Prior to taking his current position at
Westminster Seminary California, Dr. Kim ministered in a variety
of ecclesiastical and academic settings. He has served in
Presbyterian Church in America churches in California and Illinois. His current church calling is as
Associate Pastor of New Life Presbyterian Church in
Escondido. Dr. Kim also continues to serve the broader
Christian community as a preacher, speaker, and ministry
consultant—especially for the Korean-American church. While in
Illinois, he taught undergraduate communications at
Trinity International University and church history at Trinity
Evangelical Divinity School. Following a brief tenure as
Visiting Scholar with the Faculty of Divinity at Cambridge
University, Dr. Kim returned to Southern California to serve
as Dean of Students and to teach practical theology at
WSC.
Dr. Kim also directs the Center for Pastoral
Refreshment at WSC, a unique institute dedicated to
helping sustain pastoral excellence among Korean-American
pastors. In addition to his doctoral concentration on
English church history during the Restoration, his research
interests include the history of preaching,
homiletics, and Asian-American Christianity. His goals are to
contribute both to the church and the academy through his
teaching,preaching, and writing. He is the author of
The
Religion of Reason and the Reason for Religion: John
Tillotson and the Latitudinarian Defense of Christianity,
1630–1694
and a contributor to
Covenant,
Justification, and Pastoral Ministry: Essays by the Faculty of
Westminster Seminary California and
Heralds of
the King: Christ-centered Sermons in the Tradition of Edmund P. Clowney. A native of South Korea and California, he
and his wife, Ji Hee, a WSC alumna, reside in Escondido
with their two daughters.
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