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Rev. Dr. Peter Choi preaches from 1 Kings 19:1-9a

Bak, Choi, Rogers - Transcript2023 Won COPA America Mixed 4x2022 Bronze at Beach Sprint Worlds for Mixed 4x 2021 Tokyo Paralympic PR3 Mixed 4+ AlternateChris Bak 2021 Portugal-1x 8th BS2022 wales 1x gold 4x bronze BS2023 Barletta- 1x 8th BS 1x silver ENDURO 2x gold ENDURO2024 Genoa- 1x gold Kory Rogers 4x coastal national team 2x world champion, youngest in 2023 senior level worlds 1x bronze medalist Bali continental qualifier USOPC (Olympic committee event)Host, Napoleon Griffin: Alright, welcome back! We're at the Head of the Charles Regatta, 2024, day three. I'm pleased to have my last guests with me. I'd like them to introduce themselves, going from left to right."Hey guys, my name is Kory Rogers.""I'm Chris Bak, nice to meet you.""And I'm Peter Choi, nice to meet you."Alright, thank you all. So, we're here at a rowing event on the water, but you guys aren't doing what most people think of when they think of rowing. What do you do?"We all do coastal rowing. Peter's our coxswain."For those who don't know what coastal rowing is, can you explain it?"Coastal rowing is a really dynamic side of the sport. In traditional flat water rowing, you see more 2k or 5k races, like here at the Head of the Charles. For coastal, we do have 4k and 6k racing, which is on the endurance side. But we also have a cool type of racing called beach sprints, which is now in the 2028 Olympics. It's a 500-meter format with some slalom. It's a much shorter, more dynamic race out on the open ocean."Now, having lived in Puerto Rico, I know coastal rowing takes place in the ocean, and I'm not a fan of that! Flipping is not an option, considering you have things waiting for you in the water. You could become a snack if you don't do well! So, talk about how the race starts before you actually get in the boat. For those who are not aware of coastal rowing, they might think you have stake boats like you would in a regular flat water race, but that's not the case. So how is it set up?Types of Coastal Rowing"Good question. There are actually two different types of coastal rowing. The Olympic discipline for LA that Chris mentioned is called beach sprints. If you're in a smaller boat, a single or a double, one of the athletes starts at the archway at the starting line. There's a rope on the sand, and when the buzzer goes off, you sprint anywhere from 50 to 80 meters. In the case of a quad, it'd be the coxswain who sprints. Then you have to jump into the boat and slalom around three buoys and then make your way back. The bow person jumps out and then has to go back to the start line and hit a big red button. It's very action-packed. I like to say it's kind of like the BMX to mountain biking, or the velodrome to rough and tumble cycling.For the Coastal World Championships, the long-distance event, there are variations, but the one I've seen the most is usually a cluster of people kind of waiting, and there's three balls that designate one-minute starting times. So three balls means three minutes. One drops, the second one drops, the last one drops, and then the buzzer goes, and then there really are no lanes. It's like head racing without the stagger. So 20 to 40 boats all kind of converge towards that first buoy. There's a lot of contact.""When people say rowing's not a contact sport, they're not thinking about coastal rowing!"That's interesting. So, I would presume, coming from the world of track and field, you're not going to put your slowest runner at the bow of your boat. If you have a tight race, and your bow person can outrun the other bow person, you can move from bronze to gold, out of medal contention to being a gold medalist, just based on the run. So do you ever actually have races to figure out who's the fastest?So, what happened in 2023?Bak: "Oh yeah, yeah. In the endurance side... I'll let Kory talk about what happened in 2023.""Chris and I did the double for the endurance race. We surprised ourselves leading the race for the first 3k, maybe even 4k. It was a 6k race. The person who was bowing, which was me, got confused because there were two buoys that looked very similar, and I went the wrong way. Thank God we had a built-up lead of maybe about a hundred meters or so. Chris starts looking over at second place, third place, fourth place, and they all start going somewhere else. I'm like, 'Nah, don't even worry about it, they're going the wrong way, let me steer.' And in the end, I was wrong! So we had to cut over really fast. Thank God we were still in front at the turn, but I mean, I probably added like 20, 30 seconds of extra sprint that we did not need to do. All of our built-up cushion was gone. We get passed in the last 150 meters of the row coming into the beach. We're down maybe two, two and a half boat lengths. And I'm like, 'Man, screw this, I'm getting out of the boat.' I jump out early and I beat the Swedish guy running. So a 27-minute race came down to the last second.""He was a big man, huge. Probably 6'6", 220.""Esco, if you're watching, we love you man. You're a crazy guy, hats off to you."I remember seeing that. So, talk about the 500-meter course because some people are not, including myself, as familiar with it. How does it work?"Imagine you're on any pristine, nice beach. You take where the water is coming in from, subtract about 50 to 80 meters, and that's where your start line is going to be. Then you have two flags. Sometimes they have you run around the flag, sometimes they don't, it just depends on the race. You pretty much learn that race day. The reason for that is it can change based off of the tide and conditions. There are three buoys, each placed about 60 to 80 meters apart. You sprint to the boat from the beach, you hit the water, you have to figure out where the boat is, where the oars are. There is a unique position in coastal rowing, in the beach sprint format, of boat handlers. In the past, we've had teammates, coaches, even random people off the side of the street or on the beach come in and hold our boats for us so they don't flop all over the place.After you enter the boat, you're racing towards the first buoy. The first buoy is going to be off your port side. You have to pass the second buoy on your starboard side. At the very end, which is about 250 meters out from the beach, there is a turn buoy. So you have to do a 180-degree turn and then you race straight back to the beach as fast as you can. You jump out of the boat, sprint back onto the beach, run around the flag, and then eventually hit the buzzer."The cox's perspectiveFrom a coxswain's perspective, is it different in beach sprints or coastal rowing than it would be on flat water, doing a 2k or even a 5k here at the Charles?"Yeah, definitely. I would just say it's a different shell. It's so much heavier. It's like 400 pounds, maybe even heavier. That's not the same as what you would normally row on the river. Even though it's heavy, it's made to withstand those crazy waves and conditions. Mother Nature is not a battle you can win against, it's someone you have to adapt to. It's like, are there waves coming? Is there wind coming? You have to make quick adjustments. There's no time for, 'On two, let's do this,' because the race is a little bit over two minutes.The other thing that's interesting is that because it's ...

