Man-Hei Yip is Associate Professor of Systematic Theology at Wartburg Theological Seminary in Dubuque, Iowa. She has served as a Visiting Researcher at Boston University School of Theology and has worked for the Lutheran World Federation in Switzerland and Cambodia. Yip is the author of “Interrogating the Language of ‘Self’ and ‘Other’ in the History of Modern Christian Mission” and has contributed to various works on ecclesial practices, Lutheran catechism, and global Lutheranism. Her scholarship focuses on religion, language, immigration, and diaspora from a postcolonial perspective.
Silence as a Call to Vulnerability: Reflections from the Sixth World Conference on Faith and Order of the World Council of Churches
February/March 2026: Ecumenical Conversation and Christian Unity (Volume 26 Issue 1)
“and after the earthquake a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire and after the fire a sound of sheer silence.” (1 Kings 19:12) Introduction [1] The sound of sheer silence greeted me on my first morning in Egypt, a profound quiet that seemed to echo through the ages. Standing in […]