All Publications

Wen Pin’s research focuses on the intersection between biblical and practical theology with the mission to apply the whole counsel of Scripture to complex modern concerns, in order to support churches in fulfilling the Mission of God. In addition to the Bible, his areas of inquiry include disability, creation care, mental health, homiletics, pastoral theology, and more.

Click here to access e-copies of most of the below publications on Academia.edu.

Books

Like Mount Zion: Conceptual Metaphor and Critical Spatiality in the Songs of Ascents. Forschungen zur Religion und Literatur des Alten und Neuen Testaments, Volume 288. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2024.
Koinonia Groups: Nurturing Disability-Inclusive Small Groups in Your Church. Disability Ministry in Asia Series, Volume 3. Singapore: Graceworks. (Co-authored with Chew Ping Lin and Jesselyn Ng.)(forthcoming)
Creation Care and the Gospel. Asian Resources for Ministry, Volume 1. Singapore: Genesis, 2023. (eBook)(print copy)
Under the Wings of God: Stories of Hope from the Book of Ruth. Singapore: St Andrew’s Autism Centre, 2023.
Offering the Light: Essays in Honour of Philip Satterthwaite on the Occasion of His Retirement. Singapore: Graceworks, 2022. (Co-edited with Tze-Ming Quek and Kiem-Kiok Kwa.)
Enabling Communities: Bible Studies on Including People with Disabilities in Church (Student’s Version & Facilitator’s Version). Disability Ministry in Asia Series, Volume 2. Singapore: Graceworks. (Co-authored with Joanna Ong.)
Enabling Hearts: A Primer for Disability-Inclusive Churches. Disability Ministry in Asia Series, Volume 1. Singapore: Graceworks. (eBook)(print copy)
Call Me by Name: Stories of Identity, Faith, and Special Needs. Singapore: Graceworks. (Co-edited with Anne Wong-Png.)

Web-Applications

Hebrew for Busy People. hfbp.app An online web application that helps students learn Hebrew effectively. Developed in collaboration with kaphos.sg.

Booklets/Reports

Singapore Disability Ministry Landscape Survey 2023. Singapore: Koinonia Inclusion Network, 2023. (Supervising author)
Enabling Hearts Discussion Guide: A Guide for Ministry Team Discussion in Churches. Singapore: Koinonia Inclusion Network. (Co-authored with Janice Ho.)

Journal Articles

“Perspectives on Disability and Theology from Confucian Societies in Asia”. In Reformed World, 70, no. 1 (2022): 26-33.
“Disability Ministry in Singapore: Current State and Future Prospects”. In Reformed World, 70, no. 1 (2022): 55-61. (Co-authored with Jesselyn Ng and Janice Ho).
“‘But Who Do You Say I Am?’: Language and Identity in Singapore Disability Ministries.” Journal of Asian Evangelical Theology 26, no. 1 (2022): 25-46. (Co-authored with Ying-Jie Chen & Natalie Su-Yin Lam)
“Towards an Asia Disability Missiology: Reflections from Singapore.” Journal of Asian Mission 22, no. 1 and 2 (2021): 5-22. (Co-authored with Ching-Hui Ong)
“Ekklēsia and Civic Discourse in the Rhetoric of Ephesians.” Asia Journal of Theology 34, no. 2 (2020): 66-85.
“Farming for Meaning: Dynamic Extended Metaphor and Conceptual Blending in Psalm 129.” Asia Journal of Theology 34, no. 1 (2020): 1-22.
“Changing One’s Tune: Re-reading the Structure of Psalm 132 as Complex Antiphony.” Old Testament Essays 32, no. 1 (2019): 32-57.
“Form and Experience Dwelling in Unity: A Cognitive and Contextualised Approach to the Metaphors of Psalm 133.” Tyndale Bulletin 68, no. 2 (2017): 185-202.

