Though I didn't know him well, I came to greatly appreciate Bishop Yap and his profound practicality. His book, "Doing Theology in a Pluralistic World" (Nashville: Methodist Book House, 1990) could well be a primer for anyone concerned about living effectively in a world of diversity. He was a scholar as well as a practitioner and spent at least a year as a visiting professor at Perkins School of Theology in Dallas. I was honored to meet him in Malaysia and to publish a review of his book. His insights seem all the more relevant today, and his promotion of them will be missed. As others have noted, his contribution to our common mission was substantial, and he joins that "great cloud of witnesses" from whom we all draw sustenance.
Thanks, Dharma, for letting us know of his completed life.
John Epps