Soong-Chan Rah joined Fuller Theological Seminary’s faculty in 2021 as the Robert Boyd Munger professor of evangelism. Prior to his appointment at Fuller, Rah served as the Milton B. Engebretson professor of church growth and evangelism at North Park Theological Seminary.
He holds a doctorate in theology from Duke Divinity School, with a primary field of study in theology and ethics and a secondary field of study in American evangelical history. He also holds a master of divinity and a doctorate of ministry with a concentration in urban ministry leadership, from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, as well as a master’s in theology from Harvard University, with a thesis on the immigrant church.
Rah has authored or coauthored over a half dozen, and many award-winning, books including The Next Evangelicalism: Freeing the Church from Western Cultural Captivity , Many Colors: Cultural Intelligence for a Changing Church, Prophetic Lament: A Call for Justice in Troubled Times , Return to Justice: Six Movements that Reignited Our Contemporary Evangelical Conscience , Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery , and Forgive Us: Confessions of a Compromised Faith.
He is an ordained pastor in the Evangelical Covenant Church, and a member of the Academy for Evangelism in Theological Education, American Academy of Religion, and American Society of Missiology. He has spoken widely on the topics of the witness of the church, cross-cultural ministry, and social justice at academic conferences, seminaries, Christian colleges, local churches, denominational gatherings, and ministry conferences on both the domestic and global level.
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The Idolatry of Security (Part 2)
[Continued from part 1] More reflections from the North Park Theological Seminary's Scripture Symposium on "The Idolatry of Security."