Frank M. Yamada

Frank M. Yamada is director of the Center for Asian American Ministry and associate professor of Hebrew Bible at McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago.

Articles by Frank M. Yamada

Books

Dynamics of Faith

Paul Tillich

The Cross in Our Context: Jesus and the Suffering World

Douglas John Hall

Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion

Sara Miles

Kneeling in Bethlehem

Ann Weems

Kneeling in Jerusalem

Ann Weems

Thoughts Matter: The Practice of the Spiritual Life

Mary Margaret Funk, O.S.B.

Reaching Out: The Three Movements of the Spiritual Life

Henri J. M. Nouwen

Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake-Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia

Dennis Covington

The Heart of Christianity: Rediscovering a Life of Faith

Marcus J. Borg

Beyond Doubt: Faith-Building Devotions on Questions Christians Ask

Cornelius Plantinga Jr.

Selected Poems

Denise Levertov

Thirst

Mary Oliver

Wishful Thinking: A Seeker's ABC

Frederick Buechner

Books to start with

May 05, 2009 reviewed by Harvey Cox, Paul E. Hoffman, Nadia Bolz-Weber, Melinda B. Hinners, Paula Huston, Debra Rienstra, Sara Miles, Patricia Conley, Peter W. Marty, Harvey Cox0 and Harvey Cox1
What book would you recommend to someone eager to learn more about Christianity, someone who is just coming alive to the faith and to the power of the community of faith—the church—and who is full of questions about these matters?
Living by the Word

An embodied ideal

Jeremiah 31:7-14; John 1:(1-9), 10-18

Dec 30, 2008 by Frank M. Yamada

Whether we choose to believe it or not, we human beings are embodied creatures. There have been many times throughout the history of philosophy and religion when great thinkers have tried to minimize or deny the physicality of human existence. Simple phrases such as “mind over matter” and biblical passages such as 1 Corinthians 9:27, “but I punish my body and enslave it,” have contributed to the misleading belief that we are at our best as human beings when some spiritual core that is separate from our physical nature governs our lives.

Living by the Word

In the waters

Genesis 1:1-5, Mark 1:4-11

Dec 30, 2008 by Frank M. Yamada

“I am haunted by waters.” These are the last words of Norman Maclean’s novella A River Runs Through It. Waters haunt all of us who profess the Christian faith. The human imagination is consumed with images of water, and rightly so. Our bodies are made up of water. If we fail to drink, or if we are prevented from drinking, we will expire.