Featured Articles
Congratulations, You Are an EM Pastor!
DANIEL JUNG
Everyone remembers their first ministry call. For those privileged enough to have experienced it at a Korean immigrant church, a roadmap would have been very helpful. Daniel Jung provides such a guide from his liminal time as an EM pastor (jundosanim).
KALI February 2025
KALI at General Assembly: The Yoke of an Easy Mask
DANIEL JUNG
KALI at GA has been getting bigger and better every year while maintaining our core mission: to promote fellowship, encourage ministers, provide leadership training, and to equip ministers for church planting and revitalization. Daniel Jung highlights how we do this at GA through the strength of our relationships with Jesus Christ and with one another.
KALI January 2025
Why Korean Language Presbyteries Exist in the PCA
MOSES Y. LEE
A two-part essay written by Moses Y. Lee that was originally published in October 2022 on the Semper Ref blog. It has been edited and combined as one post, published here with permission from the author
KALI January 2025
A Thousand Hallelujahs of Covenant Parenting
ALEXANDER JUN
KALI Director of Partnerships and Development, Dr. Alexander Jun, writes a praise of thanksgiving for God’s faithfulness to his family and an encouragement for all parents who are trying to model gospel parenting to their children.
KALI November 2024
Composting: Feeding the Imagination of the Theologian
DANIEL JUNG
Pastors, similarly, need time to become theologians. It takes time to think deeply about the world in intersection with deep thoughts about the Word. To become a good theologian, pastors need a compost pile for their imagination. A consistent fertilization of thoughts and ideas is how dirt becomes soil.
SOLA November 2024
The 13th Stone: The Call for Korean American Christians
ALEXANDER JUN
KALI Director of Partnerships and Development, Dr. Alexander Jun, writes about the necessity to tell our stories, and keep telling our diasporan stories for future generations of Korean American Christians and beyond.
KALI October 2024
This is the Church: Reflections from the 4th Lausanne Congress in Seoul, Korea
OWEN LEE
KALI Executive Director, Pastor Owen Lee, reflects on the recent Lausanne Congress last September, its vision for the church globally, and the profound impact it has made on his ministry locally.
KALI October 2024
A Move Toward Grace: a KALI Review of Culinary Class Wars
DANIEL JUNG
KALI reviews the Netflix show, Culinary Class Wars, and the insights rendered on how Korean Americans find a sense of permanence as God fulfills our continual longing for home.
KALI October 2024
Together: A GA Reflection co-written by Paul and Yina Han
PAUL HAN YINA HAN
This is the fourth installment of KALI Presents: Reflections from General Assembly 2024. Paul and Yina Han share their experiences of going to GA as a family with two young children and as first-timers.
KALI July 2024
Where Am I? My GA Experience as a First-Timer
CHRISTOPHER Y. KIM
This is the third installment of KALI Presents: Reflections from General Assembly 2024. Christopher Kim shares his experience of going to GA as a first-time commissioner, representing his church and the Korean Southwest Orange County Presbytery.
KALI June 2024
Our Story, Our Song
DANIEL JUNG
This is the second installment of KALI Presents: Reflections from General Assembly 2024. Daniel Jung reflects on the impact of the closing worship service, led in English and Korean by the Korean Capital Presbytery.
KALI June 2024
Knit Together, Indeed
TIMOTHY SIN
This is the first installment of KALI Presents: Reflections from General Assembly 2024. Tim Sin chronicles his thoughts from his time at GA, including his vulnerabilities and self-doubts before speaking on the Assembly floor.
KALI June 2024
Two Lunches, One Vision: CHCC and KALI at AALC
DANIEL JUNG, HELICON KUAN
Helicon Kuan and Daniel Jung share their experiences at AALC, specifically the two luncheons hosted by their respective groups on the second day of the conference.
