Archive for January 24th, 2005
Missiological Implications of Dr. David Yonggi Cho’s Theology
I’m not too sure how influential is Dr. Cho’s teaching nowadays in Malaysia (apart from being respected as the pastor of the largest church and a man of prayer) but this is a very sympathetic paper.
Endued with Power: The Pentecostal-Charismatic Renewal and the Asian Church in the Twenty-first Century
I suppose Rev. Dr. Hwa Yung (now Bishop! Hmm… my former theology teacher and occassional sage resource *grin*))is addressing a real area that lacks airplay in most Asian Theologies.
Consciousness & Change: Don’t tell me, show me.
Ahh …. needed nutrition for my activist side …
New Way of Being Church in Asia
Saw the book version at the Roman Catholic bookstore last week … didn’t know the author was a Malaysian.
Contextual Theology : A Reading Guide
Nice Bibliography …
The Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences (FABC)
Now, I must admit the Asian Roman Catholic Bishops are working hard and with much focus … we cannot ignore them.
Asian Journal of Pentecostal Studies
The Asian Pentecostals are labouring hard too … I wonder how the grassroot pentecostals and their pastors view this endeavour.
Thanks to aPoReTiC who’s had the chance of meeting Wendell Berry in person (cool! He’s also met Brian McLaren and had supper with him 
) I agree with him after reading this that Berry is indeed a prophetic voice (in the widest sense of the word) for the USA and beyond. where are the Malaysian prophetic voices? hello?
MANIFESTO : The Mad Farmer Liberation Front
Love the quick profit, the annual raise,
vacation with pay. Want more
of everything ready-made. Be afraid
to know your neighbors and to die.
And you will have a window in your head.
Not even your future will be a mystery
any more. Your mind will be punched in a card
and shut away in a little drawer.
When they want you to buy something
they will call you. When they want you
to die for profit they will let you know.
So, friends, every day do something
that won’t compute. Love the Lord.
Love the world. Work for nothing.
Take all that you have and be poor.
Love someone who does not deserve it.
Denounce the government and embrace
the flag. Hope to live in that free
republic for which it stands.
Give your approval to all you cannot
understand. Praise ignorance, for what man
has not encountered he has not destroyed.
Ask the questions that have no answers.
Invest in the millenium. Plant sequoias.
Say that your main crop is the forest
that you did not plant,
that you will not live to harvest.
Say that the leaves are harvested
when they have rotted into the mold.
Call that profit. Prophesy such returns.
Put your faith in the two inches of humus
that will build under the trees
every thousand years.
Listen to carrion – put your ear
close, and hear the faint chattering
of the songs that are to come.
Expect the end of the world. Laugh.
Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful
though you have considered all the facts.
So long as women do not go cheap
for power, please women more than men.
Ask yourself: Will this satisfy
a woman satisfied to bear a child?
Will this disturb the sleep
of a woman near to giving birth?
Go with your love to the fields.
Lie down in the shade. Rest your head
in her lap. Swear allegiance
to what is nighest your thoughts.
As soon as the generals and the politicos
can predict the motions of your mind,
lose it. Leave it as a sign
to mark the false trail, the way
you didn’t go. Be like the fox
who makes more tracks than necessary,
some in the wrong direction.
Practice resurrection.
Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front” from The Country of Marriage, copyright © 1973 by Wendell Berry, reprinted by permission of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc.