A short and spontaneous post 📗

I kind of randomly found this thesis when doing some googling, and read through the whole thing. It is really fascinating to read, as it is done from a researcher’s perspective on a topic that is a lived experience for so many people in the circles which I am a part of.

Tried to find other things similar to it (maybe the works it references?) but in general this seems to be a very specific topic, titled as follows:

Multi-sited Faith: Chinese Canadian, Young Adult Evangelicals and the Negotiation of Ethno-Religious Identity in the Greater Toronto Area

Covers quite a wide scope, and yeah just very interesting, so thought I would share it here! It is almost a mini-book (261 pages of content) of sorts.

So you want to read it? Here it is: https://uwspace.uwaterloo.ca/bitstream/handle/10012/15833/Wall_Scott.pdf?isAllowed=y&sequence=1. Also comes from the University of Waterloo, which is pretty neat!

It also reminded me about C.A.M.P., the Canadian Asian Missional Podcast. You can check them out on many platforms (Spotify, Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, and PodBean), I also have a short blog entry here too about them!

Edit: turns out C.A.M.P. had an episode with the thesis author (Scott Wall), haha! Here is the Spotify link.

Finally, this just something that I am thinking about a bit more, given the church experiences I had growing up, when I was in Waterloo, and now when I am abroad. Interestingly enough, I also had the opportunity to attend a meetup of all the Chinese Christian churches in Switzerland two weeks ago (I did not know they existed up until that point), which provided another venue to compare and contrast my own experiences growing up, and now also this thesis. Granted, I don’t know how to employ (or even know about!) any sociological frameworks, but just another anecdotal experience that I can now think about.

Well yeah, if you do give it a read, hope you find it as interesting as I did! Perhaps if you come from that kind of background it will be more personally relevant as well.

See you around