The Dark Triad and the Death of Repentance

January 8th, 2026 | 4 min read

It begins in the pulpit—or perhaps, if we are honest, it begins in ourselves. I have seen it in churches, in leaders I once admired, and at times in the mirror: the inability to say, “I was wrong.”

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Jakob Y. Kim

Jakob Y. Kim is a researcher and writer based in Seoul whose work explores faith, embodiment, and moral imagination in the modern world, often at the intersection of theology, psychology, and lived Christian experience. His essays trace questions of repentance, prayer, and moral responsibility within the life of the church. Past and forthcoming work can be found on his ORCID page (https://orcid.org/0009-0000-6557-6383).

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