Mennonite Brethren Historical Commission Award
An M.B. Studies Project Grant of $2,500 was awarded to Anicka Fast for her Ph.D. dissertation project: “Living in the same house: Contested ecclesial identity in the Mennonite and Mennonite Brethren missionary encounter in Congo, 1912–1989.” Like other sectors currently receiving attention (e.g., Mennonites and the Holocaust, Mennonites and Canadian “Indian Day Schools,” etc.), Anicka’s […]
UNCF/Mellon Programs International Faculty Seminar
The 2018 UNCF/Mellon Programs International Faculty Seminar in Portugal and Spain, July 2-12, 2018 will be facilitated by Linda Heywood, Professor of African American Studies and History at Boston University.
How do nonsecular democracies govern religion?
“Soft separation” is a term that Professor Jeremy Menchik uses to describe the ways some governments handle the dividing line between church and state. He insists that such democracies are not inadequate or underdeveloped, just less understood.
China Connection
Professor Eugenio Menegon (Chinese History) is spending a month in China (May 22-June 23) as an invited Visiting Scholar at the Beijing Foreign Studies University (Institute of European Studies), Sichuan Normal University (Department of History), and Shanghai University (Department of History). While in China, he is lecturing undergraduate and graduate students and giving public presentations about […]
New Perspectives on the Historiography of Christianity
In light of the global reality of Christianity, how might historians “provincialize Europe”? Humboldt University in Berlin sponsored an international workshop to consider the historiography of Christianity, especially in the West, and how it has not yet kept up with the development of world Christianity. How can historians do justice to the global nature of Christianity? Convened […]
Reflections on the Global Christian Forum
What difference does another conference on Christian unity have on the way congregations actually relate to one another? Bishop Brian Farrell, Secretary of the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, urged those gathered at the third Global Christian Forum in Bogata, Columbia to work out the consequences of what they had discovered together. Among others who shaped the experience, […]
Re-examining Missiology in the New France
Existing histories of the brief Franciscan Recollect mission to New France (1615–1629) tend either to overstate the assimilatory character of the Recollect missionary vision or to overlook their comprehensively political vision. Through a close re-reading of early Recollect sources in her Journal of Early Modern Christianity article, “Helping ‘our Canadian brothers’: Early Recollect Missiology as an […]
Global Christian Forum Installs New Secretary
At the third gathering of the Global Christian Forum, Rev. Dr. Casely Essamuah (’03) was installed at the new Secretary. Surrounded by delegates from 64 nations and represented twenty two different Christian traditions, Essamuah was charged to lead the ecumenical organization that facilitates interaction among Christians globally.
Demographic Mosaic of World Christianity
At the third gathering of the Global Christian Forum, Gina A. Zurlo (’17) explained to the leaders of twenty two Christian traditions from 64 countries, some of the new factors that are reshaping the look of Christianity around the globe. She placed particular emphasis on the emergence of Independent Christian groups, whose identity is neither […]
Sacred Children and Colonial Subsidies
Anicka Fast, CGCM student affiliate, recently published an article entitled “Sacred children and colonial subsidies: The missionary performance of racial separation in Belgian Congo, 1946-1959” in Missiology: An International Review. Below is the description of the article: While most Protestant missions in Belgian Congo gladly accepted the colonial state’s offer of educational subsidies in 1946, […]