Charing's play ground of theology

 * This ordination paper has been read and spread among UCC in public. Thanks for all the comments that made this paper better than my imagination. Ordination Paper (for Chicago Metropolitan Association, of Illinois Conference, of United Church of Christ) Submitted in Dec 2020. Author: Charing Wei-Jen Chen My background and faith journey – an intersectional observation in ethnicity, class, language/culture, religion, and sexuality I was born and raised in a Buddhist family in Tainan, Taiwan. My parents are from two different ethnicities: Ho-Lok ( 河洛 ) and Hak-Ka ( 客家 ). Although these two ethnicities cover most of the population (72% Ho-Lok and 14% Hak-Ka) and share lots of things, they still have too many differences between them; even my father could not understand the language from my mother’s side at all. At their time, the cross-ethnicity marriage was not welcomed. I also noticed cultural conflicts and tension in visiting different families. Before policy of demanding ed...