Some of my readers/hearers may be feeling down today. It happens to me on a regular basis in the school system where I work. Some may be facing sickness or financial loss. But chances are none of us are experiencing anything like the constant...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
We've been following the Hefleys' By Their Blood history of the church in Korea. Before Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, came the Japanese stranglehold of Korea. Failing in some of its more brutal attempts to smother the church, Japan in Korea,...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
I don't subscribe to Confucius, but it is built into North Korean thinking that, in order to found a dynasty a certain amount of clout must be gained from "heaven." By the same token, a king who may have earned the right and then "backslides", so...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Why did Billy Graham go to North Korea twice in the 90's? I quote from Juche by Thomas Belke. During the last three years of Kim Il Sung's life, he was visited twice by Billy Graham... Despite claims in Graham's autobiography that his 1992 and...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Today we continue our (secular) history of North Korea, following the work of Bradley Martin, Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader. We're still in the late '70's. We were talking about the education system last time. Throughout this...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
As we continue our study of the Body of Christ in North Korea, we simply must stop and talk about the 1907 Pyongyang Revival. The Christian Koreans have a glorious history and a glorious future. Though we cannot understand some of the goings-on in...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Time for our next history lesson. We're in the late 70's. North Korea is still trying to expand, but is finding it difficult in a divided land. The peninsula's northern minerals and southern grains had at one time been a perfect complement...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Still following the Hefleys' By Their Blood I glean and paraphrase the following facts of the history of the church in North Korea. In 1882, the United States and Korea (there was only one Korea then) signed a trade treaty. Protestants now...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Korean history is chock full of heroes. Christian martyrs. Nation builders. Kings and presidents and ordinary folk who suffered much. That's why I have cringed recently to see the ongoing saga of Dae Joyoung. In Chicago you can see it twice a week...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
...continuing our history of North Korea via Martin' s Under the loving care... In the South Korea of 1979 there is discontent. Traffic jams, pollution, inflation, no middle-class. In October President Park is assassinated by a South Korean....[ abbreviated | read entire ]
