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Finding Joy Through Obedience in the Lord
05/06/16 
Eyoung Min
Jesus replied, "Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them. Anyone who does not love me will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me." -...
The Task of Korean Church for Peace: Seeking Ecumenical Social Ethics in the Era of Globalization
07/10/15 Sung Bihn Yim
이글은 지난 3월16일 프린스턴 신학대학원 도서관에서 이상현 박사 연례 신학강좌(Dr. Sang Hyun Lee's Lectureship)에서 행한 강의 원문입니다. I.. Element that threaten the peace: Globalization and militarization, &nb...
Christian Reflections on the Problem of Evil
07/10/15 Isaac Kim
The Bible begins with God's good and orderly creation, formed from His Word and Spirit. It ends with the promise of a new heaven and a new earth, one in which all our tears will be wiped away in the present of our Lord. In between, suf...
Mai's Testimony
07/07/15 Mythyl Go
First of all, I want to thank God for this opportunity to share once again His transforming power in my life. As I continue to have fellowship with Him, my life was truly bless by his guidance through His words in the Bible. Looking back at my childhood ye...
Hope and Memory
04/02/15 Steven Cavallo
In 2007 I began research of the issue of Comfort Women and spent time with these victims who were forced into sexual slavery during WWII. I have traveled both in Korea and the United States with these women, we have eaten together, protested together and spoke side by side at ...
Faith through Marriage
04/02/15 Virgilio Legaspi
Throughout my life, from what I could remember, I never knew what it truly meant to have a personal relationship with God until I met my wife. Growing up, I always had this thought that it was always enough to just go to church every Sunday with my parents and that fulfilled m...
A Vision for Presbyteries
04/02/15 Marianne O. Rhebergen
Introduction In 1987, at ceremonies dedicating the new PC(USA) denominational headquarters in Louisville, biblical scholar and theologian Walter Brueggemann challenged those assembled with a vision of the late twentieth century church in exile, living in the midst of a hostil...
Life in Grace
04/02/15 김진수
I will talk about my personal story. This is not the story of success. This is not the story how to succeed, this is the story how to lose well.The difference between successful people and non-successfulpeople, is not successful people always succeed and unsuccessful people do...
A Trinitarian Prayer for the World
01/19/15 Jane Dempsey Douglass
God, our creator, we give you thanks for the planet you have entrusted to us, so breathtakingly beautiful and so astonishingly complex in the ways the lands and each of the creatures depends on one another for health and vitality. At this harvest time, we marvel at the rich co...
My Road to Chaplaincy: CPE, Ordination, and Ministry
01/19/15 Eun Joo Kim
Sometimes, God takes you on a path and journey you had never expected nor planned. CPE, Clinical Pastoral Education(training to be a chaplain), was not something I was interested in nor cared about while I was in seminary. I vaguely recall that a few of my classmates took a su...
Striving for Coexistence
11/19/14 Yubin Choi
Naturally, I cannot help but solely think about my benefits, needs and wants. I am, to an extent, a selfish egoist who desires only the best for my future. I often muse about helping others occasionally, but the thought eventually evaporates after a matter of time. What good i...
Members of One Body: Fundamentalism and Ecclesial Faithfulness
11/19/14 Albert Lee
Imagine a friend were to ask you what he needed to eat in order to have health. One way you could answer his question is by describing the various essential nutrients that you obtain through a healthy diet: an alphabet of vitamins, various minerals, fats, proteins, and carbohy...
Aesthesis and Ascesis:
11/04/14 James McCullough
A Review Essay and Reflection on How the Arts can Facilitate Spiritual Formation Do you still not perceive or understand? Are your hearts hardened? Do you have eyes, and fail to see? Do you have ears, and fail to hear? (Mark 8:17-18) God in Jesus Christ calls and enable...
Evangelism in the Postmodern Context: Multicultural Revitalization in the Mainline Church
11/04/14 김에스더
This is the part of the lecture by Rev. Esther Kim in the Evangelism seminar sponsored by the School of Christian Vocation and Mission of the Princeton For the past 35 years, I have been married to a pastor of a Korean Presbyterian church affiliated with KPCA. Tha...
Lessons on Spiritual Formation from the Lives of the Patriarchs
11/03/14 David Larson
The lives of the patriarchs provide fascinating material for the study of spiritual formation. In the Old Testament, God is frequently identified as the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (e.g. Exodus 3:6). The process of spiritual formation in the lives of each of these patriar...
