Principal
Timothy Eaton Memorial Church Professor of Preaching
MDIV Hanshin Graduate School of Theology, Hanshin University
ThD Emmanuel College, University of Toronto
Contact
Email: hyeran.kimcragg@utoronto.ca
Teaching & Research Interests
Committed to an interdisciplinary approach to homiletics in practical theology, her teaching and research address various topics related to biblical interpretation, postcolonial theories, feminist homiletics and liturgy, migration, and decolonizing practices. Her current research is involved in intercultural preaching, as this intersects with race, gender, and multiple identities of the preacher and the congregations. She is particularly interested in language (verbal and non-verbal) issues for preaching as a communicative event. As a recipient of The Rowntree Scholarship at The United Church of Canada Foundation (2019), she will undertake her research project on Preaching and Intercultural Ministry in the United Church of Canada for the next three years.
Selected Publications
Books
Postcolonial Preaching: Creating a Ripple Effect (Lexington, 2021)
Interdependence: A Postcolonial Feminist Practical Theology (Pickwick 2018)
Story and Song: A Postcolonial Interplay between Christian Education (Peter Lang 2012)
Mission and Migration: The Changing Mission Goals of The United Church of Canada and the
Mission of Koreans Within It (Daeganggan, 2019) (coauthor with Don Schweitzer)
What Does the Bible Say? In Conversation with Popular Culture (Cascade 2017) (coauthor with
Mary Ann Beavis)
2 Thessalonians: Wisdom Commentary (Liturgical Press 2016) (coauthor with Mary Ann Beavis)
The Authority and Interpretation of Scripture in The United Church of Canada (Daeganggan
2016) (coauthor with Don Schweitzer)
Hebrews: Wisdom Commentary (Liturgical Press 2015) (coauthor with Mary Ann Beavis):
A book award by the Catholic Press Association 2016
The Encounters: Retelling the Bible from Migration and Intercultural Perspectives (Daeganggan
2013) (coauthor with EunYoung Choi)
Religion and Migration: Negotiating Hospitality, Vulnerability and Agency (EVA 2019)
(coedited with Andrea Bieler, Isolde Karle and Ilona Nord)
Reading In Between (Pickwick 2019) (coedited with Néstor Medina and Alison Hari-Singh)
Selected Articles and Book Chapters
“Preaching in a Post-Truth Era: Its Critical Task.” International Journal for Homiletics. 4
(2020).
“Unfinished and Unfolding Tasks of Preaching: Interdisciplinary, Intercultural, and
Interreligious Approaches in the Postcolonial Context of Migration,” Homiletic: The
Journal of the Academy of Homiletics 44:2 (2019): 4-17.
"Home, Hospitality, and Preaching: A Need for the Homiletical Engagement of Migration." In
Migration and Religion: Negotiating Sites of Hospitality, Resistance, and Vulnerability.
Andrea Bieler, Isolde Karle, HyeRan Kim-Cragg, and Ilona Nord, eds., 233-245 Leipzig:
Eva, 2019.
"Sacred Texts / Holy Scriptures / Religion and Literature." In International Handbook of
Practical Theology: A Transcultural and Transreligious Approach, Birgit Weyel,
Wilhelm Gräb, Emmanuel Y. Lartey, Cas Wepener, eds. Berlin: De Gruyter,
forthcoming.
"Probing the Pulpit in Postcolonial Feminist Perspectives." Liturgy Vol. 34:2 (2019): 22-30.
"The Emperor Has No Clothes!: Exposing Whiteness as Explicit, Implicit, and Null Curricula."
Religious Education 114:3 (2019): 239-251.
"Inter-Positioning: A Korean-Canadian Homiletical Theologian's Reading of the Story of
Jephthah's Daughter." In Reading In-Between: How Minoritized Cultural Communities
Interpret the Bible in Canada, 52-66. Néstor Medina, Alison Hari-Singh, and HyeRan
Kim-Cragg, eds. Eugene: Pickwick, 2019.
"What are People For? In Christian Life, Discipleship and Ministry." In The Theology of The
United Church of Canada, 203-222. Don Schweitzer, Rob Fennell, and Michael
Bourgeois, eds. Waterloo: Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2019.
"A Postcolonial Portrait of Migrants as Vulnerable and Resistant." Practical Matters: A Journal
of Religious Practices and Practical Theology Vol. 11 (Spring 2018).
"Motherhood as Self-Giving and Self-Receiving Relationship" in Parenting as Spiritual Practice
and Source for Theology: Mothering Matters, Claire Bischoff, Elizabeth Gandolfo, Annie
Hardison-Moody, eds. 133-153. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
"Through Senses and Sharing: How Liturgy Meets Food." Liturgy 32:2 (2017): 34-41.
"Postcolonial Practice on Eucharist," in Postcolonial Practice of Ministry. Kwok Pui-Lan and
Stephen Burns, eds. 77-89. Lanham: Lexington, 2016.
"Baptism as Crossing beyond Belonging?" in Liturgy in Postcolonial Perspectives: Only One is
Holy, Cláudio Carvalhaes, ed. 201-211. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
"Liturgy in Migration and Migrants in Liturgy." Co-written with Stephen Burns in The Church in
an Age of Global Migration: A Moving Body. Susanna Snyder, Joshua Ralston, Agnes
- Brazal, eds., 113-130. New York: Palgrave, 2015.
"Turning to the Other: Interdenominational, Interethnic, Interreligious, Transnational Activism
and A New Ecclesia." Co-written with Mai-Anh Tran in Complex Identities in a Shifting
World: Practical Theological Perspectives, Pamela Couture, Robert Mager, Pamela R.
McCarroll, and Natalie Wigg, eds. 127-138. Berlin: LIT Verlag, 2015.
Selected Courses
EMP 1301 Introduction to Homiletics
EMP 5307 Critical Issues in Preaching: Postmodern and Postcolonial Approaches
EMP 3353/6353 Anti-Racist Preaching and Community Engagement
EMP 1431 Introduction to Faith Formation and Christian Education
Ecclesial Affiliations
She is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church in the Republic of Korea (PROK) and has served in pastoral, teaching, and intercultural leadership capacities with the United Church of Canada for the past twenty years.
Memberships
North American Academy of Homiletics
North American Academy of Liturgy
International Academy of Practical Theology
Religious Education Association
Other Information
Dean of Global Institute of Theology, the World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC)
Co-Moderator of Theology Reference Group for the WCRC
Member of the Forum for Intercultural Leadership and Learning (FILL) of the Canadian Council of Churches (CCC)