In this episode of the Dialogues Podcast, David C. Chao interviews Nathan Samayo, PhD student at Princeton Theological Seminary. Nathan Samayo is pursuing a PhD in Religion and Society. David and Nathan discuss his current trip to Guam, where Nathan is originally from. They discuss his personal history and how it intersects with his current research interests.

Additional resources:
Kelly Brown Douglas’ Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God
https://orbisbooks.com/products/stand-your-ground

Asian Pacific American Religions Research Initiative (APARRI)
https://aparri.org/

Rev. Gail Song Bantum at Quest Church
https://www.thebantumspace.com/gailbantum

Dr. Brian Bantum
https://www.thebantumspace.com/brianbantum

Dr. Mayra Rivera
https://hds.harvard.edu/people/mayra-rivera-rivera

To Hell With Drowning (The Atlantic article about Guam, Militarism, and Climate Change)
https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2021/11/oceania-pacific-climate-change-stories/620570/

The America that Americans Forget (New York Times Article on the political status of Chamorro people in Guam and the current relocation efforts of U.S. military personnel from Okinawa to Guam)
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/07/magazine/guam-american-military.html

Prutehi Litekyan (social movement organizing against U.S. military infrastructure development in the village of Litekyan/Ritidian).
https://www.saveritidian.org/

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