SOLA May 2024
PCA General Assembly Will Feature Korean-Style Worship Service
RUTHANNE JENKINS
Several Korean-speaking churches will lead the Thursday night worship service (focused on the theme Obedient to the Great Commission), which will include a time of Korean-style prayer.
ByFaith April 2024
The Opportunity for Renewal After the Perfect Storm
BOBBY SUH
Many problems we are facing in the church come from a lack of discipleship in helping people process, repent, and seek to be transformed through drinking the Living Water daily.
SOLA April 2024
Gospel Encouragement for the Parent of a Lonely Child
DANNY KWON
For any parent, it is hard to see your child struggle with loneliness…parents long to see their child thrive in social relationships. And when these seem lacking, parents can easily give way to worry and fear.
ROOTED April 2024
Making Youth Mission Trip Follow-Up Your Starting Point
DANNY KWON
Short-term mission trips can be done more effectively by facilitating thorough follow-up with our teams. By working to ensure we convey more than a feel-good experience, our short-term trips can have long term impact.
ROOTED April 2024
In Praise of Remarkable Mundanity and Immigrant Church Spaces
DANIEL JUNG
God is still doing something amazing in immigrant churches, to which a part of that is to heal a sense of cultural self-reproach many of us didn’t know existed.
SOLA March 2024
It’s Okay to Not Be Okay: The Importance of Gospel Centrality in Asian American Youth Ministries
HUEY LEE
We need to show our Asian American students that because of the gospel, it’s okay to not be okay. The gospel is big enough to hold them in their grief, sorrow, pain, and confusion.
ROOTED March 2024
On Sabbath Rest and Immigrant Fathers
DANIEL JUNG
Our rest traditions are undoubtedly shaped by the moments in our childhood when we witnessed our earthly fathers engage in acts of exuberant joy, relishing life in ways that were indelibly impressed upon us as children.
THE RABBIT ROOM February 2024
Predation and Power in Asian American Churches: The Need for Peacemakers
DANIEL JUNG
Over the course of the last few decades… “Abuse”, “predatory”, and “grooming” have taken on deeper and broader applications birthed out of changing social climates. Let me reassure you, this is good news.
SOLA February 2024
Homecoming: Creating an Intentional Space to Gather
DANIEL JUNG
In November 2023, KALI hosted its inaugural National Gathering on the campus of Covenant Theological Seminary. Korean American pastors and ruling elders spent four days and three nights in fellowship and communion.
ALLIANCE FOR MISSION & RENEWAL January 2024
Recognizing Patterns of Spiritual Abuse Before It’s Too Late
MOSES Y. LEE
Several recent, high-profile cases of spiritual abuse in my denomination have left many of us pastors feeling uneasy. If those leaders can be guilty of spiritual abuse, what’s to say more of us aren’t headed in the same direction? Is it possible to recognize abusive-ish behavior before it’s too late?
SOLA June 2023
The Legacy of Tim Keller: A Herald of Good News to Asian American Christians
DANIEL JUNG
Keller’s legacy will be that he introduced many church communities to a new plaster cast of the gospel into which we pour our loves and lives. It is a message of good news that is more like honey on our lips than yokes around our necks—and for that, we will always be grateful.
SOLA May 2023
The Idolatry of Ministry Longevity and the Abuse That Follows
MOSES Y. LEE
When ministry longevity becomes the end goal, we invite abusive behavior to grow and thrive as red flags are ignored or those serving faithfully in the “lower rungs” of ministry are often sidelined or neglected out of selfishness, self-preservation, or comfort.
SOLA May 2023
Beef and Belief
DANIEL JUNG
Whether you believe revenge is a dish best served cold or are more inclined to turn the other cheek, Beef persuades us that while our journeys toward redemption are often clumsy and full of wrong turns, they can also be testimonies of God’s faithfulness.
THINK CHRISTIAN April 2023
Severance, Pachinko, and Facing the Truth of Trauma
DANIEL JUNG
What might two Apple TV series—Severance and Pachinko—have in common, emotionally and theologically? I believe Asian-Americans can see the connection more readily than others.
