Joe Kim, Author at REFORMED MARGINS

An Open Letter to Andrew Yang Regarding His Recent WaPo Article

April 3, 2020April 4, 2020 Joe Kim 10 Comments Andrew yang, AndrewYang, Covid inspired racism, racial violence, racism, WaPo, Yang2024, YangGang

Dear Andrew Yang, First off, I am one of your supporters and have been Yang Gang for some time now,

Current Events

Anxiety in the Epicenter of Covid-19

April 2, 2020March 8, 2022 Joe Kim 0 Comments AndrewYang, anxiety, Asian American, coronavirus, COVID-19, epicenter, NYC, queens, racism, war on normal people

A Scary Text Message Just yesterday, I got a text from a loved one who is a medical professional on

politics

The Yanging of a Christian Pastor

January 16, 2020January 16, 2020 Joe Kim 3 Comments AmericaNeedsYang, AndrewYang, Freedom Dividend, UBI, YangGang

Intro: The Yanging Sometime this past summer, a friend from my former church began waxing lyrical online about presidential candidate

Spiritual Growth

I Learned Everything I Know about Spiritual Growth from Baseball

October 17, 2019October 17, 2019 Joe Kim 0 Comments Baseball, Charlie Manuel, Gabe Kapler, sanctification, spiritual growth

The by-his-gut Baseball manager has lived a little. He has lived first hand through so many baseball scenarios that they have all become internalized. He doesn’t need a book or a stat sheet to tell him what to do or to dictate his actions. His “gut” has already seen this scenario, perhaps hundreds of times and has now developed an unconscious, internalized memory that manifests as a “feeling” in his bowels.

Culture & Identity Current Events

Safe Space And Why White People Are Inappropriately Calling The Cops

August 14, 2018August 30, 2018 Joe Kim 0 Comments 3rd space, A Faith of Our Own, Harry Potter, immaturity, pool, racism, safe space, Sharon Kim, Smith College, Starbucks, Teenager's room, third space, white people calling the cops on black people

A few days ago, yet another story came across my feed about a black college student, this time at Smith

Church & Ministry Interviews

RM Interviews: Pastor Dan Hyun

June 13, 2018 Joe Kim 0 Comments Dan Hyun, multiethnic church, Village Church in Baltimore

“Being part of a multicultural church requires dying to yourself as it points us to the way of our Savior. If done correctly, it forces us to our knees crying out to God as we learn that the only way we can die to ourselves is by walking with the Christ who gave himself. We’re learning that a reconciling church which calls people to die to themselves for the sake of God and others will be one of the most powerful ways to point people to the only hope we have in Jesus.”

Apologetics Theology & Scripture

A Theodicy-Oriented Salvation

April 23, 2018April 23, 2018 Joe Kim 0 Comments Brothers Karamazov, christus victor, Dostoyevsky, pain, Penal Substitutionary Atonement, sin, Suffering, Theodicy

Given a good and loving God, it ought not be possible that tragedies happen…and yet they do. What’s more is that these things happen with alarming frequency and regularity, each time mounting a stronger and stronger argument that God does not exist, or perhaps worse, doesn’t care.

Culture & Identity Ethics & Politics

Shame, Sh*tholes, Race and Grace

February 20, 2018February 20, 2018 Joe Kim 0 Comments abbadon, Brene Brown, Cam Newton, connection, ehad, grace, Law/Grace distinction, Mike Zimmer, oneness, President, race, shame, sheol, shitholes, Trump, unity

Shame is the terrible sense that one is somehow unworthy of “ehad”. Perhaps understanding the link between shame and racism will help us to be less myopic about its instances see just how serious even micro-expressions of this stuff can be.