Easten Law
@easten.bsky.social
Associate Professor of World Christianity at Yonsei University in South Korea. I study lived theology, religious pluralism, and public life in the Sinophone world. Lost but content.
“De-globalization of the mind” is something to dwell upon longer.
I’m always waiting for Pentecost and never sure when it has happened.
Dr Alexander Chow recently delivered the Dr Timothy Lin Memorial Lecture at China Evangelical Seminary 🧑🏫 You can watch all nine lectures from his series alongside the roundtable discussion and Q&A session on their YouTube channel now 🎥👇 edin.ac/4w2YAIr
I don’t miss the United States of America… but I miss do miss the ideal of it… but perhaps I can carry that where ever I go and reimagine it elsewhere.. .
The weight of aging is heaviest when discerning how to carry their parents
In some ways, we’ve read this before. In other ways, we’re still finding language to capture our moment.
America’s Zombie Democracy
Its trappings remain, but authoritarianism and AI are hollowing out our humanity.
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I’m still a child. I like train rides no matter how mundane.
I was not expecting to stumble back into Eliade’s “Terror of History” so soon.
Every time I preach, I feel like it’s really just God challenging me individually.
Possibly unpopular question, but I am wondering it: is truly de-colonial thought even possible? And if so, are there puritanical impulses that are given power in the process?
To discern vocation from career, the ways in which they might overlap and diverge, is no small task. To do so while mindfully attending to the livelihood of those who depend on you is yet another level.
I have a greater sense of appreciation and awe for old people. Maybe it’s being over 40, a literal sense of closeness by way of time. I am closer to 80 than I am to 0 after all.
It’s actually kind of impressive how quickly so called law and order people are now reveling in lawless disorder.