Kim served on the faculty of Moravian Theological Seminary in Bethlehem, PA from fall 2004 to July 2013. During her time at Moravian, she was promoted to Associate Professor in 2010 and served two terms as Director of the MATS program. Kim was ordained in the Presbyterian Church on November 13, 2011. She is currently Professor of Theology at Earlham School of Religion in Richmond, Indiana. She is the co-editor of the book series 'Asian Christianity in the Diaspora', published by Palgrave Macmillan.
Overview of works
Kim specializes in writing and teaching constructive theology, feminist theology, post-colonial theology, and Asian-American theology. Her first book, The Grace of Sophia, deals with the suffering in patriarchal Korean families and the way in which the ancient Hebrew notion of female Wisdom, Sophia, can liberate patriarchal Christology. Her second book, The Holy Spirit, Chi, and the Other celebrates the sense in which the Chinese / Korean / Japanese notion of Chi can add substance to our understanding of the Holy Spirit and unite spiritual ideas in Christianity with those in Confucianism, Hinduism, Taoism, and Buddhism. She has contributed to more than eleven other books on several contextual theological themes, and has contributed numerous papers and symposia participations on these subjects. She is currently working on 1 & 2 Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah, in Belief: A Theological Commentary on the Bible, part of a series by Westminster John Knox Press on the theological importance of these books for the church today.
Selected awards and honors
2020 Sabbatical Grant for Researchers from the Louisville Institute
2000 American Academy of Religion-Eastern International Region
Graduate Student Prize-Best Essay
1999 Robert Walker Russell Memorial Scholarship, Knox College
1997 Knox College Graduate Scholarship
1995 - 1996 Knox-Ewart Alumni Scholarship
1995 The Knox College Post-Graduate Scholarship
Selected publications
2017: Mother Daughter Speak: Lessons on Life. FAR Press.
2015: Embracing the Other: The Transformative Spirit of Love. Grand Rapids: W.B. Eerdmans.
2013: Colonialism, Han, and the Transformative Spirit, A Palgrave Pivot Book
2013: Proper 13 for Year A, in Preaching Gods Transformative Justice: A Lectionary Commentary, With 22 Holy Days of Justice, edited by Ron Lewis, Dale P. Andrews & Dawn Ottoni-Wilhelm
2012: Proper 13 for Year C, in Preaching Gods Transformative Justice: A Lectionary Commentary, With 22 Holy Days of Justice, edited by Ron Lewis, Dale P. Andrews & Dawn Ottoni-Wilhelm
2012: A Perspective on Ezra, Global Perspectives on the Bible, edited by Mark Roncace & Joseph Weaver
2011: The Holy Spirit, Chi, and the Other: A Model of Global and Intercultural Pneumatology :
2011: Jürgen Moltmann, in Beyond the Pale: Reading Christian Theology from the Margins, edited by Miguel De La Torre & Stacey M. Floyd-Thomas
2011: Feasting on the Word, Year A,: Season After Pentecost 2, contributor :
2011: Proper 13 for Year B, in Preaching Gods Transformative Justice: A Lectionary Commentary, With 22 Holy Days of Justice, edited by Ron Lewis, Dale P. Andrews & Dawn Ottoni-Wilhelm
2011: Three Theological Commentaries on 1 Thessalonians 2:1-8, 1 John 3:1-3 & 1 Thessalonians 2:9-13 in Feasting on the Word, Year A: Season After Pentecost 2, Volume XII, edited by David L. Bartlett & Barbara Brown Taylor
2010: The Grace of Sophia: A Korean North American Women's Christology :
2010: Asian American Feminist Theology, in Liberation Theologies in the United States: An Introduction edited by Anthony Pinn & Stacey M. Floyd-Thomas, 131-148
2008: What Forms Us: Multiculturalism, the Other and Theology, in Feminist Theology With A Canadian Accent: Canadian Perspectives on Contextual Theology, edited by Mary Ann Beavis, Elaine Guillemin & Barbara Pell, 78-99
2007: Literary Commentary on Bread for the Journey, by Henri Nouwen, in Masterplots II: Christian Literature, edited by John K. Roth, 215-217 ''
