Pentecostalism, Latinx Community and Hip-Hop
Dr. Jonathan Calvillo will give a lecture, “When the Spirit is your Inheritance: Testimonios in Borderlands Pentecostalism.”
Global Mission in the Age of World Christianity
In May 2023, Yonsei University and the Saemoonan Church combined to host Dana Robert as she gave the special Underwood Lectures on Global Mission in the Age of World Christianity. The lectures included, “Frontiers, or ‘to the Ends of the Earth'”, “Friendship in the Kingdom,” and “Fellowship: Living ‘As If.'” Reporting on the lecture on […]
IAMS 2026
In June, the new executive committee of the International Association for Mission Studies met in Seoul, Korea to plan for the next quadrennium. In addition to setting the location for the 2026 meeting in Pretoria, South Africa, Michele Sigg, the North American representative, and the other delegates selected the theme “Walking Together in Mission: Facing […]
Russian Methodism
During the early twentieth century until the Japanese invasion of 1931, Harbin, Manchuria, was a crossroads for migrants, including Koreans, mixed-race North Asian populations, and Russians fleeing the Russian Revolution. In that challenging context, the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, opened missions to the different refugee populations in Harbin. In 1927 the mission to Russian refugees […]
Mustafa Akyol’s Upcoming Lecture
Mustafa Akyol is a Turkish journalist, author, public speaker, and senior fellow at the CATO Institute’s Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity in Washington, D.C. His TED talk on “Faith versus Tradition in Islam” has been watched by more than 1.2 million viewers. We are excited to host him this Tuesday, March 14, at 3.30 […]
Frankfurt-Bad Homburg South-South Conference
The Frankfurt-Bad Homburg South-South Conference on “Early South-South Links in the History of World Christianity (16th – 19th Centuries)” John Thornton (CGCM Faculty Associate) will be on of the presenters.
LGBTQIA+ Activism in Africa and the Diaspora
New Book: “Global Christianity”
CHCD Version 1.0 Released
On Wednesday, July 27th at 9 am (ET), the Center for Global Christianity and Mission at Boston University showcased the first version of the China Historical Christian Database (CHCD). Watch Video here.
Casely Essamuah’s (’03) interview at the WCC
“The first question the secretary of Global Christian Forum, Rev. Dr. Casely Baiden Essamuah, asks himself when he sits down at the table together with networking peers from different denominations is: “who is missing?”” Rev. Dr. Casely Baiden Essamuah (’03) recently gave an interview to WCC Communications and elaborated that plans were underway to hold a […]