Until recently the issue of racism and discrimination was focused almost exclusively on the situation confronting African Americans. More recently the plight of Asian Americans has received more attention. This was brutally brought home with the massacre of 8 persons in a massage business in Georgia. Cathy Park Hong in her new book, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning, gives voice to the reality of anti-Asian prejudice in America. Hong, who is Korean American, shares her own story and experiences interwoven with the prejudice and violence Asians have experienced in America. The book is a worthy complement to the many stories being published about the experiences of African Americans.
"The church was the original multicultural project, with Jesus as its only point of identity. It was known, and for this reason seen as both attractive and dangerous, as a worship-based, spiritually renewed, multi-ethnic, poly-chrome, mutually supportive, outward-facing, culturally creative, chastity-celebrating, socially responsive fictive kinship group, gender-blind in leadership, generous to the poor and courageous in speaking up for the voiceless." Biblical scholar N.T. Wright quoted in April 21, 2021, Christian Century, P. 9. Also on the same page "The four top-ranking countries for quality of life--Norway, Denmark, Finland, and New Zealand are led by women."
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