Forefront Podcast

Romans 12:6-8

Ryan Phipps - Matthew 14:13-21

Jonathan Williams - John 9:1-7

Do you believe you are a mighty warrior?

It may seem like the rise in recent anti-Asian hate crime is new, but the choking weeds of anti-Asian bigotry and hypersexualization of AAPI women in America were planted generations ago. The mission of Pacific, Asian, and North American Asian Women in Theology and Ministry, or PANAAWTM, is to contribute to transnational feminist theological conversations and to constantly challenge the Christian church and the interpretations of scripture that have proliferated division and hatred. PANAAWTM board members K. Christine Pae and Lisa Asedillo utilize their staggering intellects to help decolonize status quo tradition, construct community, and preserve what is liberating. As Lila Watson said, "If you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come here because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.” ABOUT CHRISTINE Keun-Joo Christine Pae is Associate Professor and Chair of Religion at Denison University. As a Christian social ethicist and transnational feminist ethicist, her interests include feminist peacemaking and interfaith spiritual activism, transnationalized militarism with focus on intersection between gender and race, transnational feminist ethics, and Asian/Asian-American perspectives on post-colonial racial relations. ABOUT LISA Lisa is a PhD candidate in the Religion and Society area at Drew University with a concentration in Christian Social Ethics. She's currently finishing a dissertation on the Theology of Struggle and Ecumenical Women's Movement of the 70s-90s in the Philippines, teaching Global Ethics at Phillips Exeter Academy, and living at the Mutual Aid Society in the Catskills, a new utopian experiment with fellow artists, theologians and writers. For more information about or to support PANAAWTM, please visit the following links https://www.panaawtm.org/ https://www.youtube.com/c/PANAAWTM/featured https://www.panaawtm.org/support-us IG: @panaawtm Where to read Sarah Ngu's article, "How purity culture and anti-Asian racism intersect in some white evangelical circles" https://tinyurl.com/3en4ak8f