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Book Reviews

 

After Method: Queer Grace, Conceptual Design, and the Possibility of Theology by Hanna Reichel, in the Center for Barth Studies, July 2024.

 

Public Writing

 

“5 Imperatives for Seminaries Under Authoritarianism,” in Sojourners, July 16, 2025.

 

“Zohran Mamdani Is Busting a Myth Many Christians Still Believe,” in Sojourners, July 16, 2025.

 

“Superman, the Immigrant, Has Always Reminded Me of Jesus,” in Sojourners, July 10, 2025.

 

“Can Kendrick Lamar Be a Prophet—and Be Rich?,” in Sojourners, June 10, 2025.

 

"How One Theologian is Composing a Soundtrack for His Faith and Activism," an interview with Josiah Daniels, for Sojourners, March 11, 2025.

 

“Attending to the Soils of Ministry: Lessons from Earthworms,” in Polaris Young Adult Network, July 3, 2024.

 

“The Curse of Land Possession and the Possibility of Dwelling,” in Space on Space Magazine, April 8, 2024.

 

“Jesus as the Gift of Creation: Land and the Scandal of the Incarnation,” in the Center for Barth Studies, January 18, 2024.

 

“Black Religion Thrives on Difference,” published as the culture lead for Sojourners Magazine, November 2023 Issue.

 

“Teach Me to Sing,” in Geez Magazine, Issue 70: Ancestors, Remembering for the Future, Fall 2023.

 

“Haunted by Home,” in BitterSweet Monthly, July 17, 2023.

 

“How Mestizaje Segregated the Philippines,” in Inheritance Magazine, May 30, 2023.

 

“Navigating American Evangelicalism as a Filipino Immigrant,” in Interfaith America Magazine, April 13, 2023.

 

“The Gospel Belongs to the ‘Heathen,’ Not White Saviors,” in Sojourners, October 13, 2022.

 

"Four Things to Know About Going to Seminary," in Sojourners, September 15, 2022.

 

“Our Names Become Bridges: How a Heritage of Naming Revealed Cultural Identity and Gospel Hope” in The Globe Issue published by Christianity Today, May 2022.

 

“Nine Bible Verses About Indigenous Peoples and Land Rights,” in Sojourners, April 28, 2022.

 

“My Country is Ravaged by Typhoons; the U.S. Military is Responsible,” in Sojourners, January 28, 2022.

 

“The White Lady: Ghost Stories and the Power of Colonial Storytelling,” in Inheritance Magazine, August 26, 2021. (Adapted into a stage play by K.L. Brisby, for Asian Story Theater and the San Diego Chinese Historical Museum, San Diego, CA, October 2023).

 

“My Lola is Decolonizing the Garden of Eden,” in Sojourners, July 28, 2021.

©2025 by Yanan Rahim Navarez Melo

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