"And just like the white rice it cooked / The whiteness boiled inside of me / Pressurizing into a pristine product for others pleasure / I bathed in the waters of the pressure cooker thinking it would cleanse me."

(This is a paper presented by Professor Jordan Ryan for the 2022 IBR/SBL session on Asian American Biblical Interpretation: Evangelical Voices organized by Milton Eng, Max Lee, and Bo Lim.) Filipino Americans are the third largest Asian ethnic group in the United States. However, we are frequently invisible, forgotten, and…

Rather than preaching a “new identity in Christ” to replace or move people away from their lived experiences, we could ground it in the very material conditions of our communities and the shared spiritual formation in these ultimately created spaces. Doing so might allow “new identity in Christ” rhetoric to…