The Gift of Dim Sum: Lightly Touching Your Heart
By Russell Jeung
Among other outstanding articles in this blog curated by the Center for Asian American Christianity, this piece by renowned scholar and activist Russell Jeung explores the theological significance of food as one of the languages of love resonant in many Asian cultural expressions. Connecting it to Jesus’s meal practices and Christian rituals of Holy Communion, Jeung suggests that we are wise to pay attention to the ways Jesus and we live to eat and eat to live.
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