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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.
The End of Time: How Brave Are We?
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December 23, 2020
This week’s lesson focuses on the end of time. My initial intention was to address the differences between the Old Testament and New Testament perspectives. In short, the Old Testament envisions a
gradual end to evil, as in Isaiah 65:21, rather than a sudden and more thorough eradication of evil and suffering, as depicted in Revelation 21:3–4:
Isa. 65:21: No more shall there be in it an infant that lives but a few days, or an old person who does not live out a lifetime; for one who dies at a hundred years will be considered a youth, and one who falls short of a hundred will be considered accursed.
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