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Mihee Kim-Kort

A scholar of American religions exploring gender and race in the U.S. with an emphasis on Asian American cultural productions and transpacific Christianities.

Mihee Kim-Kort is a Presbyterian minister, agitator, speaker, writer, and slinger of hopeful stories about faith and church. Her writing and commentary can be found in the New York Times, TIME, BBC World Service, USA Today, Huffington Post, Christian Century, On Being, Sojourners, Faith and Leadership, The Revealer, and Religion Dispatches. (Links to some of her work can be found here.) In 2021, she was named one of Center for American Progress’s “21 Faith Leaders to watch.” She is co-pastor with her spouse of First Presbyterian Church in Annapolis, MD and a doctoral candidate in Religious Studies at Indiana University.  She is the author of two books: Making Paper Cranes: Toward and Asian American Feminine Theology and Outside the Lines: How Embracing Queerness Will Transform Your Faith.

Previous Lyons Lecture presenters include:

2024 Sam Dzobo & Glenna Jackson
2023 Wonhee Anne Joh
2022 Canceled
2021 David Galston
2020 Canceled
2019 Brian McLaren
2018 J. Kameron Carter
2017 Robin Meyers
2016 Diana Eck
2015 Hal Taussig
2014 Jennifer Knust
2013 Pamela Eisenbaum
2012 John Dominic Crossan
2011 Emily Townes
2010 John Shelby Spong
2009 Mahmoud Ayoub
2008 Marcus Borg
2007 James Forbes
2006 Karen Armstrong
2005 Elaine Pagels
2004 John Dominic Crossan

The Lyons Lecture series was begun to encourage sharing of non-traditional thought and research into ways of seeing and knowing God outside the parameters established by traditional theology. Since its inception the Lyons Lecture has welcomed many provocative and insightful academics, authors, and clerics to challenge and inspire us with thought-provoking presentations. Today, Lyons Lectures continue this mission by examining both academic and pragmatic aspects of lives of faith, thus honoring the life and ministry of Rev David P Lyons.
Contributions to the Lyons Lecture or Endowment can be made here.