Let the Holy Spirit Guide How We Talk about Race

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Canada, Chinese Exclusion Act, christianity, Donald Trump, Holy Spirit, immigrant, model minority myth, race, racism, US Catholic Magazine

This is my latest article “Let the Holy Spirit Guide How We Talk about Race” for US Catholic Magazine.

My article appears in the October 2017 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 82, No. 10, pages 25–26).

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C.O. and Eliza Greene Lecture Speaker: Gardner-Webb University

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Eerdmans, Embracing the Other, Gardner-Webb University, guest speaker, immigrant, neighbor

I am so honored to be the C.O. and Eliza Green Lecture Speaker at Gardner-Webb University.

If you are in the area, please register and drop by.

 

The Research Center for Korean Community’s 7th Annual Conference

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church, immigrant, Korean, New York, Queen's College, The Research Center for Korean Community

I am excited to be invited to present a paper at The Research Center for Korean Community’s 7th Annual Conference, Queen’s College.

 

 

Grace Ji-Sun Kim | Listening to the Wisdom of Immigrant Women & Communities

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church, Eerdmans, Embracing the Other, Graham Hill, immigrant, The Global Church Project

In the summer of 2015, Dr. Graham Hill went on a world wide trip to interview and meet with theologians and church leaders. I am so honored that he reached out to me and interviewed me. Please visit his website for other interviews and blogs. Please read his books too.

Remembering our Past for a Better Future

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AAPI, Chinese Exclusion Act, Freddie Gray, grace ji-sun kim, history, immigrant, President Obama, racism, The Huffington Post

US President Barack Obama speaks during an event in the East Room of the White House May 28, 2013 in Washington, DC. Obama attend the event to celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. AFP PHOTO/Brendan SMIALOWSKI (Photo credit should read BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images)

May is AAPI Heritage Month. Here is my second Huffington Post on #AAPI, Remembering our Past for a Better Future.

Here is the first post on #AAPI Heritage Month.

Here I Am: Faith Stories of Korean American Clergywomen

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church, immigrant, Judson Press, Korean American Clergy, ministry, sermons, theology

A new edited book, Here I Am: Faith Stories of Korean American Clergywomen (Philadelphia: Judson Press) will be released October 20, 2015.

This is a special book as it was written in part to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Korean American Presbyterian Clergywoman (2015). Therefore, help us celebrate our anniversary and share the news of our book coming out this Fall.

A big thank you to all the writers who made this book possible. Also to those who helped fund this book through Pubslush, we are very grateful.

 

Foreign Women: Ezra, Intermarriage and Asian American Women’s Identity

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Ezra, feminist theology, foreigner, grace ji-sun kim, immigrant

This is my latest journal article for Feminist Theology “Foreign Women:  Ezra, Intermarriage and Asian American Women’s Identity”.  It is published in Feminist Theology 2014, Vol. 22(3): 241-252.

 

Abstract

One’s ‘Asianness’ signifies to the white dominant group, that s/he is a foreigner and consequently a second-class citizen. Asian American women have been perceived to be the perpetual foreigner. The understanding of the foreigner within the book of Ezra brings to light how foreign women were treated, excluded and forced to move away. As more immigrants come into North America, we need to learn ways to welcome them fully and not as second- class citizens or the Other.

Uriah – An Outsider Welcomed When It Was Useful

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Bathsheba, David, ethicsdaily.com, foreigner, grace ji-sun kim, Hittite, hybrid, hybridity, identity, immigrant, Jersusalem, Uriah, welcome

In contrast to David, Uriah abides by the Torah and observes the wartime soldier’s ban against conjugal relations. Despite this, the scribes did not claim Uriah as one of them, but as a “Hittite,” an outsider, Kim writes.

I had written an entry, “Uriah” for the new book, Dictionary of the Bible and Western Culture.   EthicsDaily.com has revised my entry and has posted it on their site.  This is the new post.

Uriah the Hittite, husband of Bathsheba, was an officer of the Israelite army, a native of Jerusalem and a faithful Yahwist. Uriah is a Yahwistic name meaning “Yahweh is my light/fire.”

The Grace of Sophia

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This is an excerpt from the preface of my first book, The Grace of Sophia.

“In this book I develop a Christology using Korean and Christian understandings of wisdom, which I believe will be liberative for Korean North American women who have suffered just for being who we are. I am a Korean North American woman who immigrated to Canada at the age of five.

My parents left the material, social, and family comforts of Korea in search of a better place to raise their children. However, Canada was not what they had dreamt it would be. In Canada, our family experienced a constant lack of money and material goods. I could not understand why we

My Foreword: Making Paper Cranes

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Asian American Theology, biography, Freud, grace ji-sun kim, immigrant, making paper-cranes, mihee kim-kort, preface, stories, women, women's issues

Foreword

By Grace Ji-Sun Kim

“PENISENVY”!

I write this on the blackboard on the day I cover Feminist Theology in my course, Theology from the Underside. I ask the students to read it. Most students read it as “penis envy.”

The way my students read this phrase seems to reinforce how Sigmund Freud has deeply influenced our societal perceptions of men and women. According to Freud, “penis envy” refers to the inner desire that women presumably wish they were men. For some time women adapted Freud’s teachings and actually believed that a penis was they all desired inwardly.