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Rev. Dr. Sivin Kit is presently the Director for Theology, Mission, and Justice (ad interim) at the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) in Geneva. He is a Malaysian theologian who is also an ordained pastor of the Lutheran Church in Malaysia. Prior to his appointment as head of the Department at LWF, he worked as a program executive for public theology and interreligious relations from 2019 to 2022. His responsibilities included addressing significant theological questions and making contributions in the areas of religion in the public sphere, interreligious collaboration, and peacebuilding.

Before this, he taught theology, ethics, homiletics, and religious studies at the Malaysia Theological Seminary, where he also served as the director of the Centre for Religion and Society. He has written articles on public theology, Christian-Muslim relations, ecumenism, and interreligious relations in Southeast and East Asia. His research interests also include contextual theology and the intersection of religion and media.

Kit holds a B.Th. and M.Th. from the South East Asia Graduate School of Theology, and he received his Ph.D. in religion, ethics, and society from the University of Agder in Norway.



Click to view my Personality Profile page

Born in October 1, 1972.

I’m married with one wife Long May Chin (whom I dated for 10 years!).

May Chin with favorite food
Gareth & Elysia with Lego
Ewan Cameron

We have 4 children — Gareth, Elysia, Ewan and Anja.

Rev.Sivin Kit

I come from a Christian family, baptized as an infant, affirmed in my teens, responded to the call to be a pastor at 21.

From April 2000 – January 2011 and January 2016 – June 2019 I served as the pastor of Bangsar Lutheran Church.

I’ve enjoyed coordinating emergent Malaysia for a number of years, and now it has evolved into Friends in Conversation and awaits its next emergence!). I was part of the founders for  RoH Malaysia (which is now taking a break) and was one of the initiators for The Micah Mandate.

Sivin on webcam

I completed my �Master of Theology (MTheol) with South East Asia Graduate School of Theology(SEAGST) in 2010 while wearing the multiple hats on my head 🙂 The title of the thesis is “A Trinitarian Public Theology: Malaysian Churches and Civil Society“.

If you really want to know, here’s six things weird about me … 😛

To dig deeper, check out the quizes I’ve done. Some are serious but all in good fun:

Eye

What Does Your Birth Date Mean?

What color do you see the world in?

How Creative Are You? (perhaps that’s why I’m also a Cultural Creative?)

Simpsonized Sivin


WHAT MAJOR IS RIGHT FOR YOU?

What Advanced Degree Should You Get?

Sivin at the Side

Which type of Blogger are you?

What Color Should Your Blog or Journal Be?

Sivin

What Matrix Persona Are You?

What Type of Wild Creature are You?

Which Peanuts Character are You?

Which �Heroes� TV Character are YOU?

Which of the X-Men Are You?

Which Action Hero Would You Be?

What Kind of Food Are You?

What�s Your Beer Personality?

altar

Which book of the Bible are you?

What type of Christian are you?

What is your model of the church?

What�s your eschatology?

What�s Your Theological Worldview?

Sivin preaching

10 thoughts on “About”

  1. Paul says:
    19 April, 2007 at 12:12 pm

    New look – so clean!! 🙂 Easy on my eyes …

  2. Sivin says:
    19 April, 2007 at 9:34 pm

    Paul – thanks for the pat on the back! The new look is evidence that I can change my mind on non-essentials … I used a black background since day one of this blog. My wife told me that she thought it was too glaring … 😛

  3. Paul says:
    20 April, 2007 at 4:34 am

    but this means you are both getting “old” 🙂 It’s the older people (like me) who need clear white backgrounds to read … 🙁

  4. ravi says:
    30 July, 2007 at 4:39 pm

    im born here. hindu. went to usa in 1983. and became a lutheran in 1991.. married now for 6yrs.. see my church website.. http://www.freewebs.com/faithsr … i helped set it up
    never knew there was a lutheran church here. i live in bukit damansara… just emailed my wife ur url. she will be very excited. she plays the organ at our church!!.. thanks. god bless .. praise god i found ur site!!

    love in christ
    ravi

  5. mr.nice guy says:
    21 August, 2007 at 11:11 am

    best church i’ve ever been to!

  6. Timo Reuhkala says:
    12 September, 2007 at 6:04 am

    Good new look. Congratulations. I like it. Links on the right with site preview or RSS feed are very cool. Thanks for Adding Asia Lutheran Communion there. However I can see the RSS feed is old. It does not update automatically??? Maybe something wrong?

    I like reading your blog and give it as an example if a good blog for my firends.

    Keep up the good job!

  7. Pingback: Sivin Kit’s Garden » About … update.
  8. fd says:
    4 March, 2008 at 6:15 pm

    hmmm…finally i found a humble person in this cyber world….
    Actually, i stayed in KL almost 2 yrs…but I couldnt find better place for me to serve Him…
    I am Indonesian Christian who is going crazy to see discrimination of this country….
    However, I have to obey Him to bless your nation every morning….
    God bless …
    Let’s share His love to one another without boundaries….

  9. Timothy Lee says:
    30 October, 2008 at 5:12 pm

    hi pastor, just drop by to say hi, may ur work be fruitful, great days!

  10. soonwei says:
    24 February, 2009 at 5:25 pm

    woah, another interesting page. it’s like a major get to know you session over here. Think the new template just alerted me to check about. I should be updating my about page too. very interesting 🙂

    especially the personality bit with multiple intelligence. wonder if my INFJ still holds true.

    it’s rockstar.

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