Center for Global Christianity & Mission

The Center for Global Christianity and Mission welcomes everyone back for the first semester of the 2025-2026 school year. We invite new students to explore the heights, depths, and range of Christianity around the world, as well as the call to mission that animates it. We are eager to hear from current students about their academic progress over the summer—as well as the news about summer travels and family events. We look forward to discussing the exciting individual research projects undertaken by our Visiting Researchers. We greet faculty and staff, as they prepare for teaching, and our networks of alumni and friends who share the vision of facilitating scholarship in mission studies and World Christianity.

In addition to supporting everyone’s personal research agendas, the Center will host or collaborate in a group events. Everyone is invited to the Faithful Footprints dinner programs, that will gather several times each semester to explore African Christian biography and enjoy fellowship over a meal. Thanks to the generosity of a benefactor, the Chinese Christian Posters project will host an exhibition and reception at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Killian Hall, October 31–November 2. On November 7, advanced students and faculty will drive to the Graymoor Ecumenical and Interreligious Institute for our annual meeting of the Eastern Fellowship of Professors of Mission. There we join mission scholars and activists from Virginia northward for an overnight retreat. This year’s program will be on “Navigating Cyber Mission across Generations in the Digital Era.” Center alumni who are in town for the American Academy of Religion in late November are invited to meet for dinner on Sunday, November 23 rd at the School of Theology.

On February 26-28, 2026, we will attend the Fr. Vincent Machozi Inaugural Colloquium on Ecologies of Peacemaking. Fr. Vincent was an alum of STH who was murdered for his witness to human rights in eastern Congo. He majored in ethics and mission studies, and was in the early cohort of the Tom Porter program in conflict transformation. Click here to register. In March of 2026, the Center faculty and students are invited to participate in the Orlando E. Costas Consultation on Mission and Ecumenism, sponsored by the Mission and Ecumenism Committee of the Boston Theological Interreligious Consortium. This year’s Costas Consultation will explore the life and work of the great missiologist Archbishop Anastasios of Tirana, Durrës, and All Albania. The events will be held at the Maliotis Cultural Center of Hellenic College Holy Cross (HCHC).

Other collaborative events to which the Boston University community is invited include various guest speakers, to be announced, and a drop-in reception to welcome students back to campus. Our community engagement is a key feature of the Center. Look out for news posts and information about various events on our website, and our thrice a year CGCM News. Welcome back!

Prof. Dana L. Robert, Director