Mission and Unity
At the Florida Annual Conference in June 2019, Dana Robert spoke to the delegates and mission and unity built on the foundation of friendship. “These days, the ‘together’ part of mission might be the toughest part of the mission we face,” she noted. Yet, maybe for that reason, friendship is a powerful witness. It creates […]
Message from the Director
The Passing of a Generation The past six months have seen the deaths of several major figures in the fields of mission studies and World Christianity. It is important to offer gratitude for their lives and leadership. Their work has influenced many of us connected with the Center for Global Christianity and Mission. Ed Schroeder, […]
Global Christianities: Perspectives, Methods, and Challenges
The University of Chicago hosted its second conference on Global Christianities on May 2, 2019. Dana L. Robert delivered the keynote address, “Mission Studies and Global Christianity.” The conference attracted scholars and students from many institutions, as other topics included “The Study of Global Christianity from a Post-Colonial Perspective,” and “Challenges, Concepts, and Prospects” for […]
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 […]
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.
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. […]
David C. and Virginia R. Steinmetz Lecture at Duke Divinity School
Dr. Dana Robert, Director of the Center for Global Christianity and Mission, will be giving a public lecture on cross-cultural friendship in World Christianity. Location: Duke Divinity School Goodson Chapel Date: April 4, 2018, 2:30-3:45 pm
Cross-Cultural Friendship, Spiritual Practices, and Witness to World Christian Community
Duke Divinity School will sponsor the 2018 David C. and Virginia Steinmetz lecture featuring Dr. Dana L. Robert, Truman Collins Professor of World Christianity and History of Mission and also the director of the Center for Global Christianity and Mission. Her lecture will be titled “Cross-Cultural Friendship, Spiritual Practices, and Witness to World Christian Community: […]
Methodist Mission Bicentennial
Over the next two years a series of celebrations will recognize Methodism’s bicentennial of mission, which will occur in 2019 in accord with the 1819 founding of the Missionary Society by the Methodist Episcopal Church, a forerunner to The United Methodist Church. It is exciting that the year 2019 will also recognize the 150th anniversary of […]
Transnational Missionary Movements
In the fall of 2017, Dr. Dana L. Robert will be a Senior Research Fellow at the Leibniz Institute of European History in Mainz, Germany. While there, she will also address the Roman Catholic and Protestant Missiological Societies on Transnational Misionary Movements. On the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, the two societies will meet together for the […]