THINK CHRISTIAN May 2022
The Generational Healing of Turning Red: An AAPI Christian Perspective
MOSES Y. LEE
Little did we know just how profound of an impact [Turning Red] would have on our own stories, the depth to which we would reflect on our own coming of age experiences, and the generational trauma that we would revisit as fellow East Asian immigrants.
SOLA March 2022
The Theology of Ethnic Specific Churches
MOSES Y. LEE, ANDREW ONG, GRAY SUTANO
Are there biblical and theological rationale for ethnic-specific ministries? Are just as vital to the church as multi-ethnic churches? In this conversation for the SOLA Network, SOLA Editorial Board member Moses Lee interviewed Dr. Andrew Ong and Dr. Gray Sutanto to answer these questions.
SOLA February 2021
Why Ethnic-Specific Churches Are Still Important
MOSES Y. LEE, THABITI ANYABWILE, ALEXANDER JUN
Should all churches be multiethnic? Is there still a place for homogenous or ethnic-specific churches? To help us think through these questions, Moses Y. Lee interviewed Thabiti Anyabwile as well as Dr. Alexander Jun.
SOLA January 2021
Meet James Han - KALI Regional Leader of Korean Southwest Presbytery
JAMES HAN
This is the fourth in a series of interviews with KALI’s regional leaders. At KALI, we want to promote the growth of healthy, gospel-centered pastors to help them flourish in their respective ministry settings.
KALI May 2020
Meet Walter Lee - KALI Regional Leader of Korean Capital Presbytery
WALTER LEE
This is the third in a series of interviews with KALI’s regional leaders. At KALI, we want to promote the growth of healthy, gospel-centered pastors to help them flourish in their respective ministry settings.
KALI May 2020
4 Ways to Build and Sustain a Healthy Worship Ministry
MOSES Y. LEE AND ALBERT YOUNG
Few ministry servants have it as difficult as worship leaders in Asian American churches. They are often under-appreciated and overworked while receiving little affirmation.
SOLA April 2020
Jewish Feasts and Festivals
PETER LEE
The feasts and festivals of ancient Israel were times when the people of God would commemorate redemptive acts of the Lord. Six major assemblies are mentioned in the Mosaic law.
Tabletalk March 2020
Why Political Moderation Isn’t Good Enough
MOSES Y. LEE
In our increasingly politicized and polarized society, it’s become fashionable for Christians to prove to others that they are essentially good people by expressing political opinions that they believe are moderate and morally upright while dehumanizing “the other” side.
SOLA February 2020
Serve on RPR: An Urgent Plea to Second-Generation Korean American TEs and REs
MOSES Y. LEE & EDDIE LIM
Every year at the PCA General Assembly (GA), the Committee on Review of Presbytery Records (RPR) hands out a massive pile of paper with a list of all their citations from the minutes submitted by all the presbyteries from the previous year.
KALI January 2020
Beyond Varsity: An Interview with Owen Lee on Pastoring an Asian American Church
OWEN LEE
If you had told then-seminary student Owen Lee that he would one day be the senior pastor of a majority Korean American church, he would have been incredulous.
SOLA November 2019
What John Calvin Taught (Me) About Refugees
MOSES Y. LEE
My impression of John Calvin as a Bible nerd, a heady theologian, and the brains of the Reformation remained unchanged after I read the majority of John Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion in seminary.
SOLA October 2019
Work Life Series: Application for Employees and Employers
OWEN LEE
What are some practical ways both employees and employers can live out the gospel in the workplace?
SOLA October 2019
Work Life Series: Rest from Work
OWEN LEE
Because of our deep desire to succeed and also because of our desperate desire to get our parents’ approval and to honor their sacrifices, we also work harder, even if it means we work too much.
