motive for Change
On September 16, 2015 a digital run of all the motive magazines went live; all, that is, but one. The final issue had notoriously been blocked by the United Methodist Church from being printed. To commemorate motive‘s digitization, B. J. Stiles, the last editor of motive magazine, donated his prints of that final issue to the School of […]
Call for Papers: Translating Christianity
Translating Christianity: Word, Image, Sound and Object in the Circulation of the Sacred from the Birth of Christ until the Present Day Ecclesiastical History Society Winter Meeting, January 16, 2016, Institute of Historical Research, London ‘Translation is always a shift not between two languages but between two cultures’ Umberto Eco Christianity today is a religion of […]
Call for Papers: The Bible in African and Asian Christianity
Dear Colleagues and Friends, Herewith I send you the revised Call for Papers for the forthcoming international conference on The Bible in African and Asian Christianity to be held from 27 to 29 June 2016 in the Andrew Walls Centre for the Study of African and Asian Christianity at Liverpool Hope University. I request you […]
Recent STH Graduates Commissioned as UMC Missionaries
Two recent graduates of Boston University’s School of Theology, Janjay Innis and Andrea Rocha Soares, were commissioned as missionaries for the United Methodist Church. Soares will serve as a regional missionary in South America, focusing on ministries to women, youth, and children. Janjay Innis will serve as a mission advocate for young adult mission service […]
Education as a Mission
On September 25, Professor Liz Parsons gave a lecture about her new book The Greatest Work in the World: Education as a Mission of Early Twentieth Century Churches of Christ. She spoke about her research on the exchanges written between Lloyd Cline Sears (1895-1986) and Pattie Hathaway Armstrong (1899-1977), two prominent leaders of Churches of Christ. […]
“Korean Wave” Not New to BU
Recently Boston University wrote about the “Korean Wave” that is hitting campus. While record numbers of students and courses in Korean language are being hit, the Boston Korean Diaspora project demonstrates that this is not entirely new. Read more about BU and its long and intertwined history with Korea and Korean intellectuals.
Kongo: Power and Majesty
Review by Cathy Corman, CGCM Visiting Researcher Those interested in the history of African Christianity may want to consider making a trip to The Metropolitan Museum of Art before January 3, 2016, to tour Kongo: Power & Majesty. The exhibit focuses on the material culture of Central African peoples after contact with Portuguese Catholics in the late […]
Alumni Report: Santiago-Vendrell to deliver Herencia Lecture at PTS
On October 9th, Angel Santiago-Vendrell (’08) will deliver the 8th Herencia Lecture at Princeton Theological Seminary. His research into the missiology of M. Richard Shaull highlights the Protestant and Princeton Theological Seminary connections to Liberation Theology.
Symposium on Edinburgh 2010
Oxford Centre for Mission Studies (OCMS), in collaboration with several of its global partners, on 4th September 2015, hosted the symposium of the Edinburgh 2010 centenary conference and brought the Regnum Edinburgh Centenary Series of 36 books to completion. 80 mission thinkers joined the series editors – Dr Wonsuk Ma of OCMS, Dr Knud Jorgensen […]
School of Theology and the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry Collaborate to Launch Digital Archive of motive Magazine
“The magazine, motive, challenged me beyond natural ability.” Jeanne Audrey Powers On September 16, Boston University School of Theology and the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry will celebrate the launch of a website that digitizes motive magazine and makes it accessible to a new generation of scholars and leaders. motive magazine shaped a generation of young, […]