Madang

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Madang: A New Podcast

My fondest memories of my childhood in Korea were when I would visit my grandmother’s house. There, dropped like a patch of vibrant green earth in moldy concrete, was the madang, the outdoor courtyard within a traditional Korean home. It was the place in which I played make-believe, the place where real life and the abstract first met.

A traditional characteristic of a Korean home, the madang is like an outdoor family room where friends and strangers alike gather to engage in conversation, debate and celebration. Most of the rooms in the home are entered through the madang, serving as a symbolic, inclusive title that beholds a space of new encounters with guests that seek to share their work and find fellowship in conversation.

My hope with the Madang podcast is to establish a network of virtual madangs, welcoming an array of guests to freely talk about their life, their understandings of God and their opinions on modern issues in religion and culture. It is my hope that listeners will create madangs around the world as they listen in, sharing the madang space we all cohabit to incite greater compassion, humanity and justice in the world.

The madang is open: I invite you to come in, converse, envision, reimagine and stay for a while.

About Madang:

Madang is the outdoor living room of the world. Here, we invite you to sit and tune into unreserved, remarkable conversations with renown authors, leaders, public figures and scholars on religion, culture and everything in-between.