The Asian/Asian American Pacific Islander Church Studies Program Colloquy featuring Jonathan Tran, Ph.D., Associate Dean for Faculty and Associate Professor of Theology in Great Texts at Baylor University, will be held on Monday, March 24 at 1:00 p.m. in Bass Conference Center. The colloquy panel will include Dr. Russ Dalton, Dr. Lizette Acosta, & Dr. Tim Lee and will be based on a section from Dr. Tran’s book Asian Americans and the Spirit of Racial Capitalism. To receive a pdf of the section, email Dr. Lee at t.lee@tcu.edu.

Dr. Tran’s research focuses on the human life in language, and what that life reveals about God and God’s world. Lately, that research has taken him in the direction of thinking through race and racism, and his book Asian Americans and the Spirit of Racial Capitalism attempts to present racism as a theological problem, a political economic distortion of the divine economy, and a problem given to the usual redress, the church laying claim to God’s original revolution.