“Last Night I Dreamed of Peace”: Letters to Women Who Hold Up the Moon
Asian and Asian American Women in Theology and Religion, 2020
This chapter presents three letters by three Asian women scholars—Vietnamese, Indonesian, and Kor... more This chapter presents three letters by three Asian women scholars—Vietnamese, Indonesian, and Korean—written to the intellectual and spiritual “sisters-mothers-aunties” who have influenced, empowered, motivated, and challenged how they live, move, and have being as academics, educators, ministers, and “artivists” in Asian transpacific America. Juxtaposed against the decisive print typically found in academic prose, each metaphoric cursive in these correspondences reveal the vitalities and vulnerabilities of identity and vocation, of belonging and estrangement, of timid wonderment and brazen path-blazing, of grateful remembrances and outrageous future-projections, as each letter-writer picks up her pen, closes her eyes, and dreams of peaceable worlds in which they can flourish.
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eschatological hope about suffering and hope as good news. In addition, this article offers a practical application of the trauma-aware preaching approach in sermons during Lent, Triduum, and Easter.