Jonathan Calvillo Interviewed on His Work on Faith & Ethnicity in Santa Ana

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In October, Dr. Jonathan Calvillo’s new book, The Saints of Santa Ana: Faith and Ethnicity in a Mexican Majority City, is coming out with Oxford University Press! In this audio interview, Calvillo explains how his experience of growing up as a child of Mexican immigrants and attending pentecostal churches first directed him to this field […]

Workshop: Mapping Christianity in China, 1550-1950

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Dr. Daryl Ireland, Dr. Eugenio Menegon, and Alex Mayfield are hosting a workshop entitled “Mapping Christianity in China, 1550-1950: Developing Relational and Geospatial Tools for the Study of Christianity in China,” which will showcase their China Historical Christian Database. The database is a geo-spacial tool that allows scholars to see the interconnections between all kinds […]

Andrew Barnes to Speak on the Christian Black Atlantic & Ethiopianism

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Dr. Andrew Barnes, Professor of History at Arizona State University, will give a virtual lecture entitled “The Christian Black Atlantic: Orishatukeh Faduma and the Ethiopianist Appropriation of Evangelization through Poor Relief.” The lecture will take place on Tuesday, October 20, from 2pm-3:15pm. If you would like to attend, please contact mcrago@bu.edu to request the Zoom […]

Alumnae Receive Grant to Study “The Christian Home” in Global Protestant Thought

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Two Boston University alumnae, Anneke Stasson (’13) and Soojin Chung (’18), along with Leanne Dzubinski, have recently received a Planning Grant from the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities. They will use the funds to plan a book project on the Christian home in global Protestant thought and practice between 1800 and 2000. They will investigate […]

Calls for Contributions for Upcoming Publications in World Christianity

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Dyron Daughrity of Pepperdine University is announcing a new 25-book series with Bloomsbury Academic called Christians in the City: Studies in Contemporary Global Christianity. He is currently looking for authors. Please contact him and see the flier if you are interested! In addition, Routledge Publishing has an upcoming project titled The International Handbook of Sociology and […]

Alumna Dr. Ruth Padilla DeBorst to Speak at Mission Conference

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During October 15-17, Missão ALEF will be holding a virtual conference entitled “Igreja e Cidade: Vocação e Missão.” One of the featured speakers is Dr. Ruth Padilla DeBorst (’16), CGCM alumna, presenting alongside other featured speakers–Mac Pier, Ed Stetzer, Samuel Escobar, and Viv Grigg. See the conference promotional video below, and click here to register! […]

Dana Robert Featured in Interview Series on History as Christian Vocation

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Dr. Mark Hutchinson, Professor of History at Alphacrucis College (Sydney, Australia), has recently hosted a series of podcasts on the practice of history as a Christian vocation. So far, the interviewees include Mark Noll, Tim Larsen, Beth Allison Barr, Rick Kennedy, and BU CGCM Director, Dana Robert. In her contribution to the series, Robert describes […]