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• Jeremiah 9

  Jeremiah 9 is a chapter in which the prophet and the LORD lament over Judah, a nation filled with deceit and idolatry, and pronounce judgment upon it. It contains the exhortation not to glory in wisdom, might, or riches, but to glory in knowing the LORD (verses 23–24).

• Lamentations 1

  Lamentations 1 is a lament that portrays fallen Jerusalem as a widow left alone and mourns her devastation. Its 22 verses follow the order of the Hebrew alphabet, and the chapter confesses that the suffering came because of the people's sin.

• Psalm 44

  Psalm 44 is a song of the sons of Korah. In this lament, the community recalls God's deliverance in the days of their fathers and then cries out "Awake" because it has suffered defeat and shame despite keeping the covenant.

• Isaiah 61

  Isaiah 61 is a chapter in which one anointed by the Spirit of the LORD proclaims liberty and "the acceptable year of the LORD" to the poor and the captives, and celebrates the restoration of Zion and an everlasting covenant.

• Zechariah 12:10

  A prophecy in which God promises to pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication, so that they look on the one they pierced and mourn. Because the New Testament cites it in connection with the crucifixion and second coming of Jesus, it is frequently discussed as a messianic prophecy.

• Shulamite Woman

  The Shulamite woman is the woman called "the Shulamite" in the Old Testament book of the Song of Songs. She is commonly understood to be the female speaker who exchanges songs of love with her beloved in the book.

• Son Jeong-do

  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.

• Paik Nak-chun

  Paik Nak-chun (白樂濬, 1895–1985) was a Korean church historian, educator, and politician. He wrote his doctoral dissertation in English, later published in Korean as *Hanguk Gaesingyosa* (History of Korean Protestantism), and served as president of Yonhi University, as the second Minister of Education, and as Speaker of the House of Councillors.

• Edith Schaeffer

  Edith Schaeffer (1914–2013) was an American missionary and Christian author. With her husband, Francis Schaeffer, she founded the L'Abri community in Switzerland in 1955.

• Lamentations 3

  Lamentations 3 is a sixty-six-verse lament in which an individual speaker, "I," mourns the suffering endured under God's wrath and then regains hope by remembering the LORD's mercy and faithfulness.

• Lamentations 3:19–26

  Lamentations 3:19–26 is the passage in which a speaker, despairing as he remembers the suffering of Jerusalem's destruction, recalls the mercies and faithfulness of the LORD and turns toward hope. Because of its words "They are new every morning," it is often cited as a text of comfort and for New Year's meditation.

• 1977 National Evangelization Crusade

  The 1977 National Evangelization Crusade was an interdenominational Protestant mass evangelistic rally held in the summer of 1977 at Yeouido Plaza in Seoul. It is known as a large united gathering that the Korean church prepared and led on its own, without foreign speakers.

• Helen Thompson Sunday

  Helen Thompson Sunday (1868–1957) was an American evangelist. As the wife of the revivalist Billy Sunday, she organized his large-scale evangelistic campaigns, and after his death she became an evangelistic speaker in her own right.

• Josh McDowell

  Josh McDowell (born 1939) is an American evangelical Christian apologist and evangelist. He became widely known through his 1972 book Evidence That Demands a Verdict and lectured at universities around the world as a speaker with Campus Crusade for Christ.

• Acts of the Apostles

  The Acts of the Apostles is the fifth book of the New Testament. It records how, after the ascension of Jesus Christ and with the coming of the Holy Spirit, the church began in Jerusalem and spread as far as Rome.

• The Sabbath and the Lord's Day

  A discussion of whether Christians should observe the seventh-day (Saturday) Sabbath or the first-day (Sunday) Lord's Day, and whether the Lord's Day should be kept in the manner of the Old Testament Sabbath.

• Homosexuality and the Church

  The question of how the church should respond to homosexuality, same-sex marriage, and LGBTQ church members and clergy. Most Korean denominations hold the traditional position that homosexuality is sin, and the issue is closely intertwined with the debate over enacting an anti-discrimination law.

• The Church and Politics

  The question of how the church and individual Christians should engage in politics. Views differ on the meaning of the separation of church and state, the boundary between preaching and political speech, and the proper forms of the church's social engagement.

• The March First Movement and Christianity

  The March First Movement and Christianity examines the role Protestantism played in the March First Movement of 1919. Protestants accounted for 16 of the 33 National Representatives, and churches and Christian schools served as bases from which the independence demonstrations spread across the country.

• Schisms in the Korean Presbyterian Church

  The schisms in the Korean Presbyterian Church were the divisions of the once-unified Presbyterian Church in Korea during the 1950s into the Kosin, Kijang, Tonghap, and Hapdong bodies over the handling of Shinto shrine worship, views of Scripture, and membership in the World Council of Churches (WCC). Further divisions into numerous denominations followed.