Tasha Jun

Mar 19, 2024 | incourage.me | Tasha Jun |Anna Rendell |Becky Keife |Dawn Camp

This week, I started reading, The Hidden Life of Trees, by Peter Wohlleben, and it’s safe to say that my mind is blown, my imagination re-ignited, and my hope in God’s good work in the world has been buoyed. In his book, Wohlleben writes that trees not only communicate, they create community.

Jul 18, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Esau McCaulley |Kaitlyn Schiess |Beth Kempton |Tasha Jun

Sandra L. Glahn. IVP Academic, $24 trade paper (208p) ISBN 978-1-5140-0592-7In this fine-grained analysis of the gospel’s view on women’s religious roles, Glahn (Vindicating the Vixens), a professor of media arts and worship at the Dallas Theological Seminary, meticulously dissects a passage in which the apostle Paul seems to imply that women should be “saved through childbearing” rather than seek to provide spiritual instruction.

May 30, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Kaitlyn Schiess |Beth Kempton |Tasha Jun |Daniel Cox

Esau McCaulley. Convergent, $27 (240p) ISBN 978-0-593-24108-0McCaulley (Reading While Black), an associate professor of the New Testament at Wheaton College, explores racism, poverty, and faith in his searing memoir. McCaulley grew up in Huntsville, Ala., with a mother who was fundamentally rendered a single parent after his father became addicted to drugs.

May 8, 2023 | indymaven.com | Tasha Jun

As a girl, I watched her stir, spoon, and slurp. When I was young, I often requested two simple Korean soups: tteokguk filled with chewy rice cakes (my favorite) and muguk filled with sweet radishes. I was reluctant about most of the other dishes, especially the seaweed soup that resembled a bowl of the ocean, with wet rectangles of seaweed that stuck to my spoon and tongue the way it wrapped around my legs in the ocean.

Apr 27, 2023 | barnesandnoble.com | Tasha Jun

English1496459571“This mesmerizes.” —Publishers Weekly starred review“I’ve always felt unfit as a Korean but somehow too Korean everywhere else.”Tasha Jun has always been caught between worlds: American and Korean, faith and doubt, family devotion and fierce independence.