Christian Meditation: Renewing Ancient Practices
11/03/14 Jack Lohr
Many people today claim to be "spiritual but not religious"--as many as 30% in one survey. The Millennial generation (born 1983-2004) seems to have little interest in "Organized Religion." But the Christian church has a powerful inheritance of spiritual practice that could hel...
Thoughts on Expressing Faith through Art.
11/03/14 Gene Kim
I'm not often asked to speak about faith, but that's probably because I'm an artist working in the feature animation industry. I was an intern at Pixar Animation Studios while the studio was transitioning between Up and Toy Story 3. I currently work at Blue Sky Studios (Ice Ag...
On the Shore
11/19/14 Rebekah Keumha Kim
“Welcome to Harvard, class of 2015, in the name of our Lord! And congratulations on your achievements thus far. It seems like your sleepless nights and all your other efforts have been paid off. What do you guys expect from the upcoming four years you w...
A musician's testimony of a North Korean experiance
10/28/14 Soo Bae
I know some are wondering what goes on inside performers' minds right before walking out on stage. Performing can be a total nightmare or a total joy as some of you know already. One time I remember I had to give a recital at Juilliard and that day nothing seemed to have gone ...
PURPOSE-DRIVEN AND VALUE-GUIDED LIFE OF AHN MARIA:
10/28/14 Angella Son
"No longer shall your name be no-name, but your name shall be Maria."I am very honored to have been asked by Reverend Chang Kil Kim, who is the Pastor Emeritus of New Jersey Presbyterian Church and the President of the Protestant Abbey Mission, to give my reflection on Ahn Mar...
My Vision for a Meaningful Life
04/22/15 Paul Kyu Ho Kim
My father was raised in a tight-knit family so it was not surprising that he and his brothers remained close after emigrating from South Korea to America. At our Kim family reunions, we always took time to reflect on our family history. While I had heard bits and pieces at a t...
God Loves Adverbs
04/22/15 Kane Kim
This past May, I graduated from law school. And I realized I have learned quite a lot. Not really much about the law, but really more about myself. Thus, when Rev. Kim asked me to write about my vision in becoming a lawyer I was not sure what I needed to write. I told him that...
Faith in Film Spanglish (12호)
10/26/14 김에스더
DIRECTOR : James L. Brooks WRITER : James L. BrooksCAST : Adam Sandler (John Clasky), Tea Leoni (Deborah Clasky), Paz Vega (Flor Moreno), Cloris Leachman (Evelyn), Bernie (Sarah Steele), Christina (Shelbie Bruce).GENRE : Comedy / Romance / DramaDA...
Leadership Toolbox
10/16/14 Joshua Kim
Leadership. If you were to say that word in front of me five years ago, my gut would have tightened up and I would be trembling with fear. Often times, an organization or group depends on the competence of its leaders to be successful. Leaders make decisions that directly affe...
Eyes Open
10/16/14 Brian Yoo
God reveals himself to each of us in a unique and special way. This is how he revealed himself to me and led me to the path I am on now. I am a currently second year Midshipman at the United States Naval Academy. But, the journey to here and now began many years ago and agains...
How Messiaen's faith and philosophy shaped his innovative musical language
10/12/14 Young-Hyun Cho
Olivier Messiaen(1908-1992) isone of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. He was a composer, organist and teacher. He does not belong to a clear-cut category, but perhaps he could be viewed as an extension of the music line of Debussy, Stravinsky and Bartok , an...
God's Relentless Pursuit of Me
07/29/14 Susan Bai
Sitting in a posh midtown high rise office as a corporate attorney, I thought I finally made it. By the time I graduated college, I had moved with my family 12 times and had gone to 10 different schools between Korea and the States. Even though I was billing 65 hours a week wh...
That We Could Be So Desired
07/29/14 Danny Han
Ah, I hear my lover coming!He is leaping over the mountains,bounding over the hills.My lover is like a swift gazelleor a young stag. Look, there he is behind the wall,looking through the window,peering into the room.My lover said to me,"Rise up, my darling!Come away with me, ...
My Franciscan Journey
07/29/14 Peter Strand
[Easter, 2014] My interest in Francis and Clare of Assisi was first stirred when I was a child. I was brought up in a Protestant home where religion and the Bible were frequently discussed. We were involved in the life of the church too. At St. Ann's in Sayville, Long Island, ...
Choosing Joy
07/29/14 Chan Park
The routines of life can get quite monotonous and boring pretty fast. I think this is especially true for working adults who are expected to wake up at the same time to go to work at the same place with the same people five days a week all year long. This isn't to say that eac...