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Untangling Christian Labels and Political Rhetoric
Among believers, there is an internal battle within the church as to the appropriate response (or level of response) Christians and politics. But in order to understand the divided response, we need to understand and detangle the rhetoric, labels, and ideas that vocal Christians use in the political or public sphere. What are they? Conservatism…
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Emotional(ism) Korean American Faith
HAN (한) In Korean culture, han (한) is often used to describe a deep, complex, hard-to-translate into English emotion of grief, resentment and longing – born of collective suffering, oppression and loss. There is some debate, but it is said that han is born from decades (some say centuries) of colonization, war, and poverty. I…
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Truth in All Matters
Echo Chambers Recently (Sept. 2025), Donald Trump made misleading statements about Tylenol and autism, causing medical professionals to push back. Unfortunately, Christians have sometimes taken part in misinformation or repeating false conspiracy theories – “stop the steal”, QAnon, COVID/Vaccine misinformation, pandemic mandates, Jan. 6 insurrection, etc. In the name of faith, of “traditional” values, Christians…
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I’m a second-generation Korean American pastor. I enjoy observing American culture and how it intersects with faith and the Korean American experience.
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