Library Research Awards
Columbia University Libraries/Information Services invites applications from scholars and researchers to its annual program designed to facilitate access to Columbia’s special and distinctive collections, the Libraries Research Awards. The Libraries will award ten (10) grants of $2,500 each on a competitive basis to researchers who can demonstrate a compelling need to consult Columbia University Libraries/Information Services holdings […]
Jesse Lee Prize Awarded to Doug Tzan
The General Commission on Archive and History (GCAH) of The United Methodist Church announced the 2015 winner of its highly sought-after Jesse Lee Prize: The Rev. Dr. Douglas Tzan (pictured), elder and full member of the Baltimore-Washington Annual Conference. Tzan’s award winning manuscript is titled “The World His Circuit: The Methodist Odyssey of William Taylor.” This work […]
Call for Papers: American Society of Missiology
Missiology and Public Life: Mission’s Engagement with Societies, Change, and Conflict 2016 Annual Meeting June 17 – 19 University of Northwestern–St. Paul, St. Paul, Minnesota For a full statement of the conference theme, visit the ASM website. Registration for the annual meeting will open in January 2016. Plenary Speakers Sebastian Kim – Chair, Theology and Public […]
Call for Papers: New England Historical Association
Mennonite Brethren Historical Study Project Awarded
Anicka Fast, a first-year student in Mission Studies at Boston University, received the Mennonite Brethren Historical Commission’s study grant for 2015. Before moving from Montreal to Boston, Anicka worked with the Mennonite Central Committee in the Democratic Republic of the Congo for three years. Anicka’s research interests include intercultural reconciliation and power balancing in the […]
Biographer’s Craft
The Dictionary of African Christian Biography was recently highlighted by the Biographer’s Craft, a monthly newsletter for writers and readers of biography. The article was written by Kathleen Sheldon who participated in the African Christian Biography Conference held at Boston University, October 29-31, 2015. Conference Explores Twenty Years of African Christian Biography By Kathleen Sheldon The Dictionary of […]
Evangelicals Around the World
In the newly released Evangelicals Around the World: A Global Handbook for the 21st Century, Gina Zurlo explains how evangelicals are counted. In an age when statistics are despised as “saying anything you want,” Zurlo walks readers through the process of how the data is collected, analyzed, and interpreted so as to arrive at a reliable number […]
World Christianity and the Holiness Movement
In September 2015, The Global Institute for the Fourfold Gospel Theology at Seoul Theological University launched the new peer-reviewed journal World Christianity and the Fourfold Gospel. Scholars from around the world contributed articles, launching a new periodical focused on the ways in which the international holiness movement helped to construct world Christianity. The Advisory Board has three alumni […]
Mission and Mass Incarceration
Bill Mefford, the United Methodist Church Director for Civil and Human Rights, argued that the way to mobilize churches to challenge the United State’s system of mass incarceration is to lead a congregation into “multiplex” relationships with those impacted by the system. Using various illustrations he talked about how “simplex” relationships can deliver emergency aid or assistance–with one […]
Call for Papers: Mission/s and the Local Church
EVANGELICAL MISSIOLOGICAL SOCIETY 2016 Call for Papers Mission(s) and the Local Church Local congregations are increasingly the site in which mission efforts are organized and supervised – with missions committees, missions pastors, missions trips, church-to-church partnerships, etc. How do we bring missiology into closer connection with congregations as mission base? What are the theological and practical […]