Joanna Baradziej joins the Center as visiting researchers
Joanna Baradziej will be joining The Center for Global Christianity as a visiting researcher from the University of Bergen, Norway, for two months this summer. Joanna is currently doing research for her thesis on gender identity and female missionaries in Scotland and China. You can read more about Joanna and the Center’s other visiting researcher […]
Gina Zurlo Bellofatto gives video presentation in Bangalore
Student Gina Zurlo Bellofatto gave a presentation at the Global Leadership Forum in Bangalore, India this June, called “The State of the World.” The video of the presentation is available for all online at the Lausanne Movement website. Congratulations to Gina!
Highlights of the ASM meeting, Dr. Robert delivers key address
The American Society of Missiology (ASM) used its 40th annual meeting to consider the future of the discipline. Two hundred people attended, a forty percent increase over any previous ASM gathering. The sessions, June 21-23, were structured around four plenary presentations which acted as springboards for smaller organized conversations about the future of the society and the discipline of […]
Review of “Theology for the Global Church”
Student Travis Myers has reviewed a noteworthy book exploring theology and missiology, Local Theology for the Global Church: Principles for an Evangelical Approach to Contextualization. His review can be found in Missiology: An International Review 39, no. 3 (July 2011): 413-414.
Yale-Edinburgh Group meeting report by Daryl Ireland
The Yale-Edinburgh Group held its 23rd meeting in New Haven, Connecticut, June 27-29, 2013. The theme, “Health, Healing, and Medicine in the History of Christian Missions and World Christianity,” inspired diverse papers, ranging from an investigation of John Wesley’s medical advice to the use of herbal medicine in Ghanaian Christianity. The number of participants was […]
Dr. Fohle Lygunda visits the CGCM
The CGMC was delighted by the visit of Rev. Dr. Fohle Lygunda, Head of the Department of Missiology at International Leadership University (ILU) – Burundi, on June 14. Dr. Lygunda and Dr. Dana Robert discussed a possible collaboration for the Dictionary of African Christian Biography (DACB), which was transferred to Boston University in 2012. Dr. […]
Global Christian Shifts
Dr. Todd Johnson and doctoral student Gina Zurlo published a summary of the main findings of a 2013 update to the Atlas of Global Christianity for the Lausanne Global Analysis, entitled “Highlights of Christianity in its Global Context, 1970-2020: Society, Religion, and Mission.” In it they emphasize that Christians today find themselves in very different contexts than […]