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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

Why Korean Language Presbyteries Exist in the PCA: Part I

MOSES Y. LEE

As our denominational fathers enter into glory and pass the baton to the next generation, questions are being asked by this new generation of Teaching Elders about the origins and the intended purpose of KLPs. In this two-part series, I will begin with a historical overview of KLPs and then address some of the major challenges that KLPs are currently facing. 

SEMPER REF October 2022

Why Korean Language Presbyteries Exist in the PCA: Part II

MOSES Y. LEE

The growth of English-speaking Korean Americans in KLPs over the years necessitated presbytery business to eventually be conducted in both Korean and English. Consequently, this would also help raise up English-speaking leaders in order to pursue the end goal of KLPs–their eventual integration into the broader, English-speaking body of the PCA. However, the growth of English-speaking members and their increasing influence in KLPs have met several challenges, mainly on two fronts.

SEMPER REF October 2022

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