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. […]
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: Grace May to William Carey International University
Grace May, who graduated from the Boston University School of Theology in 2000, has been appointed as the Assistant Professor Biblical Studies at William Carey International University (WCIU) in Pasadena, CA. As of the 2015-2016 academic year, she will be teaching and mentoring doctoral students from around the world, primarily from the Global South. In […]
Translating Christianity
The 54th Summer Conference of the Ecclesiastical History Society was held at the University of York in England from July 28-30, 2015. Exploring the theme of “Translating Christianity,” the conference focused on cultural, linguistic, and ritual translation of the Christian faith into different global contexts over the past two millennia. To illustrate the conference theme, a virtual […]
Visiting Researcher Writes about H. F. Reynolds and the Foundation of the Church of the Nazarene
For three years, Mary Lou Shea was a Visiting Researcher at the Center for Global Christianity & Mission. During that time, she devoted herself to uncovering the story of Hiram F. Reynolds, one of the first two General Superintendents in the Church of the Nazarene, and the architect of Nazarene missions around the world. The result of her […]
Strong CGCM Presence at the American Society of Missiology and the Yale-Edinburgh Group Meetings
This year, the American Society of Missiology held its conference from June 18 to June 21. The theme was “Missio-logoi: The Many Languages of Mission,” and it focused on the way that words, images, and other forms of human expression relate to Christian mission. CGCM student Laura Chevalier presented her paper, “Mission Spirituality: Trends and Developments Since 1980.” The […]
Rethinking Methodism
In a recent essay, Chris Evans explored important questions scholars need to raise when they think about American Methodism, particularly after the Civil War. One way to reconsider the role of Methodism, Evans argued, would be to look at the role of Methodist young people, citing the motive magazine as a rich and untapped source. The Center for Global […]
Conversion, Overlapping Religiosities, Polemics, and Interaction: Early Modern Iberia and Beyond
On June 19th, Professor Rady Roldan-Figueroa will be in Madrid, Spain presenting his research on “Anticlericalismo, filosemitismo e identidad prostestate en el Carrascón.” Details about the conference can be found below.
The Making of Korean Christianity
The award winning book, The Making of Korean Christianity: Protestant Encounters with Korean Religions, 1879-1915 was recently reviewed in the Africanas Journal. The publication is doubly significant for the Center for Global Christianity & Mission, as the author of the book, Sung-Deuk Oak, graduated from the Boston University School of Theology in 2002. The review was […]