A Running List of Resources on Ethnic-Specific Ministries
By Alexander Jun and Moses Y. Lee
At KALI, we believe the Lord wants to use both multiethnic/cross-cultural and ethnic-specific ministries for his Kingdom. At the same time, we have a huge burden to see ethnic-specific ministries thrive. But with the majority of the resources out there being diverted to the former, we’ve compiled a running list of resources on topics related to the latter, mostly for a Korean-American context.
How the Second Generation of Korean-American Presbyterians Are Bridging the Gap (TGC)
By Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra (Aug 3, 2017)
Finding Resilience in Korean American Christianity (Inheritance Mag)
By Jonathan Sun (Jan 15, 2018)
What City Was Once “The Jerusalem of the East?” (Challies.com)
By Joel E. Kim (Feb 14, 2018)
Three Things to Know about Korean Christianity (Challies.com)
By Joel E. Kim (Feb 19, 2018)
Which Country Sends the [Second] Most Missionaries? (Challies.com)
By Joel E. Kim (Feb 21, 2018)
The Five Major Tribes of Korean American Christianity (Tom Talks)
By Thomas Hwang (Sep 12, 2018)
Neo-Calvinism and Ethnic Churches in Multiethnic Contexts (Journal of Reformed Theology)
By Andrew Ong (2018)
How the Korean Pentecost Can Guide Revival Today (TGC)
By Moses Y. Lee (Aug 9, 2019)
Beyond Varsity: An Interview with Owen Lee on Pastoring an Asian American Church (SOLA)
By Hannah Chao and Owen Lee (Nov 5, 2019)
Historically White Christian Ministries Now Have Korean American Male Leaders (CT)
By Morgan Lee (Mar 11, 2020)
The Asian-American Church & White Normativity w/ Moses Lee (Off the Pulpit Podcast)
By Moses Y. Lee (Dec 7, 2020)
Why We Still Need Ethnic Ministries in Addition to Multi-Ethnic Ministries (SOLA)
By Moses Y. Lee (Jan 12, 2021)
Why Ethnic-Specific Churches Are Still Important (SOLA Podcast)
By Thabiti Anyabwile, Alexander Jun, and Moses Y. Lee (Jan 25, 2021)
The Theology of Ethnic-Specific Churches: A Conversation with Dr. Andrew Ong and Dr. Gray Sutanto (SOLA Podcast)
By Moses Y. Lee, Andrew Ong, and Gray Sutanto (Feb 24, 2021)
Alexander Jun is professor of higher education at Azusa Pacific University and elder at New Life Presbyterian Church of Orange County. He was moderator of the 45th General Assembly for the Presbyterian Church in America.
Moses Y. Lee is the church planting pastor of Rosebrook Presbyterian Church in North Bethesda, Maryland this fall. He’s a contributing author of Hear Us, Emmanuel: Another Call for Racial Reconciliation, Representation, and Unity in the Church (White Blackbird, 2020). He occasionally writes for The Gospel Coalition and SOLA. You can follow him on Twitter.