Articles and Essays

Journal Articles

“Desmond Tutu’s Spirituality of Protest,” Spiritus: A Journal of Christian Spirituality 24.1 (2024), 120-137.

“From Service to Solidarity: On the (Im)Possibilities of Liberative Service-Learning,” Religion & Education 51.1-2(2024), 101–119.

“‘Hope is a Discipline’: Practicing Moral Imagination in Transformative Justice,” Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics 43.1 (2023): 129-147.

“Reflections on the Field: Teaching Religion and Upholding Academic Freedom,” with multiple authors, Journal of Religious Ethics 51.2 (2023), 343-373.

“The Power of Hope in the Work of Justice: Christian Ethics after Despair.” Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics 40.1 (2020), 39-57.

“New Directions in International Justice,” Journal of Law and Religion 29.1 (2014), 197-205.

“A Paradoxical Theology of Biology: Desmond Tutu’s Social Ethics in Light of His Sermon at Southwark Cathedral,” Theology and Sexuality 19.1 (2013), 89-97.

“The Embrace of Justice: The Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Miroslav Volf, and the Ethics of Reconciliation,” Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics 33.2 (2013), 111-129.

“The Hybridized Public Sphere: Asian American Christian Ethics, Social Justice, and Public Discourse,” co-authored with Keun-joo Christine Pae, Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics 32.1 (2012): 93-114.

“Nonviolent Law? Linking Nonviolent Social Change and Truth and Reconciliation Commissions,” West Virginia Law Review 114.3 (2012), 969-1005.

“When the State is Evil: Biblical Civil (Dis)Obedience in South Africa,” co-authored with Joel A. Nichols, St. John’s Law Review 85.2 (2011): 593-625.

Contributions to Books and Encyclopedias

“Building Peace in a Violent Nation: A Kingian Response to the Interconnected Violence of Racism, Materialism, and Militarism,” in The Business of War: Theological and Ethical Reflections on the Military-Industrial Complex (Eugene: Cascade Books, 2020), 179-192.

“Hoe Avenue Peace Meeting,” St. James Encyclopedia of Hip Hop Culture. (Farmington Hills, MI: Gale, a Cengage Company, 2018): 210-211.

“‘The Gods Will Not Save You’: On Teaching Ethics with The Wire,” in The Wire in the College Classroom: Pedagogical Approaches in the Humanities, eds. Karen Dillon and Naomi Crummey (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2015), 127-42.

“Reading Differently,” in Reading Theologically, ed. Eric D. Barreto (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2014), 95-108.

“Civil Law and Civil Disobedience: The Early Church and the Law,” co-authored with Joel A. Nichols, in Law and the Bible: Justice, Mercy, and Legal Institutions, eds. Robert F. Cochran Jr. and David Van Drunen (Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2013), 183-207.

Online Publications

“The Business of War: Theological and Ethical Reflections on the Military Industrial Complex,” Canopy Forum: On the Interactions of Law and Religion, February 9, 2022.
“Transformative Justice is Resistance to the Military Industrial Complex,” Political Theology Network, February 18, 2021.
“Introduction,” Symposium on Ki Joo (KC) Choi’s Disciplined by Race: Theological Ethics and the Problem of Asian American Identity, Syndicate, September 12, 2019.
“Asian American Ethics and Identity,” Marginalia Review of Books, January 18, 2019. Reviewing Asian American Christian Ethics: Voices, Methods, Issues, edited by Grace Y. Kao and Ilsup Ahn.

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