SOLA October 2019
10 Traits of a Humble Leader
MOSES Y. LEE
Recent stories of celebrity pastors and worship leaders apostatizing has me thinking about the idea of Christian leadership.
TGC September 2019
Work Life Series: The Redemption of Work
OWEN LEE
The Gospel doesn’t just give you the power to be a “good person” at work. It also gives you the power to do your work in a new kind of way.
SOLA September 2019
Work Life Series: The Curse and Temptations of Work
OWEN LEE
Why work is so hard and unfulfilling? There’s a problem with work because of a curse, and because of the effects of sin, we can fall into two temptations when it comes to work.
SOLA September 2019
Work Life Series: The Goodness, Purpose, and Dignity of Work
OWEN LEE
As Christ-followers, we need a view of work that is neither too low nor too high; we need a view of work that is biblical.
SOLA September 2019
How the Korean Pentecost Can Guide Revival Today
MOSES Y. LEE
After the Pyongyang Revival of 1907, surveys indicate the Korean Protestant population grew by roughly 2.5 million adherents and 1,300 churches from 1907 to 1977.
TGC August 2019
Middle Relievers for the Kingdom
ALEXANDER JUN
Short-term missionaries are like middle relievers in baseball: vital to the game and unique to the team.
TGC July 2019
An Apology to the Christian 99%, from the 1%
MICHAEL OH
You don’t exist to help professional ministry leaders fulfill the Great Commission. We exist to help you do it.
CT June 2019
5 Lessons from Persecuted Christians in China
ALEXANDER JUN
For the watching world, including believers who share the same faith with our brothers and sisters in China, we have much to learn from them. Here are five lessons we can learn through their sacrifices.
TGC January 2019
The Korean American Coming of Age in the PCA
MOSES Y. LEE
As we celebrated with a standing ovation, many of us wept as we watched Alexander Jun, the first Asian-American moderator of the PCA, embrace Ince and hand him the gavel.
byFaith October 2018
How to Survive Your First PCA General Assembly as a Korean American TE/RE
CHRIS JHU, HANSOO JIN, MOSES Y. LEE
The PCA’s annual GA doesn’t have to be so intimidating. Read more for tips and suggestions to make the most of GA as Korean Americans.
KALI May 2018
The Significance of the Korean Peace Summit: An American Civil War Analogy
MOSES Y. LEE
To understand what Korean Americans are currently experiencing, imagine a scenario where the American Civil War never ended.
TGC April 2018
The Underrated Strategic Value of Church Buildings
DUKE KWON
This question is vividly on my mind because the building where our church formerly worshiped is being converted to luxury condos, and ground-breaking just began.
TGC April 2018
What We Miss When We Say We’re ‘For the City’
DUKE KWON
“The city” defines this new generation of urban church plants. But what precisely does that mean to these ministries and their leaders?
TGC April 2018
Should We Abandon the Language of ‘Racial Reconciliation’?
DUKE KWON
The phrase “racial reconciliation” is increasingly being questioned and then abandoned in favor of the alternate term “racial conciliation.” But should it be?
TGC October 2017
How the Second Generation of Korean-American Presbyterians Are Bridging the Gap
SARAH EEKHOFF ZYLSTRA
Second generation Korean American Presbyterians are rising up as leaders within the PCA.
TGC August 2017
Evangelism vs Cultural Engagement: An Asian American Application of “Created and Creating”
MOSES Y. LEE
Growing up in conservative Asian American churches, I discovered that the Neo-Confucian values of my home conveniently overlapped with the American cultural values of evangelicalism/fundamentalism.
Reformed Margins May 2017
Engaging Japan with the Gospel: An Interview with Michael Oh
MICHAEL OH
In this interview, MTW Missionary, Michael Oh, describes the unique challenges and blessings that come from doing missions in Japan.
Tabletalk August 2013
The Members of the Church
JULIUS KIM
As a member of a local church, you receive not only wonderful privileges, but also have special responsibilities.
Tabletalk September 2016