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REV. DR. PETER CHOI Isaiah 40:1-11, 27-31 Rev. Peter Choi reflects on Isaiah 40, describing hope as a surprising and abrupt concept. Despite life's challenges and ongoing crises, the Advent message is centered around finding hope in the past coming of Jesus and the anticipation of his future return. Rev. Choi invites listeners to consider hope in the midst of difficulties, acknowledging the harsh realities of life while emphasizing the solace found in Jesus' promise. The focus is on living in hope and remembering the source and way of hope revealed through Christ Jesus.

Fr. Peter Choi

Fr. Peter Choi

Fr. Peter Choi

Rev. Dr. Peter Choi invites us into Psalm 73 and explores how Psalms of “disorientation” give us permission to shake our fists with the best of God's people and be reminded that sometimes the most faithful response is the most honest response. Follow City Church San Francisco: Instagram: ⁠https://instagram.com/citychurchsf⁠ Facebook: ⁠https://facebook.com/citychurchsf⁠ Twitter: ⁠https://twitter.com/citychurchsf⁠ Website: ⁠https://www.citychurchsf.org⁠

Fr. Peter Choi

Rev. Dr. Peter Choi wraps up our #AAPIHeritageMonth series, "Table Manners" by preaching a sermon from Acts 6:1-7 on Jesus' vision of table fellowship as one of radical inclusion and belonging. Follow City Church San Francisco:  Instagram: ⁠https://instagram.com/citychurchsf⁠ Facebook: ⁠https://facebook.com/citychurchsf⁠  Twitter: ⁠https://twitter.com/citychurchsf⁠ Website: ⁠https://www.citychurchsf.org⁠

Peter Choi '17 came to SPU as an international student from Korea to study journalism. His career took off immediately after graduation, working as an international correspondent for the Korean National News during the pandemic, which left Peter and his new wife quarantining on opposite sides of the globe. They were recently reunited when Peter became a local multimedia reporter for KXLY in Spokane. 

