25 Years of the UMC Order of Deacon
In commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the creation the Order of Deacon in the United Methodist Church, Dr. Benjamin Hartley (’05) recently reflected on The Deacon: Ministry through Words of Faith and Acts of Love, a book he co-authored with Paul E. Van Buren in 1998. This discussion between the two authors appeared in […]
Call for Essay Proposals: Methodism & American Empire Project
Dr. David W. Scott and Dr. Filipe Maia are leading the Methodism & American Empire Project, a forthcoming collection of essays on the connections between Methodism (or churches in the Wesleyan tradition) and US imperialism. Dr. Scott is the mission theologian for the United Methodist Church and a visiting researcher with the CGCM, and Dr. […]
Dr. Jesse Ciccotti on “Christian Theology in a Chinese Idiom”
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Spiritual Seeking among Ghanaian Immigrants to the US
Dr. Nicolette Manglos-Weber, CGCM faculty associate, was recently featured in the podcast series sponsored by the journal Sociology of Religion. In the conversation, Dr. Manglos-Weber shares about one of her latest articles, “The Contexts of Spiritual Seeking: How Ghanaians in the United States Navigate Changing Normative Conditions of Religious Belief and Practice.” The article itself […]
Margaret Rigg Collection Available at Boston University Theo Arts Gallery
Many pieces of artwork from the Margaret Rigg Collection are now available for virtual viewing through the Boston University Theo Arts Gallery. Dating back to the late 1950s and 1960s, the works explore theological themes like crucifixion, la pieta, and the holiness of the body through the lens of the beginning of the Cold War […]
Panel on Pursuing Unity in Church and World
On April 21, 12:00-1:30pm (CDT), North Park Theological Seminary in Chicago, Illinois, is hosting a panel on the topic “Pursuing Unity in Church and World.” CGCM Director Dr. Dana Robert will speak on the panel alongside Rev. Dr. Kevin Blue and Rev. Dr. Soong-Chan Rah. Learn more about the panel theme in North Park’s event […]
John Thornton to Speak on Religion & Slavery in the Kingdom of Kongo
On April 21 at 4pm, Dr. John Thornton, CGCM faculty affiliate, will speak on “Religion, the Kingdom of Kongo and the Slave Trade” as a part of the W.E.B. DuBois lecture series at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. Register here: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_M8YrmuXmSfGf9PdoPUBqqQ
Lecture on Patronesses of Early Modern Missions in China
On Tuesday, April 13, Dr. Eugenio Menegon, one of the CGCM faculty affiliates, will deliver a lecture in the East Asian Studies Speaker Series at Johns Hopkins University. His talk is titled “The Matriarch, the Duchess, the Queen, and the Countess: Patronesses of the Catholic Mission in Early Modern Chinese-European Relations,” and it is sponsored […]
Eugenio Menegon to Deliver Lecture in “Keys to Understanding Early Modern Christianities” Series
On April 20 at 10am (Central European Time), CGCM faculty associate Dr. Eugenio Menegon will deliver one of the Frankfurt Lectures on “Keys to Understanding Early Modern Christianities.” His topic, local religion in late imperial China, is one of several interesting themes explored by the lecturers, such as polycentricity in global Catholicism, tolerance in the […]
Liberating the Ladies’ Aid: Public Lecture with Dr. Margaret Bendroth
Why did women’s ordination take so long to achieve? And how did churchwomen push for change before the advent of Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem? On Thursday, April 8, Dr. Margaret Bendroth will discuss the complicated search for ‘women’s role’ in mainline churches in the crucially important years leading up to second-wave feminism. Dr. Bendroth […]