Meaningful Connections in My Long Journey between a Pine Grove of Songki-ri and the Bank of the Siuslaw River

Download or read book Meaningful Connections in My Long Journey between a Pine Grove of Songki-ri and the Bank of the Siuslaw River written by Song-nai Rhee and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2023-01-10 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Song-nai Rhee’s personal memoirs of an eighty-seven-year-long life between a pine grove of Songki-riin, Korea and the bank of the Siuslaw River on the West Coast, covering his early life during World War II; his existential crisis during the Korean War; his life transformation from Confucian to Christian; coming to America and Northwest Christian College; his formal education in America (resulting in two bachelors, four masters, and two PhD degrees); thirty-seven years of professional service at NCC (now Bushnell University) as a professor of history, Bible, and archaeology, as well as academic vice president/dean; and as a father, grandfather, and writer/publisher, retiring as a farmer/fisherman on the bank of the Siuslaw River. Most of all, this book is about the people, beginning with Bill Peterson in a war zone, who helped make all this and Rhee’s life possible—the meaningful connections.