Rev. Dr. Peter Choi begins our new Eastertide Series, "Life After Life After Death: An Eastertide Sermon Series Based on the Four Gospel Endings." We begin in the Gospel of Mark 16:1-8. Follow City Church San Francisco:Instagram: https://instagram.com/citychurchsfFacebook: https://facebook.com/citychurchsfTwitter: https://twitter.com/citychurchsfWebsite: https://www.citychurchsf.org To fill out a connect card or sign up for any of our upcoming events visit: https://linktr.ee/citychurchsf You can make a one-time of recurring gift to support the work of City Church at: www.citychurchsf.org/give

Krispin and DL interview Peter Choi about DC Talk's song “Colored People.” Peter Choi is the Director of the Center for Faith and Justice (that DL and Krispin are a facilitators for!). Peter's also a historian with a focus on evangelicalism in eighteenth-century North America. During our conversation, Peter recommends Delores Williams, Shoki Coe, James Cone, and Cole Arthur Riley. He also mentions Henry McNeil Turner.  We have a website—check it out for more information. You can also find us on Twitter and Instagram. To support our show (we can't do this without you!), join us on Patreon! You'll get access to our monthly patron-only episodes (including the entire backlog), as well as occasional zoom hangouts. You can join this community for as little as $1.50 a month!

Peter Choi's talk from the Post Evangelical Collective 2022 in Denver, CO. Jonathan Merritt closes out our time together with Eucharist

Peter Choi is Director of the Center for Faith and Justice, Associate Professor of American Christianity, and a member of the Core Doctoral Faculty at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. He spends some time talking to us about the way evangelicalism is understood and defined, the dynamism of our faith, and the way we engage the Scriptures and a faith that is always reforming.  Find the Center for Faith and Justice HERE, on Instagram and on Facebook And find Peter at this year's Post Evangelical Collective in Denver

The Faith and Justice Podcast is back! In this opening episode for fall 2022, D.L. Mayfield, Liz Lin, and Peter Choi talk about the past, present, and future work of our community. D.L. and Peter fill us in on why the podcast ended so abruptly last season. And then they settle into a time of reflecting on what it means for us to be a community of learning and belonging.  Links to things we talked about:  https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/673836/this-here-flesh-by-cole-arthur-riley/ (This Here Flesh) by Cole Arthur Riley  https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/653308/saving-grace-by-kirsten-powers/ (Saving Grace) by Kirsten Powers  https://faithjustice.net/denver (Register for our Fall Gathering in Denver) (Oct 7-9) The Faith & Justice Network is an online learning community pursuing a more beautiful, expansive, and liberating vision of Christian faith in the world. Learn more https://faithjustice.net/ (here).

Rev. Dr. Peter Choi continues our Summer Series, "Longer Tables, Shorter Walls", with a sermon from Acts 17 titled "Every Worshipper Belongs". To support the ongoing work of City Church you can give online at: www.citychurchsf.org/give or text "CCSF $" to 77977 or (833) 245-8442 and follow the prompts on the screen. All are welcomed, loved and affirmed (

Peter Choi talks with Julie Rodgers about money, power, and justice. They explore how money and power serve the status quo and perpetuate injustice, often in subtle and imperceptible ways. They also talk about moving from power hoarding to power sharing and conclude by reflecting on repentance as a vital step toward healing and justice.  A few resources mentioned; find the books at your favorite bookstore or library: Find Julie online: https://www.julierodgers.com/ (website) / https://twitter.com/Julie_rodgers (Twitter) / https://www.instagram.com/julie_rodgers/ (Instagram) / https://www.facebook.com/Julie.r.rodgers/ (Facebook) https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781506464046 (Outlove: A Queer Christian Survival Story) by Julie Rodgers https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780830845989 (The Myth Of The American Dream: Reflections on Affluence, Autonomy, Safety, and Power) by D.L. Mayfield http://www.devinsingh.com/blog/2016/1/21/debt-cancellation-as-sovereign-crisis-management (Debt Cancellation as Sovereign Crisis Management) by Devin Singh

