Dana Robert to Give Public Lecture for International Missionary Council Centenary Conference, November 17th
Dana Robert will deliver an online lecture on November 17, 2021, at 9:30, am (EST) for the IMC Centenary Conference hosted by the World Council of Churches in Geneva, Switzerland. Her talk, “What happened in Lake Mohonk and its outcome,” is one of three webinars open to public attendance over the three-day conference. The conference […]
Rady Roldan-Figueroa Interviewed on His New Book, The Martyrs of Japan
Dr. Rady Roldan-Figueroa recently gave a video interview on the topic of his new book, The Martyrs of Japan. In the interview, Dr. Roldan-Figueroa, Faculty Associate of the CGCM, shared some significant findings of his interdisciplinary research focusing on the missionary work of three religious orders in Japan. The book contributes to undercurrents in seventeenth-century […]
The Reverend Jack Amick (STH ’06) and UMCOR’s Global Migration Program
The Reverend Jack Amick, STH alumn, is featured in a recent article announcing $10 million in grants for the work of Global Ministries and UMCOR. The director of UMCOR’s Global Migration Program, Rev. Jack Amick (’06), describes its primary goal to “support the church in its efforts to provide welcome to refugees and migrants of […]
Digital Symposium Commemorating the 125th Year of the Death of Seven Civilians from Leipzig Mission
Digital Symposium “Climbing High Mountains. Colonial entanglement & postcolonial reflections” 29 – 30 October, 2021. Commemorating the 125th year of the death of seven civilians from Leipzig Mission – Karava, Mrio, and three other Chagga people, as well as the two missionaries Ewald Ovir and Karl Segebrock – at Mount Meru October 20, 1896, Leipzig […]
Fr Luke Veronis to Give IOTA Missiology Group Lecture on Thursday, October 28th
The IOTA Missiology Group extends a warm invitation to join their series of online IOTA Missiology Webinars this autumn 2021. The first speaker will be Fr Luke Veronis, Director of the Missions Institute of Orthodox Christianity at Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology. Fr Luke has written extensively on missiological topics and has served as […]
Journal of African Christian Biography Latest Issue Pays Tribute to Prof. Andrew F. Walls
The latest issue of the Journal of African Christian Biography honors the memory of Professor Andrew F. Walls and Father Benedict Ssettuuma, Jr. It also highlights the contribution of Dr. Michael Adeleke Ogunewu to the work of the DACB both as an author and a mentor-teacher. Visit the Journal of African Christian Biography e-journal to learn […]
United States Catholic Mission Association Conference on Mission and Migration, October 25-29, 2021
Join USCMA’s national dialogue on how the Church – and the missionary community within the church – can be in solidarity with the immigrant, migrant, refugee, and asylum seeker. Angels Unaware – Mission with People on the Move is an opportunity for FOCUS, REFLECTION, COMMUNITY, SPEAKERS, and COMPANIONS. The schedule provides the FOCUS for 13-hours […]
Hymnody Mini-Conference, Monday, November 8th.
The BU School of Theology has a long history of involvement with hymnody in both its practical and academic aspects. The Reverend Dr. Carl P. Daw, Jr., retired Lecturer of Hymnology, and Curator of the Hymnological Collections at STH, wrote a history of some of the notable people associated with BU who were prominent in the field, […]
Announcing the Festschrift in Honor of Dr. Dana L. Robert
The CGCM is pleased to announce the publication of a festschrift in honor of Dana L. Robert: Unlikely Friends: How God Uses Boundary-Crossing Friendships to Transform the World. The volume is co-edited by David W. Scott (’13), Daryl R. Ireland (’15), Grace Y. May (’00), and Casely B. Essamuah (’03). The editors chose to honor […]
Call for Papers – 13th GloPent Conference: Pentecostalism and Socio-Cultural Change
The thirteenth annual conference of the European Research Network on Global Pentecostalism (GloPent.net) will take place in Cambridge, 1–2 April 2022. The conference will be convened by David Maxwell and Jörg Haustein. The conference’s theme is “Pentecostalism and Socio-Cultural Change” and will feature keynote speakers Joel Cabrita, Girish Daswani, and Karen Lauterbach. Organizers will plan […]