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Timothy Isaiah Cho
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Chronicles of Deception

Within the span of 9 months —from August 2022 to May 2023 — the church we knew and loved was torn apart by the actions of our former pastor until it was ultimately dissolved. I shared parts about the story on social media and wanted to publish them together here…

Christianity

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Chronicles of Deception
Chronicles of Deception
Christianity

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Jun 25

Systemic Gaslighting, Systemic DARVO

In her book, Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? and Other Conversations About Race, Beverly Daniel Tatum provides a well-known metaphor for systemic racism as an airport terminal walkway: Because racism is ingrained in the fabric of American institutions, it is easily self-perpetuating. …

Darvo

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Systemic Gaslighting, Systemic DARVO
Systemic Gaslighting, Systemic DARVO
Darvo

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Mar 6

Tithes for the Poor and Vulnerable

In the Torah, God instructs his people to a life of generosity with three major tithes in the seven-year agricultural cycle. The first tithe (ma’aser rishon) required one tenth of agricultural produce to be given to the Levites every year after the giving of an offering (see Numbers 18:21–26). The…

Tithing

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Tithes for the Poor and Vulnerable
Tithes for the Poor and Vulnerable
Tithing

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Mar 2

Neutrality Can Be the Greatest Hindrance to Doing Justice

The following is from our church’s Racial Justice Reflections that are published monthly in our worship folder. In his famous “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” Martin Luther King, Jr. makes a surprising remark that the greatest barrier to the work of racial equity is not those who were outright opposed to…

Racial Justice

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Neutrality Can Be the Greatest Hindrance to Doing Justice
Neutrality Can Be the Greatest Hindrance to Doing Justice
Racial Justice

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Feb 11

Racial Colorblindness is Not a Biblical Value

The following is from our church’s Racial Justice Reflections that are published monthly in our worship folder. A commonly held idea for responding to the ugliness of racism, including within the church, is racial colorblindness, the idea that it is a virtue to ignore race. This can be seen in…

Racial Color Blindness

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Racial Colorblindness is Not a Biblical Value
Racial Colorblindness is Not a Biblical Value
Racial Color Blindness

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Dec 11, 2022

Intention and Impact from the Cities of Refuge

The following is from our church’s Racial Justice Reflections that are published monthly in our worship folder. In Numbers 35:6–34, Joshua 20, and Deuteronomy 19:1–13, we read about a peculiar instruction for God’s people to designate cities of refuge. Prior to the cities of refuge, if a person was killed…

Racial Justice

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Intention and Impact from the Cities of Refuge
Intention and Impact from the Cities of Refuge
Racial Justice

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Sep 1, 2022

Analogia Fidei and The Ordination of Women

The analogia fidei (“analogy of faith”) was an important Reformational principle of biblical interpretation that claimed, as attested by the Westminster Confession of Faith: The infallible rule of interpretation of Scripture is the Scripture itself: and therefore, when there is a question about the true and full sense of any…

Ordination

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Analogia Fidei and The Ordination of Women
Analogia Fidei and The Ordination of Women
Ordination

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Nov 19, 2021

A Family Song

Years ago, I helped teach an adult Sunday School class on the Apostles’ Creed. I shared this story that has been passed down in my family. Here is a lightly edited transcript of the story. I want to begin this class with a story about a family song. Some of…

Christianity

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A Family Song
A Family Song
Christianity

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Nov 1, 2021

When Presbyterian Congregations Owned Enslaved People

It is already a well-researched fact that Presbyterians in the United States individually owned enslaved people. What people may not know is that Presbyterian congregations as a body would also regularly own enslaved people, lease them out to others, and use these profits in order to fund endowments, pastors’ salaries…

Slavery

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When Presbyterian Congregations Owned Enslaved People
When Presbyterian Congregations Owned Enslaved People
Slavery

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Oct 26, 2021

A Proposal for Christian Anti-Racism in the PCA

In the summer of 2020, following the murder of George Floyd, I witnessed several churches in the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA), my own denomination, post statements of their support of anti-racism, provide suggested reading lists of anti-racist books, and even preach sermons on the Christian work of anti-racism. …

Christianity

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A Proposal for Christian Anti-Racism in the PCA
A Proposal for Christian Anti-Racism in the PCA
Christianity

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Timothy Isaiah Cho

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Associate Editor for Faithfully Magazine. https://faithfullymagazine.com/author/timothy-i-cho/

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