Dr. Yung Suk Kim's Scholarly Journey
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Thursday, January 26, 2023

"Why some anxiety is good, even though it feels bad"

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I was listening to the NPR program "On Point" and the topic was anxiety. Anxiety as an emotion brings data about uncertainties i...
Tuesday, January 24, 2023

Wisdom

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My working definition of wisdom:   "Wisdom is practical, insightful knowledge, experience, attitude, life skills, or abilities conduciv...
Friday, December 9, 2022

Meditation on 1 Cor 12:12-27: Deconstruction and "the Body of Christ"

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My alternative interpretation of 1 Cor 12 may be summarized as follows:  Paul's point is not that the church is the body of Christ but t...
Friday, November 18, 2022

Cross-cultural Wisdom

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Simple truth -Jesus: “In everything do to others as you would have them do to you, for this is the Law and the Prophets" (Golden Rule, ...
Thursday, November 3, 2022

2 Corinthians: Contextual Critical Commentary

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A peek into the Table of Contents 1:1—2:13 (+7:5–16; +13:11–13)  A Letter of Reconciliation   1:1–2  Salutation 1:3–11  Blessing and...
Wednesday, November 2, 2022

The Surgeon General’s Framework for Workplace Mental Health and Well-Being

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I made the acronym SABAD (Security, Accomplishment, Belonging, Autonomy, and Dignity) to remember this diagram "The Surgeon General’s F...
Monday, October 31, 2022

Paul's Gospel, Empire, and Race/Ethnicity: Through the Lens of Minoritized Scholarship

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I am excited to finish editing the volume and submitted the final submission files to the publisher. I wrote in the Introduction: "Cont...
Wednesday, October 19, 2022

New Testament Theology

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In the gospels, Jesus's death is not for the forgiveness of sins. In Mark, forgiveness is possible through water baptism and repentance....
Monday, October 17, 2022

How to read "difficult stories" in the Bible

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 [Courtesy of FreeBibleImages.org] Do you try to justify a complex story or explain it away? Or do you find a way to understand it criticall...
Sunday, October 2, 2022

Mary Magdalene

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To understand who Mary Magdalene was, we need to find the closest or earliest sources about her. But there are no earlier sources about her ...
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