Table of Contents (Full)

Preface

Introduction: Getting to Kwangju

Chapter 1: Kwangju, Bright City   光 州

•   “Birthplace of Our Democracy”

•   A Captivating Place: It won’t let you go.

•      The “Calling”

•      A War After a War After a War

Chapter 2: A Bright City in a Wicked World

•      A Peerless Mountain in a Peerless City and Country

•      A two-thousand-year-old walled city and a royal magistrate

•      Economic trouble, but light on the horizon

Chapter 3:   Forward and Backward in Time on the KTX Express

•      Stuck in a Smoky Tunnel

•      Competition and risk taking, early clues to success

•      Getting to or leaving Kwangju

Chapter 4: The Mission, “to the Ends of the Earth”

•       “Southern” but Korean or American?

•       US—Megooksadam (Americans)

•       Presbyterian Elders

•       Mission, the Ends of the Earth

•       The Kwangju Station, a node in the Mission’s Korea Network

Chapter 5:  T Brown's Café, the Beach and other Interludes

•       Our Burned Old and New Houses

•       Our Backyard with Skeletons

•       Schools, in and far away from Kwangju

•       Korea Christian Academy, KCA

Chapter 6: Mokpo, Coming to Kwangju by a Better Way

Chapter 7: Family History, To the Ends of the Earth

Chapter 8: Economics and change in Kwangju

Chapter 9:  Korea, At “Elbows Length”

•       A Solemn Cemetery Visit

•       The Vortex of Korean Politics

Chapter 10: Leaving Korea; but going back again and again.

Epilog: Outside, Looking In, from Northern Virginia