Marginality by: Jung Young Lee is one of the most profound books I have read. Each page provides more information about the perspectives of people marginalized by society. Lee is able to take a word that has been used as a one-dimensional, negative term to describe a group of people and not only make it three-dimensional, but also establish a positive marginality for all. Based on the author's first-hand experiences of his life on the margins, it invites the reader to learn through a personal journey of the margins. It explains what the realities of people of color are and how they might be different with the refinement of the understanding, terminology, and practice of margin in the context of the current practice of centrality. Lee introduces a new theological foundation rooted in marginality. Through the Parable of the Dandelion, he exposes the struggle of the Asian-American experience while describing the historical situations that brought the first Japanese, Chinese, and Koreans to American shores. Through an intense amount of vulnerability and historical facts, Lee articulates the stories of many people who have not been heard. From the example of Christ to the healing of suffering through suffering, Lee challenges the reader to reimagine a world where the margins redefine the center. Throughout this book, centrality is defined according to the margins, in other words “without the center, there is no margin; just as there is no center without margins. They are mutually relative and coexisting. Centrality is also defined as the dominant, white, ecclesial force that holds power and oppresses those on the margins; “In the history of civilization, the center has attracted humanity more than anything else in the world, because the center has been understood... middle of paper... to see a man from the Middle East who had no home, no place to call his own, who brought love through suffering and freedom through death as the true Christ whom we worship. “For marginalized people, suffering is more meaningful than pleasure, and love is more fundamental than power. The marginalized have learned to find meaning in suffering and power in love, while the centralists want to eliminate pain from pleasure and find love in power.” Lee helped me delve deeper into the context of the culture and gender in particular. Hearing a marginalized man explain how he had to assimilate to feel part of the society he lived in revealed the very struggle and truth in the quote above “meaning is suffering.” . It also helps to see how, even at the center, men and women can have such a different context in which to consider their theology..