Book Chapters and Opinion Pieces

“Creation Care and the Gospel in the New Testament”. Pages 17–28 in Creation Care and the Gospel. By Lam Kuo Yung, Leow Wen Pin, and Dennis Tan. Asian Resources for Ministry, Volume 1. Singapore: Genesis Books, 2023.
“Creation Care and the Gospel in the Old Testament”. Pages 1–16 in Creation Care and the Gospel. By Lam Kuo Yung, Leow Wen Pin, and Dennis Tan. Asian Resources for Ministry, Volume 1. Singapore: Genesis Books, 2023.
Response to “Fund-Raising: God will Provide?”. Pages 129–130 in Mentoring Stories, by David W. F. Wong. Singapore: Graceworks, 2023.
Response to “Sabbatical: Wilderness and Harvest”. Pages 40–41 in Mentoring Stories, by David W. F. Wong. Singapore: Graceworks, 2023.
“Shame, Dementia, and the Church”, Feature Article, ETHOS Institute for Public Christianity, April 3, 2023.
“Trust Under Siege: Psalm 125 as Theological Reflection”. Pages 16-40 in Offering the Light: Essays in Honour of Philip Satterthwaite on the Occasion of His Retirement, edited by Tze-Ming Quek, Kiem-Kiok Kwa, and Wen-Pin Leow. Singapore: Graceworks, 2022.
“7 Reasons to Include People with Disabilities in the Church”, Feature Article, ETHOS Institute for Public Christianity, July 4, 2022.
“Called By Name: Identity, Disability, Personhood”. Pages 23-28 in Pace Journal, Volume 2. Singapore: Pace Publishing, 2022.
“The Body Is One: Spiritual Growth, Disability, and 1 Corinthians 12”, Cateclesia Institute, March 24, 2022.
“‘Understanding a loss that has no resolution’: 5 ways to support parents of children with special needs”, Salt & Light, March 8, 2022.
“A Theological Introduction to Disability”. Pages 1-11 in Enabling Hearts: A Primer for Disability-Inclusive Churches, edited by Wen-Pin Leow. Disability Ministry in Asia 1. Singapore: Graceworks, 2021.
“A Roadmap for Disability Ministry”. Pages 12-22 in Enabling Hearts: A Primer for Disability-Inclusive Churches, edited by Wen-Pin Leow. Disability Ministry in Asia 1. Singapore: Graceworks, 2021.
“Disability and the Gospel”. Pages 165-170 in Enabling Hearts: A Primer for Disability-Inclusive Churches, edited by Wen-Pin Leow. Disability Ministry in Asia 1. Singapore: Graceworks, 2021.
“Changing our Minds: A Theological Introduction to Mental Illness”. Pages xi-xviii in Mental Health in the Gospel Community, edited by Jonathan Cho, Joanna Hor, Ng Zhi-Wen, Nicole Ong, Bernice Tan, Ronald J.J. Wong. Good News for Bruised Reeds 2. Singapore: Graceworks, 2019.
“The Body is One: Spiritual Growth and Disability in conversation with 1 Corinthians 12”. Pages 238-250 in An Owl’s Journey: Essays to Commemorate the 70^th Birthday of David W. F. Wong, edited by Dev Menon and Tze-Ming Quek. Singapore: Graceworks, 2019.
“Reflection on ‘The Gospel and Pain’”. Pages 60-62 in The Gospel Speaks! Past, Present, and Always, edited by Samuel Goh T.S. and Desmond Soh. Singapore: Singapore Bible College, 2017.

Book Reviews

Review of Interpreting Scripture across Cultures: An Introduction to Cross-Cultural Hermeneutics, by Will Brooks, Asia Journal of Theology, 37(1): 140–143.
Review of Hardness of Heart in Biblical Literature: Failure and Refusal, by Charles B. Puskas. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, 47, no. 5 (2023): 135.
Review of Networks of Metaphors in the Hebrew Bible, by Danilo Verdo and Antje Labahn (eds), Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, 47, no. 5 (2023): 116.
Review of Symbol, Service, and Song: The Levites of 1 Chronicles 10–29 in Rhetorical, Historical, and Theological Perspectives, by J. Nathan Clayton. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, 47, no. 5 (2023): 87.
Review of Prophetic Disability: Divine Sovereignty and Human Bodies in the Hebrew Bible, by Sarah J. Melcher, Journal of Disability and Religion, 47, no. 3 (2023): 484-485.
Review of Finding Jesus in the Storm: The Spiritual Lives of Christians with Mental Health Challenges, by John Swinton, Journal of Disability and Religion, 47, no. 3 (2023): 478-480.
Review of And Their Eyes Were Opened: A Theological Analysis of Blindness in the Hebrew Scriptures, by Ray McAllister, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, 46, no. 5 (2022): 155.
Review of Life and Death: Social Perspectives on Biblical Bodies, edited by Francesca Stavrakopoulou, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, 46, no. 5 (2022): 44-45.
Review of Ministry with the Forgotten: Dementia through a Spiritual Lens, by Kenneth L. Carder, Journal of Disability and Religion, 26, no. 3 (2022): 338-340.
Review of The Purity and Sanctuary of the Body in Second Temple Judaism, by Hannah K. Harrington. Journal of Disability and Religion, 26, no. 3 (2022): 340-341.
Review of Pastoral Care and Intellectual Disability: A Person-Centred Approach, by Anne Katherine Shurley, Journal of Disability and Religion, 26, no. 3 (2022): 355-356.
Review of Not Scattered or Confused: Rethinking the Urban World of the Hebrew Bible, by Mark McEntire. Asia Journal of Theology, 35, no. 2 (2021): 261-264.
Review of Critical Spatiality in Genesis 1–11, by Zhenshuai Jiang, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, 45, no. 5 (2021): 44-45.
Review of Disabilities and the Disabled in the Roman World, by Christian Laes, Journal of Disability and Religion, 25, no. 4 (2021): 455-456.
Review of Psalms 101–150, by Jason Byassee, Journal for the Evangelical Study of the Old Testament, 6, no. 1 (2020), ePub edition.
Review of The Psalter as Witness: Theology, Poetry, and Genre, edited by W. Dennis Tucker Jr., and W. H. Bellinger Jr., Journal for the Evangelical Study of the Old Testament, 6, no. 1 (2020), ePub edition.
Review of Crippled Grace: Disability, Virtue Ethics, and the Good Life, by Shane Clifton, International Journal of Public Theology, 13, no. 4 (2019): 517-518.
Review of Negotiating the Disabled Body: Representations of Disability in Early Christian Texts, by Anna Rebecca Solevåg, Journal of Disability and Religion, 23, no. 4 (2019): 410-411.
Review of Embodied Hope: A Theological Meditation on Pain and Suffering, by Kelly M. Kapic, Journal of Disability and Religion, 23, no. 4 (2019): 418-419.
Review of An American Conscience: The Reinhold Niebuhr Story, by Jeremy K. Sabella, Political Theology, 19, no. 2 (2018): 162-164.
Review of Gender-Play in the Hebrew Bible: The Ways the Bible Challenges Its Gender Norms, by Amy Kalmanofsky. International Journal of Public Theology 11, no. 2 (2017): 260-262.

