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William of Ockham
[People]William of Ockham (c. 1287–1347) was an English Franciscan friar. A leading philosopher and theologian of late medieval Scholasticism, he is widely known for nominalism and "Ockham's razor."
Sojourner Truth
[People]Sojourner Truth (c. 1797–1883) was an itinerant preacher born into slavery in New York State. She was a leading figure in the abolitionist and women's rights movements and is widely known for the speech she delivered at the 1851 Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio.
Psalm 58
[Bible]Psalm 58 is a Michtam of David, an eleven-verse psalm of lament that rebukes those who judge unjustly, asks God to break the power of the wicked, and confesses that there is a God who judges in the earth.
Baptistery
[Doctrine & Theology]A baptistery is a water tank or pool installed in a sanctuary or an adjoining church space for administering baptism by immersing the whole body in water. It is also called a baptismal pool.
Ezekiel 12
[Bible]Ezekiel 12 is a chapter of the Book of Ezekiel in which the prophet packs an exile's belongings and digs through a wall. This symbolic act foretells the captivity of Jerusalem's king and people. The chapter also refutes the people's proverb that the fulfillment of prophecy is delayed.
Hosea 3
[Bible]Hosea 3 is the chapter in which God commands Hosea to love an adulterous woman once more. Hosea buys the woman back at a price, and this act leads into a prophecy that Israel will live for many days without king or sacrifice but will at last return to the LORD.
2 Corinthians 3
[Bible]Second Corinthians 3 is the chapter in which Paul calls the Corinthian believers an "epistle of Christ" written on human hearts and, using the image of Moses' veil, compares the ministry of the old covenant engraved on tables of stone with the ministry of the new covenant carried out by the Spirit.
Buzi
[People]Buzi was the father of the prophet Ezekiel, an Old Testament figure named only once, in Ezekiel 1:3. He is understood to have belonged to a priestly family.
Eliadah
[People]Eliadah was the father of Rezon, who became an adversary of Israel during the reign of Solomon. He is a biblical figure named only once, in 1 Kings 11:23.
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.
William Whittingham
[People]William Whittingham (c. 1524–1579) was an English scholar and clergyman of Puritan sympathies. Exiled to Geneva under Mary I, he led the translation of the Geneva Bible and later served as Dean of Durham Cathedral.
Church Plant
[Organization & Polity]A church plant is a newly established church, founded in an area with no church or too few churches or directed toward a new group of people; the term also refers to the process of establishing such a church. In Korean Protestant usage, it commonly denotes a church in its early years with a small congregation and a limited financial base.
Song of Songs
[Bible]The Song of Songs is a poetic book of the Old Testament, an eight-chapter poem celebrating the love and longing between a man and a woman. In Judaism and Christianity it has also long been read as a figure of the love between God and his people and between Christ and the Church.
Hosea
[Bible]Hosea is a prophetic book of the Old Testament in which Hosea, an eighth-century BC prophet of the northern kingdom of Israel, uses his own marriage to portray idolatrous Israel and the love of God, who will not finally abandon His people.
Church Café
[Christian Life]A church café is a coffee shop that a church operates inside its sanctuary building or an auxiliary building. Its main purposes are to foster fellowship among members and to provide a place of contact with local residents.
Compassion Korea
[Institutions]Compassion Korea is the Korean branch of Compassion International, an international child development organization. Compassion first worked in Korea to help orphans of the Korean War, and its assistance there ended in 1993. Compassion Korea was established in 2003, when Korea became a sponsor country. It connects children in poor countries one-to-one with Korean sponsors.
CGNTV
[Institutions]CGN (Christian Global Network) is a Protestant mission broadcaster operated by the Onnuri Mission Foundation, an incorporated foundation established chiefly by Onnuri Church in Seoul, South Korea. It began broadcasting in 2005 as CGNTV. Its primary audiences are overseas missionaries and members of the Korean diaspora around the world.
Revelation 7:4
[Bible Verses]Revelation 7:4 states that the number of those sealed from all the tribes of Israel was "an hundred and forty and four thousand." Interpreters disagree over whether the number is a literal count or a symbol, and over whom it designates. Several heretical groups have also associated this number with their own organizations.
Deuteronomy 22:10
[Bible Verses]Deuteronomy 22:10 is a provision of the Mosaic law forbidding the plowing of a field with an ox and a donkey yoked together. It has been read as a law of care for animals and as a holiness law prohibiting mixtures. In Korean Protestant churches, it is frequently cited in discussions of marriage between believers and unbelievers.