Susie Kim
MDiv, 2021
I chose Wycliffe for all the wrong reasons: its affordability and its proximity to home, which were the only things I knew about it when I chose it. I now see that it was, in fact, God’s choice for me—for its theology and community.
Born in Seoul, South Korea, I moved to Toronto when I was nine. I completed a Bachelor's degree in philosophy and literature at Harvard and spent most of my early twenties as a barista.
I started Wycliffe with strong academic interests and got to explore these plenty, learning Greek and taking advanced degree level courses in both theology and biblical studies. I wrote a thesis relating Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and T. S. Eliot's The Hollow Men to pandemic church. I tried hard not to have ministry interests, but the experience of working as a sacristan at Wycliffe's chapel and the guidance of my academic advisor led me to acquiesce to God's call to ministry of some form. After a few more months off (it turns out it's rewarding but exhausting to be formed in the image of Christ!), I will be taking up a halftime role in Hamilton with the [Anglican] Diocese of Niagara doing missional ministry, which I would have never imagined doing before my formation at Wycliffe. It will leave me time to read and write and continue to pursue my academic interests.
Jesus met me again at Wycliffe even though I had been determined to leave having only studied him from afar. Wycliffe is so full of people—professors, students, staff—who embody the love of God that it was impossible for me not to fall in love with God too.