Conference/Seminar Papers/Invited Talks

Invited Speaker, “Disability Ministry and Missions in Singapore: The Koinonia Inclusion Network”, Special Lecture given at the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 11 Dec, 2023.
Invited Respondent, “Exploring the Theological Dimensions of Mental Health in Post-Pandemic Britain”, Symposium, International Network for Theology, Mental Health, and Dementia. University of Aberdeen, 31 Oct – 3 Nov, 2023.
Invited Facilitator, Roundtable on Including People living with Dementia. SLEC CommCare Academy, 29 Sep, 2023.
Invited Speaker, “Inclusive Worship for People with Disabilities”. Workshop at SELAH Retreat, School of Church Music, Singapore Bible College, 21 Sep, 2023.
“Mental Health and the Church”. Invited Speaker for ETHOS Conversation 2023. Organised by ETHOS Institute for Public Christianity. Singapore, 2 May, 2023.
“A Theological Perspective on Dementia and Spirituality”. Invited Speaker for St Luke’s ElderCare CommCare Seminar 2022. Organised by St Luke’s Eldercare. Singapore, 29 Oct, 2022.
“Creation Care and the Gospel”. Keynote Address for the Inaugural Creation Care Conference. Organised by Creation Care SG. Singapore, 9–10 Sep, 2022.
Moderator for Keynote Address by Léon van Ommen on “Including People with Autism in Churches”. Singapore, 2 July, 2022.
Invited Respondent for presentation by David Teo on “Case Study: An Autism Church – The Story of the Chapel of Christ our Hope”, in the Autism, Theology, and the Church Conference: Identifying and Establishing Critical Frameworks for Interdisciplinary Research. Aberdeen, 14 Dec, 2021.
Invited Respondent for keynote address by John Swinton in “Including People with Dementia in Church: Theology and Praxis” Webinar. Singapore, 11 Dec, 2021.
“The Ekklēsia of God: Construction of Church and Identity in Ephesians”. Invited paper presented at the Continua Seminar, Singapore, 28 Sep, 2020.
“The Right Place at the Right Time: The Inclusion of Second Peter in Athanasius’ Canon in Festal Letter 39”. Paper presented at the Oxbridge Biblical Studies Conference, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 3 May, 2019.
“Embodied Value: A Disability Reading of 1 Corinthians 12”. Paper presented at the Asian Conference on Ethics, Religion & Philosophy, Tokyo, Japan, March 21-23, 2019.
“Ekklēsia in the Rhetoric of Ephesians”. Paper presented at the Oxford-Tel Aviv Programme in the Ancient World, Tel-Aviv, Israel, March 13-14, 2019.
“Better than Sons and Daughters: A Disability Reading of Acts 8:26-40”. Paper presented at the Asian Conference on Ethics, Religion & Philosophy, Kobe, Japan, March 22-24, 2018.
“Full Inclusion in a Pre-School Setting: A Singapore Case Study”. Paper presented at the Asian Conference on Education and International Development, Kobe, Japan, March 26-28, 2018.
“A Cognitive Reading of Psalm 133.” Paper presented at the University of Aberdeen Biblical Studies Conference, Aberdeen, U.K., 22-24 May, 2017.
“National Identity and the Story of Jewish Exile: A Narrative Reading of the Psalms of Ascents”. Paper presented at the Asian Conference on Ethics, Religion & Philosophy, Kobe, Japan, March 22-25, 2017.
“Pedagogical and Policy Perspectives on the Campus Tsunami”. Paper presented at the Asian Conference on Education, Osaka, Japan, October 24-28, 2012.
“Pedagogical Perspectives for Mentoring Youths in Community Service”. Paper presented at the Character & Citizenship Education Conference 2011, at the National Institute of Education, Singapore, 8-9 November, 2011.
“Lessons from Youth-Led Grant Making”. Paper presented at the Character & Citizenship Education Conference 2011, at the National Institute of Education, Singapore, 8-9 November, 2011.
“The Use of Wikis in Teaching Research”. Paper presented at the International Science Education Conference 2009, at the National Institute of Education, Singapore, 24-26 November, 2009.