Costas Consultation
On April 5th, the Boston Theological Institute held its annual Costas Consultation on International Mission and Ecumenism. This year, the event was held at the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry, and the theme was World Christianity and the Arts. Talks included “Icons and World Christianity,” by Fr. Maximos Costas of Holy Cross Greek […]
Interpreting Campaign Posters
Riding around on the back of a motorcycle in 2009, Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies Jeremy Menchik snapped photos of hundreds of Indonesian campaign posters. That number has now grown to over 10,000 images, which Menchik and his co-author Colm Fox have painstakingly coded and analyzed to […]
Human Trafficking Conference
CCARHT 2019 Symposium Cambridge Centre for Applied Research in Human Trafficking @ Centre for Social Innovation Judge Business School University of Cambridge 1st – 5th July The several Rs of Trafficking (6th July Research Day – for rising academics) The CCARHT Summer Symposium is up and running. Here at the Centre we are busy assembling […]
Amos Yong (’99) Becomes Dean Twice Over
Fuller Seminary announced that Amos Yong (’99) has been named to serve as dean of both the School of Theology (SOT) and the School of Intercultural Studies (SIS), marking a historic new structure for the institution, effective July 1. Under one dean, the coordination and integration of curriculum and degrees in SIS and SOT will be […]
Methodist Mission Bicentennial
Last week, the United Methodist General Board of Global Ministries, in collaboration with Candler School of Theology of Emory University in Atlanta, hosted a conference on “Answering the Call: Hearing God’s Voice in Methodist Mission Past, Present, and Future.” The conference celebrated Methodism’s mission heritage and looked to the future of Methodist mission. Some of those […]
Material Cultures of Devotion in Early Modern Jesuit Missions
This roundtable will examine the functions of sacred objects in three very different Jesuit missions from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries – England, China, and Northeastern America – to compare the devotional, social, and sometimes political significance that sacred objects acquired in different geographical and cultural circumstances. The event will feature an exhibit of relics and […]
Meeting of Mission Minds
On April 6, 2019, Andrew Walls, Ingrid Walls, Dana L. Robert, M.L. Daneel, and Gerald Anderson met in New Haven, Connecticut. The contributions to Mission Studies by each is significant, but the friendship among them is what endures.
Moving Forward Together: Ecumenical Meeting
From 26 to 28 March 2019, the University of Notre Dame (Indiana, USA) hosted representatives of the five Christian world communions formally associated with the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification (JDDJ) to discuss implications of that landmark agreement in the context of growing closeness and collaboration between them. Church leaders came from the […]
150th Anniversary of Methodist Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society
On March 23, 1869, eight women gathered at Tremont Street Methodist Episcopal Church in Boston and founded the Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society. To commemorate the event, the School of Theology held a dedication ceremony of the stain-glass windows that came from the Tremont Street church that memorialized the women who started the society. Dana L. […]
Joining the Choir
Nicolette Manglos-Weber’s new book, Joining the Choir: Religious Membership and Social Trust Among Transnational Christians was published by Oxford University Press, and recently reviewed by the American Academy of Religion’s Reading Religion.