July 2020
Grace in Dislocation
I spent this Fourth of July morning looking for one of my hearing aids that had suddenly gone missing. A good two hours of GPS tracking was to no avail. Then my two daughters, who […]
June 2020
Not in Words but in Power
Our Reopening Task Force is currently working hard to make sure that the upcoming reopening of our worship hall will be safe and well-organized. In-person worship service will resume after we receive the approval and […]
Post-Pandemic Ministry: Opportunity to Renew the Essentials
The Council of Korean-American Churches of Greater New York is hosting a 3-day webinar (June 22-24) to share thoughts on how to prepare for a world post-pandemic. I will be giving a talk on “Post-Pandemic […]
From ego- to eco-
I read a piece by Heekyung Ahn, a Korean-American journalist for The Kyunghyang Shinmun, in which seven scholars across various fields weighed in on the socio-economic implications of the coronavirus pandemic. One topic that stood […]
Northern and Southern Racism Revisited
Thefts and robberies were not uncommon when my mother ran a dry cleaning business some twenty years ago in Chicago. It was almost like an annual event. Paying to replace the stolen garments was no […]
May 2020
Let Them Breathe!
“I can’t breathe.” These were the agonizing words of George Floyd, shortly before he died last Monday after a police officer knelt on his neck to hold him down on the ground. Pain and anger […]