Ireland and Moon present at Yale-Edinburgh
Daryl Ireland and Daewon Moon both presented papers last week at the annual Yale-Edinburgh Meeting. The title of Ireland’s paper is Finding a Home: John Sung’s Evangelistic Bands as a Location for a New Female Identity. The title of Moon’s paper is The Contribution of African Leaders to the Early Development of the Balokole Revival.
Roldan-Figueroa’s Book Named as Best!
Exploring Christian Heritage: A Reader in History and Theology edited by C. Douglas Weaver, Rady Roldán-Figueroa and Brandon Frick has been included in The Christian Century’s Best Books for 2012! It was published by Baylor University Press.
Robert Wins Major Research Support Grant
A project proposed by Dr. Dana Robert to the Religion and Innovation in Human Affairs Program of the Historical Society, “The Birth of the World Church: Vision, Friendship, and Community,” has just been awarded funding. The two-year project will explore how the religious vision of Christianity as a worldwide community framed a process of mutual […]
Meet Up at ASM in Chicago
Dr. Robert met up with alums Dr. Ben Hartley, Associate Prof of Mission at Palmer Seminary, Philadelphia; and Dr. Angel Santiago-Vendrell, the E. Stanley Jones Assistant Professor of Evangelism at Asbury Theological Seminary, Orlando at the recent meeting of ASM in Chicago.
Alumnus Gary VanderPol Visits
Dr. Gary VanderPol, the new Assistant Professor of Mission and Justice at Denver Seminary, visited Dr. Inus Daneel recently. This is a new position and Gary is the first incumbent. Denver Seminary has 1100 students and is one of the largest freestanding seminaries in the U.S.
Greetings from Burundi
Daewon Moon sends greetings from Burundi where he has been teaching a summer course for students in the missiology program at International Leadership University in Bujumbura. Most of his students are local pastors and campus ministers working with Campus for Christ. Three of them are from DRC, one from Kenya and six from Burundi.
Peg Rigg, motive Art Editor (1929-2011)
Peg Rigg was hired as art editor in 1955 right out of seminary. She also had a M.F.A. at the Chicago Art Institute. She had interned at motive the prior summer so the editor, Roger Ortmeyer, had had a chance to see her at work. Although motive had been deeply involved with the arts since […]
Book Honoring Daneel Published
Nature, Science and Religion: Intersections Shaping Society and the Environment has just been published. Edited by Catherine M. Tucker from the Department of Anthropology at Indiana University, it is dedicated to Dr. Marthinus Daneel, the Center’s Research Director, who also has a chapter in the book on Zimbabwe’s Earthkeepers.
Margaret Flory (1913-2009)
The Frontier Internship in Mission program came from the creative, entrepreneurial mind of Margaret Flory, the Presbyterian official in charge of Student Work, but who considered herself a missionary to all of the world’s students. A fireball of energy with a keen sense of Christian commitment and sensitivity to what students were thinking and feeling, […]
U.S. Delegation, Mysore, India 1928
The people in this photo were the delegates from the United States to the World Student Christian Federation conference in Mysore, India in 1928, just a few of the hundreds who became international people by attending such conferences. This is a page from a photo album assembled by John R. Mott, one of the WSCF […]