Dr. Gina A. Zurlo Delivers Keynote at 2025 Christian Scholars’ Conference
The Center of Global Christianity and Mission is excited to celebrate Dr. Gina A. Zurlo, Visiting Lecturer on World Christianity at Harvard University, who served as the keynote speaker at the 2025 Thomas H. Olbricht Christian Scholars’ Conference, held June 4–6 at Abilene Christian University. Congratulations, Dr. Zurlo! Photo: Gina Zurlo (left; BU STH Alum […]
Lausanne 2024 Photo
We are delighted that many people from the CGCM are playing a role at Lausanne IV. The people shown are CGCM affiliates (L-R): Rev. Dr. Casely Essamuah, Dr. Tyler Lenocker, Dr. Jesudas Athyal, Dr. Soojin Chung, Dr. SuYeon Yoon. Rev. Dr. Ruth Padilla DeBorst and Rev. Dr. Daewon Moon are not pictured.
Migration and Mygration Conferences
Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary will host two events on migration on October 4 – 5. On the 4th, there will be the graduate student conference on “Migration and Belonging,” and on the 5th, there will be the church-centered event “Mygration.” Justo Gonzalez will be the keynote speaker.
Remembering Inus Daneel
I met Inus Daneel in 1998 when I took his class on African Traditional Religion at Boston University. I had just spent two years living in West Africa and was trying to make sense of the significance of that experience for my own future. We quickly connected over our love of Africa and by the time I […]
WORLD CHRISTIANITY SUMMER INSTITUTE
WORLD CHRISTIANITY SUMMER INSTITUTE Connecting Christians from the Global North and South, East and West Theme: Poverty and the Church 30 June to 5 July 2024 (Sunday to Friday) WESTMINSTER COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, UK CCCW runs an annual residential Summer Institute on ‘World Christianity and Global Challenges’ in Cambridge. It is a wonderful opportunity for Christians […]
BC Ricci Institute and Harvard-Yenching Institute joint fellows presentations
Yale-Edinburgh 2024: Call for papers
Yale-Edinburgh 2024 Call for papers The Yale-Edinburgh 2024 conference will be hosted by the Yale Divinity School, New Haven, CT, 26th-28th June, 2024. The theme is Spirit and the Spiritual: Ancestors, Deities and the Holy Spirit in Church, and Mission. Missions from the West brought Christianity into worlds with a wide array of cosmologies. Recipient cultures embraced the […]
International Conference, Berlin, 19–21 September 2024
Christian Internationalism in war and post-war times, c. 1890–1930 International Conference, Berlin, 19–21 September 2024 Conveners: Prof. Dr. Judith Becker, Berlin, and PD Dr. Felicity Jensz, Münster The late nineteenth century was a time of heightened nationalism. Somewhat paradoxically, it was also the period in which Christian internationalism and interdenominationalism – the young ecumenical movement […]
World Christianity Conference in Ghana: Call for Papers
CALL FOR PAPERS 2024 REVISITING WOMEN AND GENDER IN WORLD CHRISTIANITY Fifth International, Interdisciplinary Conference co-organized by the World Christianity and History of Religions Program (Dept. of History and Ecumenics), Overseas Ministries Study Center, Princeton Theological Seminary; and the Department for the Study of Religions, School of Arts, College of Humanities, University of Ghana Venue: […]
BU at ASM
The American Society of Missiology met June 16-18, 2023 in South Bend, Indiana. Former students connected to the CGCM gathered for a meal together. In addition, three of the executive committee of the ASM are now Center alumni: Ben Hartley (President), Bill Gregory (Vice-President), and David Scott (Treasurer).