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Favorite movies:

Amazing Grace, Curse of the Golden Flower, Salaam-e-Ishq, The Red Violin, Lord of the Rings trilogy, Star Wars trilogy, Indiana Jones trilogy, X-Men trilogy, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Men of Honor, The Sound of Music, The Three Amigos, A Walk to Remember, Anna & the King.

Favorite books (besides the Bible):

Lord of the Rings, A Severe Mercy, The Wheel of Time series, the Ender series, the Sherlock Holmes series, poetry by Pablo Neruda, anything by John Piper

Favorite quotes:

"AIG has assets over $1 trillion. … Has anybody ever had $1 trillion and still failed? OK, besides the New York Yankees."

Jay Leno, on the New York financial crisis

"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve."

Bilbo Baggins, "The Fellowship of the Ring"

"To travel thousands of miles is better than to read thousands of books."

an old Chinese saying

"The one who does not remember history is bound to live through it again."

George Santayana

"It just seems to me the word tolerance is bad because it just means putting up with it. I was raised in the spirit of magnanimity. That is a better word than tolerance. If you are magnanimous in your judgments on other people, there is a chance that I will recognise that you will help me in my struggle."

Archbishop of York, John Sentamu

"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because some day in life you will have been all of these."

George Washington Carver

"Churches are too often fellowships of moral believers rather than communities of forgiven sinners."

Duncan Forrester

Allen Yeh's Curriculum Vitae PDF (116KB)

Allen Yeh is a missiologist who specializes in Latin America and China. He also has other academic interests in history, classical music, homiletics, social justice, and Jonathan Edwards. He earned his B.A. from Yale, M.Div. from Gordon-Conwell, M.Th. from Edinburgh, and D.Phil. from Oxford. Despite this alphabet soup, he believes that experience is the greatest teacher of all (besides the Bible). As such, Allen has been to nearly 50 countries in every continent (except Australia), to study, do missions work, and experience the culture. As Mark Twain said in 1857, "Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime."