The center of Christianity has shifted from the West to the Global South. There is more interest in World Christianity today than ever before. But have minoritized Christians in the U.S. been leap frogged (as Bishop Roy Sano once confided to me) in the process? Dr. Soojin Chung, Director of the Overseas Ministries Study Center at Princeton Theological Seminary has some thoughts about that. In this deep dive episode of the Pearl Dive podcast. I talk to Soojin about how the study of World Christianity and Ethnic Studies can actually come together and be fruitful partners for research and ministry.

Soojin also teaches in the Department of History and Ecumenics at the seminary. She convened the Princeton World Christianity Conference Gerald H. Anderson Lectures last month and is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Bulletin of Mission Research. — Tim Tseng

This interview was recorded on March 19, 2025.

This season of Pearl Dive was brought to you by the Asian American Christian History Institute (AACHI) at the Fuller Theological Seminary’s Asian American Center and with the support of the KT Foundation.

LINKS AND REFERENCES

* Soojin Chung, Adopting for God: The Mission to Change America through Transnational Adoption (NYU Press, 2021)

* Overseas Ministries Study Center

* International Bulletin of Mission Research

* Dana Robert

* Kosuke Koyama

* EATWOT | wikipedia

* Mercy Amba Oduyoye

* Lamin Sanneh

* Gerald Anderson

* Jehu J. Hanciles, Migration and the Making of Global Christianity (Eerdmans, 2021)

* Deanna Womack and Raimundo Berreto, eds., Alterity and the Evasion of Justice: Exploration of the “Other” in World Christianity (Fortress Press, 2023)

* Afe Adogame, Raimundo Berreto, and Wanderly Pereira da Rosa, eds. Migration and Public Discourse in World Christianity (Fortress Press, 2019).

*  Kirsteen Kim - ‘Racism Awareness in Mission: Touchstone or Cultural Blindspot?”, International Bulletin of Mission Research, 45(4), 376-386.(Original work published 2021)

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