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Helen Kim
[People]Helen Kim (Kim Hwal-lan, 1899–1970) was a Methodist educator and leader in the women's movement. She was the first Korean principal of Ewha Women's College and later served as president of Ewha Womans University. She also helped found the Korean YWCA. Her activities during the final years of Japanese colonial rule have made her the subject of controversy over collaboration.
Ham Tae-young
[People]Ham Tae-young (咸台永, 1873–1964) was a Presbyterian minister who had earlier served as a judicial officer of the Korean Empire. He was one of the forty-eight national representatives of the March First Movement and served as the third Vice President of the Republic of Korea.
Choi Tae-yong
[People]Choi Tae-yong (崔泰瑢, 1897–1950) was a Korean Protestant minister during the Japanese colonial period. Beginning in the Non-Church movement, he founded the Korean Evangelical Church of Joseon (now the Korea Evangelical Church) in 1935. It was a denomination established by Koreans themselves, and he served as its first bishop.
Son Jeong-do
[People]Son Jeong-do (孫貞道, 1882–1931) was a Methodist minister and Korean independence activist during the Japanese colonial period. He served as speaker of the Provisional Legislative Assembly and as minister of transportation in the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea. In his final years he carried out pastoral ministry and led a farmers' movement in Jilin, Manchuria.
Choi Heung-jong
[People]Choi Heung-jong (崔興宗, 1880–1966) was a Presbyterian minister and independence activist from Gwangju, Korea. He devoted his life to caring for people with Hansen's disease (leprosy), beggars, and tuberculosis patients, and he became known as "the father of beggars and lepers." His pen name was Obang (五放).
Neo-evangelicalism
[History]Neo-evangelicalism was a Protestant movement that arose in the United States in the 1940s. It sought to preserve the conservative theology of fundamentalism while moving beyond fundamentalism's separatism, which kept other churches at a distance, and its disregard for scholarship.
Religious Persecution in the Soviet Union
[History]Religious persecution in the Soviet Union refers to the suppression of churches and believers by the Soviet regime after the Russian Revolution of 1917. The regime made atheism its state ideology and restricted religious activity through laws, administrative measures, propaganda, and arrests.
Toronto Blessing
[History]The Toronto Blessing was a charismatic revival phenomenon that began in January 1994 at the Toronto Airport Vineyard church in Toronto, Canada. Physical manifestations at its meetings, such as laughter, trembling, and falling down, drew both worldwide attention and controversy.
Word of Life Press (Korea)
[Institutions]Word of Life Press is a Christian publishing house founded in Korea in 1953 by the American mission agency TEAM (The Evangelical Alliance Mission). It publishes Christian books, operates Christian bookstores, and carries out literature ministry.
Kim Dae-hyun
[People]Kim Dae-hyun (金大鉉, 1873 or 1876–1940) was a Korean Presbyterian elder during the period of Japanese colonial rule in Korea. As an elder of Seungdong Church in Seoul, he donated a large sum that laid the foundation for Chosun Theological Seminary, the predecessor of Hanshin University, and he served as its first president.
Seo Gyeong-jo
[People]Seo Gyeong-jo (徐景祚, 1852–1938) was an early Korean Protestant convert and Presbyterian minister from Uiju, Pyongan Province. With his older brother Seo Sang-ryun, he founded Sorae Church in Hwanghae Province, and in 1907 he became one of the first seven Koreans ordained to the ministry.
Faye Moon
[People]Faye Moon (Moon Hye-rim, 1936–2022) was an American-born social worker and human rights activist and the wife of the Rev. Moon Dong-hwan. She publicized news of South Korea's democratization movement abroad, and in 1986 she founded Durebang, a mission center in Uijeongbu, South Korea, that assists women in U.S. military camp towns.
Moon Jae-rin
[People]Moon Jae-rin (文在麟, 1896–1985) was a Korean Presbyterian minister. Raised in Myeongdong Village in North Jiandao, he served as senior pastor of Yongjeong Central Church. After moving to South Korea in 1946, he devoted himself to the lay movement. He was the father of the ministers Moon Ik-hwan and Moon Dong-hwan.
Ella Dodge Appenzeller
[People]Ella Dodge Appenzeller (1854–c. 1915) was the wife of Henry Appenzeller, a missionary of the Methodist Episcopal Church (the Northern Methodist church) in the United States. She arrived in Korea (then the Joseon kingdom) with her husband in 1885 as a member of one of the earliest Protestant missionary families there.
Suh Byung-ho
[People]Suh Byung-ho (徐丙浩, 1885–1972) was a Korean Presbyterian elder, independence activist, and educator from Sorae in Jangyeon, Hwanghae Province. He is known as the first person in Korean Protestantism to receive infant baptism, and in Shanghai he took part in the New Korea Youth Party and the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea.
Mina
[Bible]The mina was a unit of weight and currency used in the ancient Near East and the Greco-Roman world. In the New Testament it appears in the Parable of the Minas in Luke 19, and in the Old Testament the same unit appears under its Hebrew name, maneh.
Ben-ammi
[People]Ben-ammi was the son born to Lot by his younger daughter. He is named in Genesis 19 and is recorded as the ancestor of the Ammonites, a people neighboring Israel.
Tirhakah
[People]Tirhakah was a king of Cush (the Nubian region of the upper Nile) mentioned in 2 Kings 19 and Isaiah 37. He appears only in a report that he had come out to fight against Assyria when the Assyrian king Sennacherib attacked Judah.
Illyricum
[Bible]Illyricum was a Roman province on the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea. In Romans 15:19, Paul names it as the outer limit of the region in which he had preached the gospel.
Zebadiah (son of Ishmael)
[People]Zebadiah, the son of Ishmael and ruler of the house of Judah, lived during the reign of King Jehoshaphat of Judah. When the king established a judicial system in Jerusalem, Zebadiah was placed over "all the king's matters" (2 Chronicles 19:11).