D.L. Mayfield and Peter Choi talk about our theme for March: Gender, Sexuality, and Justice. They address the harmful effects of Christian patriarchy and the fallacy of the “two-thousand-years-of-church-history-can't-be-wrong” argument. Is there really such a thing as a timeless and monolithic Christian teaching on gender and sexuality? Is progressive Christianity truly free of patriarchal thinking? How do we overcome fears of the slippery slope? What does it look like to imagine new ways of being gendered? And how might we pursue this work together in community?  A few resources mentioned: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781587434709 (The Making of Biblical Womanhood) by Beth Allison Barr https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780062988782 (God Is A Black Woman) by Christena Cleveland D.L.'s forthcoming book on Dorothy Day: https://www.broadleafbooks.com/store/product/9781506473598/ (Unruly Saint) https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781626984455 (Resurrection Hope: A Future Where Black Lives Matter) by Kelly Brown Douglas https://www.google.com/books/edition/Public_Vows/Jnh7ylcLaB4C?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=nancy+cott+public+vows&printsec=frontcover (Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation) by Nancy F. Cott Marriage between Males by Craig Williams Become a Member! Participation in the Faith and Justice Network is available through a monthly or annual membership. If you want to join the conversation, we'd love to welcome you into our community! Learn more on our https://faithjustice.net/ (website).

D.L. Mayfield and Peter Choi talk about our month of focusing on race and justice, discussing new books by Kelly Brown Douglas and Lisa Sharon Harper as well as texts that have been around a while by authors like Willie James Jennings and Robert Allen Warrior. They discuss the recent trend of opinion pieces in the mainstream media expressing nostalgia for better versions of Christianity in the past. Topics range from supersessionism to confederate monuments to epistemological privilege––all features of white supremacy that require closer examination if we are going to work for justice. A few resources mentioned (get the books from your local bookstore, library, or wherever you get your books!): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075572/ (Roots) miniseries https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781626984455 (Resurrection Hope: A Future Where Black Lives Matter) by Kelly Brown Douglas https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781587435270 (Fortune) by Lisa Sharon Harper https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780300171365 (The Christian Imagination) by Willie James Jennings https://www.broadleafbooks.com/store/product/9781506473598/ (Unruly Saint: Dorothy Day's Radical Vision and its Challenge for Our Times) by D.L. Mayfield (releases November 2022) https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781506480374 (The God Who Riots) by Damon Garcia (releases August 2022) We also want to note that the Faith and Justice Network is now available through a monthly or annual membership. If you want to join the conversation, we'd love to welcome you into our community! Learn more on our https://faithjustice.net/ (website).

Rev. Dr. Peter Choi continues our Epiphany series, Experiencing Jesus, by looking at Jesus As Savior from John 4. All are welcomed, loved and affirmed (

Peter Choi and D.L. Mayfield talk about what it looks like to pursue faith in the midst of crumbling institutions, a controversial talk given by Christena Cleveland at one of our past conferences that we're focusing on this month on our platform, the perils of questioning religious authorities, and much more.  A few resources mentioned (get the books from your local bookstore, library, or wherever you get your books!): https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781626984455 (Resurrection Hope: A Future Where Black Lives Matter) by Kelly Brown Douglas https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781587435270 (Fortune) by Lisa Sharon Harper Christena Cleveland: https://www.christenacleveland.com/ (Website) / http://instagram.com/christenacleveland (Instagram) / https://twitter.com/CSCleve (Twitter) / https://www.facebook.com/drchristenacleveland/ (Facebook) Check out D.L.'s other podcast: https://www.propheticimaginationstation.com/ (Prophetic Imagination Station) We also want to note that the Faith and Justice Network is now available through a monthly or annual subscription, so if you want to join the conversation, we'd love to welcome you into our community! Learn more or subscribe at http://faithjustice.net (faithjustice.net). 

Peter Choi, D.L. Mayfield, and Riana Shaw Robinson talk about the outward journey, fumbling through Advent, their conflicted relationship with Christmas music, Rachel Held Evans' Wholehearted Faith, James Cone on Reinhold Niebuhr, the perils and promise of deconstruction, and the role of Jesus and the Bible in the midst of it all.  A few resources mentioned (get the books from your local bookstore, library, or wherever you get your books!): https://kelleynikondeha.com/books/ (Kelley Nikondeha) (who will be a podcast guest on the next episode!) https://www.reclaimingmytheology.com/product/rmt-advent-e-book-download/ (Reclaiming My Theology Advent Book) https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/646056/what-is-god-like-by-rachel-held-evans-and-matthew-paul-turner/ (What is God Like?) (and all of https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/82928/matthew-paul-turner/ (Matthew Paul Turner)'s children books) https://citychurchsf.org/Audio (D.L. and Kelley's sermon) (scroll down to March 7, 2021) https://jessicakantrowitz.com/ (Jessica Kantrowitz) (check out her website to find her on your favorite social media platform)

