Mihee Kim-Kort

AAEC Class of 2023 (Maryland; EST)

Mihee Kim-Kort, ThM ’08, MDiv ’04, is a Princeton Theological Seminary alum, and is co-pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Annapolis, Maryland along with her spouse Andrew Kort, MDiv, 2003. She is a 4th year doctoral student at Indiana University in religious studies and a teaching fellow at the Newbigin House of Studies. Previously, Kim-Kort has served as associate pastor for College Hill Presbyterian Church in Easton, Pennsylvania (2006-2011) and United Presbyterian Church in Flanders, New Jersey (2005-2006). She was director and co-founder of the UKirk Campus Ministry program at Indiana University from 2012-2017. She has written and published for various venues, including Time Magazine, Huffington Post, Christian Century, and Sojourners, and she is the author of Outside the Lines: How Embracing Queerness Will Transform Your Faith (Fortress Press, 2018) and co-author with Andrew of Yoked: Stories of a Clergy Couple in Marriage, Family, and Ministry (Rowman and Littlefield, 2014).  She has served the larger denomination (PC(USA)) as an elected commissioner member for the Synod of the Trinity (2008-2010), an elected member for the national board of the Presbyterian Mission Agency (2010-2016), and an executive committee member for the national board of the Presbyterian Mission Agency (2012-2016). She says: ”In all times, the Church, whether the local church or the seminary, gives me hope. I don’t understand it most days, this hope, how it comes from something that seems so fallible and imperfect, but I know that it is because God is present there in the places that I least expect, and always, in those places that are the most human. Princeton taught me to keep hoping, keep looking, and keep showing up, and that has stayed with me.”