Killing our Children’s Children
Surveying ecological disasters around the world, Visiting Researcher Kapya Kaoma delivered sharp warnings that an earth-theology must be developed, or we will be “killing our children’s children.” Dr. Kaoma delivered his message during the Gunther Wittenberg Lecture at the University of KwaZulu-Natal Ujamaa Centre in South Africa. His entire lecture has been made through Critical Investigations into Humanitarianism […]
Large Book Donation to African Theological Schools
The Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts is donating over 10,000 books to numerous theological schools in Africa. The Rev. Dr. Kapya Kaoma, BuSTH alumnus and CGCM visiting researcher, facilitated the donation between the divinity school’s closing library and African institutions including St. John’s Anglican University College in Zambia and Zomba Theological College in Malawi. A […]
Methodist Mission Bicentennial
Over the next two years a series of celebrations will recognize Methodism’s bicentennial of mission, which will occur in 2019 in accord with the 1819 founding of the Missionary Society by the Methodist Episcopal Church, a forerunner to The United Methodist Church. It is exciting that the year 2019 will also recognize the 150th anniversary of […]
Augustinian Monks in the Qing Imperial Court
Cultural and religious exchange between China and the West is not something unique to recent history. This summer, CGCM faculty associate Eugenio Menegon visited Druento, Italy, home of Discalced Augustinian Sigismondo Meinardi da San Nicola (1713-1767). Sigismondo spent 30 years in the Qing Imperial Court in Beijing. Menegon has found hundreds of Sigismondo’s letters, many of […]
Migration, Human Dislocation, and Mission Accountability
“Migration, Human Dislocation, and Mission Accountability” will serve as the theme for the upcoming forum hosted by the Global Mission Leadership Forum, Nov. 7-10, in Sokcho, South Korea. Jonathan Bonk, CGCM faculty associate, chaired the meetings held this summer in preparation for this invitation only forum.
Inter-University Council for East Africa
Representing the private universities in Burundi, Daewon Moon attended the recent meeting of the Quality Assurance Committee of the Inter-University Council for East Africa (IUCEA) which was held in Kampala, Uganda. Established in 1970, the IUCEA has strived for improvement of higher education and promotion of academic research among its 115 member universities. Academic cooperation among them […]
Biography in Latin American Pentecostalism
In his recent book, Tales of Mutual Influence: Biography as Missiology in Latin American Pentecostalism, Angel D. Santiago-Vendrell (BuSTH alumnus and professor of evangelism at Asbury Theological Seminary) explores the role of biography in the Pentecostal missionary endeavor in Latin America. Following the movement across the 20th century, Santiago-Vendrell describes its journey beginning with early American missionaries, its […]
Transnational Missionary Movements
In the fall of 2017, Dr. Dana L. Robert will be a Senior Research Fellow at the Leibniz Institute of European History in Mainz, Germany. While there, she will also address the Roman Catholic and Protestant Missiological Societies on Transnational Misionary Movements. On the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, the two societies will meet together for the […]
West African Pentecostalism
In Global Renewal Christianity: Spirit-Empowered Movements, Past, Present, and Future, vol 3: Africa and Diaspora, Nimi Wariboko surveys the everyday theology of West African Pentecostals. It is an opportunity to explore what Pentecostal faith looks like in Africa at home, work, among the family, and church.
Architecture and Faith in China
In his most recent article on “The Action of Christian Buildings on their Chinese Environment,” Michel Chambon describes how Christian church structures in Fujian shape the faith of those who gather inside, as well as what they communicate to those who only peer at the buildings from outside. He argues that buildings are actors which make the […]