Peter Choi and D.L. Mayfield are joined by Krispin Mayfield to talk about the Inward Journey. They invite careful interrogation of both Billy Graham and Richard Rohr, encouraging reflection on approaches to spirituality we often take for granted. Krispin dives deep into an exploration of attachment science for understanding our relationship with God. They wrap up with a message of hope reflecting on, of all things, the story of Elijah after the fire and fury of Mt. Carmel.  A few resources mentioned: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780310363798 (Attached To God: A Practical Guide to Deeper Spiritual Experience) by Krispin Mayfield

Peter Choi and D.L. Mayfield talk about Anthea Butler's White Evangelical Racism, spiritual practices, and what they're reading and watching to gain perspective for the long journey of following Jesus.

Rev. Dr. Peter Choi, our scholar in residence and program director of the Faith and Justice Network, continues our Fall Sermon Series, "The 10% - Listening To The Woman of the Hebrew Bible" with a sermon on the Midwives from Exodus 1. All are welcomed, loved and affirmed (🌈) at City Church.  You can support the work of City Church at www.citychurchsf.org/give

Riana Shaw Robinson joins Peter Choi and D.L. Mayfield to talk about Unit 1: Starting Points. They talk about the impossible state of the world, the messy spirituality of the Psalter, Barbara Brown Taylor's An Altar in the World, Padraig O'Tuama's “Hello to Here,” and the endlessly various, challenging starting points we face at the beginning of the fellowship year. 

Peter Choi and D.L. Mayfield discuss Howard Thurman's Jesus and the Disinherited, the beginning of the Faith and Justice Fellowship, and the year ahead.

Week 4 of our Lenten Series, Again and Again: God's Holy Refrain, finds us in John 3:1-21.  Rev. Dr. Peter Choi unpacks this familiar text with a specific invitation to lean into uncertainty with courage and recognize that "it's ok not to understand how being born again happens or where it will lead us...(God) gives us the courage to tear it all down, to die to ourselves, that we might be born again." You can also catch up on this week's Lenten Practice of Walking with Jonathon Stalls in our podcast feed or at website. Join us live on Sundays at 10am PST.  All are welcome, fully affirmed and loved. www.citychurchsf.org

Jeremiah 29:1- | Rev. Dr. Peter Choi...

Lent Series: Wilderness | Exodus 17:1-7; John 4:4-7 | Rev. Dr. Peter Choi...

Sermon Series: Friendship With The City | Hebrews 11:8-16 | Rev. Dr. Peter Choi...

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Sermon Series: Friendship With God - John 4:1-26; 15:12-17 | Rev. Dr. Peter Choi...

Acts 16:1-15 | Rev. Dr. Peter Choi...

Acts 16:16-40 | Rev. Dr. Peter Choi...

Jeremiah 1:4-10, Luke 13:10-17 | Rev. Dr. Peter Choi...

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This week’s special guest is Peter Choi from Go-Jek. Go-Jek is the massively popular ride-hailing company from Indonesia - its first unicorn and recently announced that they will invest $500 million to expand their services into Southeast Asia. Peter is the VP, Head of Logistics at Go-Jek, responsible for product & business development, data analytics, and operations. Prior to this role, Peter worked as a Senior Analyst at Salesforce and made the big transition from Silicon Valley to now Jakarta. Together, we discuss how Peter is tackling one of the biggest pain points in Indonesia,  its logistics. And though started as an on-demand ridesharing platform, why it makes sense for Go-Jek to aggressively expand into other consumer businesses such as delivery, payment and even massages!

Hong Kong App creator Peter Choi stops by to talk about his binary option trading app Bullbear. #princedykes #wesleylearns Host: Prince Dykes Executive Producer: Prince Dykes, MBA

In this edition of Reporter’s Notebook, KCTS 9 intern Peter Choi talks about his recent personal essay about the Seattle Pacific University shooting and how the shooting shook his belief in America. Peter, an international student from South Korea, lost his close friend Paul Lee in the June 5, 2014 shooting. Lee was shot and killed by Aaron Ybarra, who opened fire on campus students. Ybarra was recently found guilty of premeditated first-degree murder and other charges related to the shooting. He had plead “not guilty by reason of insanity.” In this conversation with KCTS 9’s Enrique Cerna, Peter Choi talks about his friendship with Paul Lee and how writing the essay is helping him cope with his death, while giving him the chance to express his frustration with an American gun culture that he finds hard to understand.