Asian American Center of Fuller Theological Seminary

This week on Centering, Dr. Kenneth Woo shares how his own Chinese American refugee heritage reshaped the way he reads Calvin, and how reframing Calvin as a refugee can open space for Asian American believers to see themselves not as perpetual guests in the Reformed tradition, but as genuine heirs and contributors.

Dr. Kenneth Woo is the P.C. Rossin Professor of Church History and Historical Theology at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary and author of John Calvin, Refugee Theologian: Introducing a Reformer in Exile.

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Today, the Philippines celebrates its 127th year of independence from Spain. Next month, the U.S. celebrates Freedom 250.

“Thinking about this as a transpacific Filipino American, I find myself unable to celebrate either one without grief, or without asking: whose story are we being asked to believe?”

Courtney Turner makes the case for talking to kids—especially multicultural kids—about race in our latest episode of Centering.

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Courtney Turner is the AAC Research Fellow of Formation and Mixed Race Studies, Chair of the Department of Global Studies and Assistant Professor of Intercultural and Global Studies at Southern Nazarene University, and a PhD student in Intercultural Studies at Fuller Seminary.

A new episode of Centering out now! Courtney Turner joins Yulee and Daniel to talk about mixed race, mixed identity, and belonging, and the feeling of betrayal in being forced to choose one identity over another.

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Courtney Turner is the AAC Research Fellow of Formation and Mixed Race Studies, Chair of the Department of Global Studies and Assistant Professor of Intercultural and Global Studies at Southern Nazarene University, and a PhD student in Intercultural Studies at Fuller Seminary.

"My parents were my first theological teachers. In their own real, raw, and imperfect way, they taught me how to offer my lived experiences in the world to find God at the table."

This week on the Centering Substack, Francesca De Las Alas reflects on storytelling as resistance, a means of witnessing God's advocacy for our collective dignity.

Read the full article: https://fulleraac.substack.com/p/stories-at-the-table