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Methodism courses through Sujin Pak’s DNA “I am the granddaughter, daughter, and niece of multiple United Methodist elders and deacons on both the Korean and American sides of my family,” she says. Yet the church “was also my crisis of faith.”
“I too often saw a gap between what I understood to be the Christian message of love, hope, peace, and justice and the actual actions of various expressions of the church across time,” says Pak. As a vice dean at Duke University’s Divinity School, her alma mater, she tried to address that gap by, for example, welcoming LGBTQ+ students, faculty, and staff.