Michel Sun Lee

historian of religion in the americas (esp. sacred time-keeping 📆🌞), PhD Religious Studies / alum @RSUTAustin @Stanford

[Michel Sun Lee @michelsunlee]

@neulsaem Bummer! Next time 🥲

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

It's time to remove laptops from classrooms.

24 experiments: Students learn more and get better grades after taking notes by hand than typing. It's not just because they're less distracted—writing enables deeper processing and more images.

The pen is mightier than the keyboard.

[Oded Rechavi @OdedRechavi]

Fwd: Fwd: “I hope this email finds you well”

[J.S. Park 박준 @jsparkblog]

Please take this from me, a hospital chaplain who has sat with hundreds of deathbeds in the last ten years:

In the end,
we really only have each other.
And we really only have
a breath
and then we’re gone.

Life is as fast
as a spoken word,
so be gentle.

[Michel Sun Lee @michelsunlee]

This city is a turn of the century dream.

[Michel Sun Lee @michelsunlee]

@JenniferJillS @FlyFrontier You have my sympathy. Travel is hard enough even when it’s going smoothly. @FlyFrontier, make it right!

[Church Curmudgeon @ChrchCurmudgeon]

These ethical guidelines work for me:

So Joshua burned Ai and made it a heap forever, a desolation until this day. He hanged the king of Ai on a tree until evening.

— Joshua 8:28-29a

[Michel Sun Lee @michelsunlee]

Happy (?) centennial to the Scopes Trial, which happened right here in Dayton, TN.

[Michel Sun Lee @michelsunlee]

@JenniferJillS He clearly came down on the wrong side. It’s not one of those subtle situations IMHO. But certainly a very sad one.

[Michel Sun Lee @michelsunlee]

It’s hard to believe that charismatic, likable people can enable abuse. But the recent death of a prominent evangelical leader w/a storied ministry reminds of just that. Abuse wouldn’t be the issue it is if it were stark & blatant. It thrives at the margins of the unbelievable.

[Michel Sun Lee @michelsunlee]

@djbtrim @AdventArchives One of the most valuable and educational parts of session, if you ask me. Your stats today gave me a lot to think about. Curious how trends reflect the addition of first gen believers vs. general decline in adherence to unique doctrines.

[Michel Sun Lee @michelsunlee]

One of the highlights of the Adventist #GCSession2025 has been watching fellow historian @djbtrim give reports about the important research @AdventArchives conducts about the state of the denomination. Informative, sometimes shocking, and inspiring.

[Michel Sun Lee @michelsunlee]

And if you’re on site, check out the massive historical timeline that Ashlee Chism (also of @AdventArchives) created for the event, which features some Adventist women. I’m having FOMO just thinking about it. #GCSession2025

[Michel Sun Lee @michelsunlee]

A wonderful moment at today’s Adventist #GCSession2025 when the morning speaker called for unity. It was kind of what my soul needed to hear in these polarized and contentious times.

[Michel Sun Lee @michelsunlee]

The current Adventist #GCSession2025 proceedings have felt interesting at times and exceedingly dull at others. And this is all par for the course—spend any time in the archives reading 19th c. Christian committee minutes and nothing about this week should shock you!

[Michel Sun Lee @michelsunlee]

The Associate Secretary responds, emphasizing the importance of the local church adhering to due process. #GCSession2025

[Michel Sun Lee @michelsunlee]

Two female delegates on the Adventist #GCSession2025 floor raise the issue of preventing abusive members from transferring membership between churches.

[Michel Sun Lee @michelsunlee]

This election seems to be a reflection of where Adventism and Christianity are growing fastest, outside of North America and Europe. Adventism in Brazil is its own phenomenon, too. #GCSession2025

[Michel Sun Lee @michelsunlee]

Yesterday, delegates at #GCSession2025 elected the Adventist Church’s first Brazilian president. It is probably appropriate to call him the first Latin American president, though Robert Folkenberg (1990-1999) was born in Puerto Rico.