Trauma-Responsive Congregations<\/a> project, a multi-year Lilly Endowment-funded research initiative. Beyond academia, he is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA) and has served the church at regional and national levels, including as Moderator of the Synod of the Mid-Atlantic from 2023 to 2024.<\/p>\nPublications<\/h2>\nBooks<\/h3>\n
Undocumented Migration as a Theologizing Experience: Religious Stories Korean American Dreamers Tell in the Face of Uncertainty. <\/em><\/span>Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2024. <\/span><\/p>\nEdited Volumes<\/h3>\n
The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Practical Theology, <\/em><\/span>2nd ed, co-editor with Bonnie Miller-McLemore and Mindy McGarrah Sharp. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell (forthcoming in 2027).<\/span><\/p>\nPeer-Reviewed Articles<\/h3>\n
\u201cThe Genesis of William James\u2019s Psychology of Religion: From \u2018The Principles of Psychology\u2019 to \u2018The Varieties of Religious Experience,\u2019\u201d Religions 16, no. 11 (2025): 1404, 1-14, (co-authored with John Snarey and Shelby Hall).<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cBreaking the Asian American Silence at a Time Like This: Lessons from Esther 4,\u201d Theology Today 82, no. 3 (2025): 217-231 (co-authored with Hyun Woo Kim).<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cIs Eco-Anxiety Racial Anxiety?: Harnessing Eco- Anxiety for Practicing Racial and Climate Justice,\u201d International Academy of Practical Theology Conference Series 3 (2025): 31-37.<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cA Call for More Culturally Responsive Reading of Texts: Jamesian Reading of Howard Thurman\u2019s New Testament Spirituality,\u201d Homiletic 49, no. 2 (2024): 59-62.<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cCultivating Virtuous Imagination Among Asian American Dreamers in the Face of Violent<\/span>
\nUncertainty,\u201d Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics 43, no. 2 (2023): 399-415 (co-authored with Wonchul Shin).<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cCounterstorytelling as an Analytical Framework for Pastoral Research and Anti-racist Pastoral Care and Theology\u201d Journal of Pastoral Theology 33, no. 3 (2023): 154-170.<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cMigration, Trauma, and Spirituality: Intercultural, Collective, and Contextual Understanding and Treatment of Trauma for Displaced Communities,\u201d Pastoral Psychology 72 (2023): 403-416.<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cA Pilgrimage to the Motherland: Understanding Pilgrimage Experience as Embodied Religious Education for Korean American Youth and Young Adults,\u201d Religious Education 118, no. 5 (2023): 401-414 (co-authored with Garam Han).<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cFrom the Yellow Peril to the Model Minority and Back Again: Unraveling the Orientalist Representations of Asian Americans in the Age of Covid-19,\u201d Journal of Pastoral Theology 31, no. 2-3 (2021): 175-192.<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cDo We All Live Story-Shaped Lives? Narrative Identity, Episodic Life, and Religious Experience,\u201d Religions 12, no. 2 (2021): 71.<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cPrayer as a Religious Narrative: The Spiritual Self and the Image of God,\u201d Pastoral Psychology 68, no. 9 (2019): 639\u2013649.<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cConstructing Interreligious Identity: Narrative Personality Approach,\u201d Journal of Pastoral Theology 28, no. 3 (2018): 175-188.<\/span><\/p>\nBook Chapters<\/h3>\n
\u201cBuying and Remaining on Land in Minari as Trauma-Responsive Resistance: A Pastoral Theological Dialogue with Jeremiah 32\u201d In Korean Lenses for Literature, Film, and Cultural Perspectives in Biblical Studies: Pachinko, Minari, and Minor Feelings<\/em> (De Gruyter) edited by Chan Sok Park, Paul Kim, and Jin Young Kim (forthcoming). <\/span><\/p>\n\u201cPsychospiritual Stress, Trauma, and Migration: Understandings for Displaced Communities.\u201d In Reframing Trauma: A Psychospiritual Theory and Theology<\/em>, edited by M. Jan Holton and Jill Snodgrass, 109-130. Minneapolis, MD: Fortress Press, 2025.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n\u201cFrom the Yellow Peril to the Model Minority and Back Again: Unraveling the Orientalist Representations of Asian Americans in the Age of Covid-19.\u201d In Justice Matters: Spiritual Care and Pastoral Theological Imaginations in Times of the COVID-19 Pandemic<\/em>, edited by K. Samuel Lee and Danjuma Gibson, 102-120. London: Routledge, 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cCoping with a Double Pandemic of Health Crisis and Anti-Asian Racism in America: The Role of \u00a0Immigrant Churches.\u201d In\u00a0Between Pandemonium and Pandemethics: Responses to Covid-19 in Theology and Religions<\/em>, edited by Dorothea Erbele-K\u00fcster and Volker K\u00fcster, 57-68. Leipzig, Germany: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2022. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12612,"template":"","sth_faculty_type":[20],"sth_phd_student_type":[],"sth_staff_type":[],"sth_alumni_type":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/50277"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12612"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/50277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60489,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/50277\/revisions\/60489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"sth_faculty_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sth_faculty_type?post=50277"},{"taxonomy":"sth_phd_student_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sth_phd_student_type?post=50277"},{"taxonomy":"sth_staff_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sth_staff_type?post=50277"},{"taxonomy":"sth_alumni_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sth_alumni_type?post=50277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}