Historically White Christian Ministries Now Have Korean American Male Leaders

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🗓️ 11 March 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Transcribed highlights of the show can be found in our episode summaries. On Monday, the Christian anti-hunger advocacy organization Bread for the World announced that Eugene Cho would be its next president. Cho is most well-known the founder of Seattle’s Quest Church and the nonprofit One Days Wages. He’s also the latest Korean American Christian male leader to assume a top spot in an evangelical organization. In 2013, Michael Oh became the global executive director/CEO of Lausanne. In 2015, Joel Kim became the president of Westminster Seminary California. In 2017, Alexander Jun was elected moderator of the 45th General Assembly for the Presbyterian Church in America or PCA. Last year, PCA pastor Walter Kim became the president of the National Association of Evangelicals and Julius Kim became the president of The Gospel Coalition. Vanderbilt Divinity School professor Paul Lim joined digital media producer Morgan Lee and news editor Daniel Silliman on Quick to Listen to discuss whether more Korean Americans in leadership will lead to greater cultural representation overall, the long relationship between Presbyterianism and Koreans, and what the church at large can learn from Korean Americans. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you in part by The Apologetics Guy Show, the podcast that helps you find clear answers to tough questions about Christianity.
0:11.1	Learn to explain your faith with courage and compassion. Join Moody Bible Institute professor Dr. Mikhail del Rosario at apologeticsky.com.
0:21.9	On Monday, the Christian Anti-Hunger Advocacy Organization bred for the world announced that
0:27.8	Eugene Cho would be its next president.
0:29.9	Cho is most well known as the founder of Seattle's Quest Church and also of the founder of the
0:35.1	nonprofit, One Day's Wages.
0:37.0	He's also the latest Korean-American Christian male leader to assume a top spot in an evangelical organization.
0:44.4	In 2013, Michael O. became the global executive director slash CEO of LaZan.
0:50.3	In 2015, Joel Ken became the president of Westminster Seminary, California.
0:55.3	In 2017, Alexander June was elected moderator of the 45th General Assembly for the Presbyterian Church in America, or PCA.
1:03.3	Last year, PCA Pastor Walter Kim became the new president of the National Association of Evangelicals.
1:09.0	We wanted to explore how and why a number of Korean-American
1:12.2	men have been tapped to lead historically white evangelical institutions in the past decade.
1:16.8	And what does this say about the changing shape of American evangelicalism? We also wanted to discuss
1:21.5	the absence of Korean-American women from these leadership trajectories.
1:26.3	Today is Wednesday, March 11th,
1:29.0	and you're listening to Quick to Listen,
1:30.8	where we go be on hashtags and hot takes
1:32.9	to discuss a major cultural event.
1:35.2	I'm Morgan Lee, digital media producer
1:36.9	here at Christianity Today.
1:38.4	And I am Daniel Silliman,
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