Interviews Politics Race Racial Capitalism

Will There Be Race in Heaven?

An wide-ranging interview with Jonathan Tran, focusing especially on race, but also touching on Vietnam, Michel Foucault, Stanley Cavell, and more. TRANSCRIPT FOR EPISODE 45 Ryan: My guest today is Jonathan Tran, Associate Professor of Philosophical Theology and George W. Baines Chair of Religion at…

Jonathan TranDecember 1, 2021

Church Podcast & Radio Interviews Race Spiritual life

New Way

A conversation with Sara Hayden of 1001 Worshiping Communities, exploring possibilities for a Christian faith adequate to the realities of the world.

Jonathan TranMay 27, 2021

Articles & Essays Asian Americans Race Theology

In God’s Economy, Racial Groups Are Not Competitors

This essay was adapted from a sermon preached at University Baptist Church in Waco, Texas, on May 2, 2021. It was originally published for Sojourners. I grew up in the decades after the United States fought in three wars in three subsequent decades with three Asian countries:…

Jonathan TranMay 20, 2021

Church Race

Living God’s Future Now

https://www.youtube.com/embed/aUjCtRMxWhw A conversation with Sam Wells, part of a series on theology and practice.

Jonathan TranMarch 11, 2021

Orientalism Race Talks & Lectures

The Legacy of Orientalism and Edward Said with Vivek Chibber & Bashir Abu-Manneh

The inimitable Vivek Chibber on the failings of the cultural turn in theory, and how the cultural turn parallels a diminution of political economic and material considerations. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPYX21BamPQ&t=2646s

Jonathan TranJanuary 25, 2021

Church College/University Race Talks & Lectures

Educating for Intellectual Resistance

https://www.youtube.com/embed/2O75SfFZqNQ Jonathan Tran interviews theologian Willie James Jennings about Jennings's book After Whiteness: An Education in Belonging. The conversation is hosted through The Liberating Arts.

Jonathan TranOctober 5, 2020

Articles & Essays Race

The Ends of Anti-Racist Protest

Originally written for Georgetown University's Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs. If one thinks, as I do, that racism functions as justification for dominative exploitation, then the meaning and implications of George Floyd’s brutal murder extend far beyond the public protests raging across…

Jonathan TranJune 10, 2020

Articles & Essays Asian Americans Race

Response to K. C. Choi’s Disciplined by Race

This essay was written for an online symposium on Choi's book through Syndicate. I am currently writing a book called Yellow Christianity: An Intervention on Christian Anti-Racist Discourse . Since I spend a lot of time there developing an account of Asian American Christianity, I spend…

Jonathan TranOctober 22, 2019

Articles & Essays Asian Americans Bible Race

Moral Innovation and Ambiguity in Asian American Christianity

An article in Theology Today. ABSTRACT“The Parable of the Shrewd Manager” in Luke 16 illuminates some important features of Asian American life. Like the parable’s central character, Asian Americans live under a set of cultural expectations where success is achieved by accepting terms set by…

Jonathan TranOctober 22, 2018

Race

The American Heritage of Racism: Can an Ecclesial Vision of Hope Be Found?

Will There Be Race in Heaven?

New Way

In God’s Economy, Racial Groups Are Not Competitors

Living God’s Future Now

The Legacy of Orientalism and Edward Said with Vivek Chibber & Bashir Abu-Manneh

Educating for Intellectual Resistance

The Ends of Anti-Racist Protest

Response to K. C. Choi’s Disciplined by Race

Moral Innovation and Ambiguity in Asian American Christianity

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