“The Most High . . . is kind to the ungrateful and wicked” (Lk. 6:35)Whenever I teach missiology, I tell the following story to distinguish between churches that do missions out of missio Dei (mission of God: His tender heart for the nations) and those that do them as annual programs.  While 52 Americans were held hostage in the U.S. Embassy in Iran for 15 months from 1979-1981, many churches were...  Read More

1 Thessalonians 2:7“But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother taking care of her own children.”Something I said in my preceding blog might have alarmed some readers: “While many social roles and responsibilities are mutually inclusive between the two sexes, they do not always perform at the same level relating to certain tasks attributable to differences in physicality and to a lesser ex...  Read More

“So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them” (Genesis 1:27)“I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well” (Ps. 139:14)Meet French philosopher Simone de Beauvoir (1908-86), a pioneer of modern feminism, who once declared, “One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.” Her ou...  Read More

Ephesians 2:12 (ESV)“Remember that you were at that time separated from Christ . . . having no hope and without God in the world.”Romans 15:7 (NIV)“Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring praise to God.”Upon learning about “Klinefelter syndrome”—an abnormal male genetic condition—I wondered whether a character called “Klinger” from the old ‘70s hit TV show M.A.S.H....  Read More

A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion (Prov. 18:2) See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ (Col. 2:8). When it comes to the beliefs of our fellow human beings and even those who “claim to live in Christ” (1 Jn. 2:6), we c...  Read More

My recent blogs about reopening churches drew several disapproving responses. One objector charged that “churches are considered non-essential because...  Read More

Little did Mary Paik Lee know that her memoir, "Quiet Odyssey: A Pioneer Korean Woman in America" (1990), allegedly contains an idea that, according to Robin DiAngelo’s bestseller "White Fragility" (2018), can “cause the most daily damage to people of color” (5). Really? Lee’s book tells...  Read More

I’ve been in public ministry since 1982, and as an evangelical Protestant, I often acknowledge when our movement makes mistakes, which happens too frequently. But when outsiders talk...  Read More

On May 4, when a friend showed up for a walk without wearing a mask, I was a bit taken aback. At a time when the fear of COVID-19 was exacerbated by a...  Read More

The doctrine of rapture posits that any day now Jesus will descend from heaven and meet the believers in the air, and then they will return to heaven (1 Thess 4:15–17), at which point the seven-year tribulation will...  Read More

Is BLM a Marxist outfit? Perhaps so, since Patrisse Cullors, a co-founder of BLM, said in a 2015 interview: “Myself and Alicia [also a co-founder of BLM] . . . are trained Marxists. We are super-versed on, sort of, ideological theories. And I think that what we really tried to do is build a movement that could be utilized by many, many black folk.” But Cullors...  Read More

Pastor Ryun Chang discusses about the relation between BLM and the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure.  Read More