A Letter To The Korean American Church

In A Letter to the Korean American Church, experienced Korean American youth pastor Terence Kim addresses challenges of culture versus Christianity by providing an overview of the origins of Korean culture and offering biblical responses to many of the major issues that many second and third-generation Koreans struggle with as a result of it today.

Second-generation Korean Americans, demonstrating an unparalleled entrepreneurial fervor, are establishing new churches with a goal of shaping the future of American Christianity. A Faith of Our Own investigates the development and growth of these houses of worship, a recent and rapidly increasing phenomenon in major cities throughout the United States. Immigration historians have depicted the second-generation as a transitional generation--on the steady march toward the inevitable decline of ethnic identity and allegiance. Sharon Kim suggests an alternative path. By harnessing religion and innovatively creating hybrid religious institutions, second-generation Korean Americans are assertively defining and shaping their own ethnic and religious futures. Rather than assimilating into mainstream American evangelical churches or inheriting the churches of their immigrant parents, second-generation pastors are creating their own hybrid third space--new autonomous churches that are shaped by multiple frames of reference. Including data gathered over ten years at twenty-two churches, A Faith of Our Own is the most comprehensive study of this topic that addresses generational, identity, political, racial, and empowerment issues.

Second-generation Korean Americans, demonstrating an unparalleled entrepreneurial fervor, are establishing new churches with a goal of shaping the future of American Christianity. A Faith of Our Own investigates the development and growth of these houses of worship, a recent and rapidly increasing phenomenon in major cities throughout the United States. Including data gathered over ten years at twenty-two churches, it is the most comprehensive study of this topic that addresses generational, identity, political, racial, and empowerment issues

In an earnest and searing wake-up call, the author of the bestseller Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy warns of the haunting similarities between today’s American church and the German church of the 1930s. Echoing Bonhoeffer’s prophetic call, Eric Metaxas exhorts his fellow Christians to repent of their silence in the face of evil before it is too late.

The American Society of Missiology Book Award Winner "Asian American theology is about God revealed in Jesus Christ in covenantal relationship with Asian Americans qua Asian Americans. Thus, Asian American theology is about Asian Americans as well, as human covenant partners alongside of God." In doing Asian American theology, Daniel D. Lee focuses on Asian American identity and its relationship to faith and theology, providing a vocabulary and grammar, and laying out a methodology for Asian American theologies in their ethnic, generational, and regional differences. Lee's framework for Asian American theological contextuality proposes an Asian American quadrilateral of the intersection of Asian heritage, migration experience, American culture, and racialization. This methodology incorporates the need for personal integration and communal journey, especially in the work of Asian American ministry. With interdisciplinary insights from interpersonal neurobiology and trauma theory, he offers a process of integration and reconciliation for Asian American theologies in service of Asian American communities of every kind.

To the Pleasant Hill is the only monthly "Quiet Time" devotional journal for Korean Americans by Korean American churches in the United States. Features: - Opening - a letter from the Pleasant Hill - Calendar / How to use this book - Reading sample/Simple instructions on how to use the book - 6 days a week - daily Bible reading plan: OT/NT for one chapter per day (notes, summary) - Scripture of the day: A paragraph from the Korean Revised Standard Bible and NRSV - Space for personal journal - "Sounds from the Hill" -short devotion reading of the day - Sunday - sermon note and memo space - Special Reading: introduction on each book of the Bible. - Story from the Readers: "When I came to the States..." space to share personal reflections on the immigrant experience - Special Story: New Christian Community - Quite Time small group information page - Editor's note, readers' feed back - Four months reading plan outline Benefits: - "To the Pleasant Hill" will help people to experience the power of God's Word. - "To the Pleasant Hill" will promote daily devotion (Quite Time) for Koreans in the United States and abroad. - "To the Pleasant Hill" will help Korean American immigrants with their daily scripture readings. - "To the Pleasant Hill" will encourage Korean American families to conduct family devotion. - "To the Pleasant Hill" will challenge readers to participate in the local church through small groups. - "To the Pleasant Hill" will encourage readers to grow and mature in the Christian life.

In this book, scholars of Korean American Protestant churches address key challenges concerning sociocultural and theological formation of identity and mission. The discussions are arranged in three areas: identity formation, missional and spiritual formation, and inter-cultural formation.

This book studies Korean American girls between thirteen and nineteen and their formation with regard to self, gender, and God in the context of Korean American protestant congregational life. It develops a hybrid methodology of de-colonial aims and indigenous research methods, aiming to facilitate transformative life in faith communities.