The parable of the Mustard Seed is not about ambition or success. It teaches that small should not be ignored. We should note that Jesus us...

How can we translate and interpret the Greek adverb anothen (ἄνωθεν) in John 3:3? Technically, it means either "again" or "...

True wisdom begins with self-realization that we are small and evanescent. Qohelet and Daodejing are full of this idea.

Yung Suk Kim Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology Virginia Union University I am an As...

Redaction criticism asks why an evangelist altered his sources. To answer this, readers first identify the changes. For example, in the bapt...

  Research means digging into subjects deep and wide, connecting them with today's world, and thinking together about the future that is...

I am amazed at the great thinkers' concise, easy-to-understand expressions of truth. I find the examples in Jesus and Confucius, who liv...

Analects 14:35 下學而上達。知我者、其天乎。 "Study from below and reach the top. Who knows me except for Heaven?" (trans. by Yung Suk Kim). See ...

  Analects 14:34 或曰。以德報怨、何如。子曰。何以報德 以直報怨、以德報德。 Someone said, "How is repaying resentment with virtue possible?" Confucius said: ...

I have identified a plausible opening for a new interpretation of Confucian thought that challenges the traditional framework. Traditionally...