Throughout this congress we have heard many moving testimonies. On Thursday the stories highlighted the presence of Jesus among the peoples of Asia, especially among the poor and marginalised. On Friday stories witnessed to Jesus amidst the great religions of Asia. Today testimonies have focused upon the cultures of Asia. In day-to-day life we do not neatly separate these three aspects. As the ...

Ontological distance is the dehumanization that emerges from uninterrogated coloniality between colonized subjects and oppressive systems. This distancing has occurred in histories of U.S. teachers both domestic-based abroad, especially Southeast Asia. In Steinbock-Pratt’s (2019) historiography on relationships early 1900s their Filipinx students, ontological was “The crux colonial relationship...