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Orlando E. Costas Consultation on Mission and Ecumenism on 3, March 2026
Join us on Tuesday, March 3, 2026 for this year’s Orlando E. Costas Consultation, a one-day event exploring the life and work of the missiologist, Archbishop Anastasios of Tirana, Durrës, and All Albania.
Hosted in partnership with Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, the consultation will feature guest remarks, academic sessions, special presentations, and evening vespers. Scholars and church leaders will reflect on Archbishop Anastasios’ contributions to mission, theological education, and ecumenism.
Location: Maliotis Cultural Center, Hellenic College Holy Cross
Date: March 3, 2026
To attend, please contact Dr. Dana Robert (drobdan@bu.edu) to reserve your spot.
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Cambridge Center for Christianity Worldwide Seminar, 17 February 2026
The Challenges of Sacred Charters for World Christianity
The Center for the Study of World Christianity (CCCW) warmly invites you to attend the CCCW Day Lecture, in person or online, on Tuesday, 17 February 2026, featuring Professor Dana Robert (Boston University).
New Faculty Publication: “Persisting in the Good: Thomas Aquinas and Early Chinese Ethics”
Cambridge Center for Christianity Worldwide Seminar, 17 February 2026
We are delighted to invite you to the upcoming CCCW Day Lecture on Tuesday, 17 February, featuring Professor Dana Robert of Boston University.
Professor Robert will present a lecture titled "The Challenges of Sacred Charters for World Christianity," offering timely and critical reflections on key developments shaping World Christianity and mission in the twenty-first century.
This event will also celebrate the relaunch of "Connecting Christianities: World Christianity and Mission in the Twenty-First Century," edited by Muthuraj Swamy and Jenny Leith and published by Brill. Professor Robert is one of the editors of this significant volume, published just before Christmas 2025.
Tuesday, 17 February
4:00–5:30 PM (GMT)
Runcie Room, Faculty of Divinity
We warmly encourage colleagues, students, and friends to join us for this special lecture and book relaunch.
More details about the CCCW Day Lecture will be shared soon.
Cambridge Center for Christianity Worldwide Seminar, 3 February 2026
Lecture: Christianity, Class, and Masculinity in Late Colonial and Postcolonial Sri Lanka
Join Dr. Jessica A. Albrecht (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen–Nuremberg) on Tuesday, 3 February 2026, 4:00–5:30 PM GMT in Lecture Room 2, Faculty of Divinity, or online. This presentation analyses how these schools have produced and stabilized specific ideals of middle- and upper-class masculinity from late colonial rule into the present.
Click here for more information and registration. Download the flyer here.
Webinar on The Dictionary of African Christian Biography with Dr. Michèle Sigg
Since 2018, Africa has been the continent with the most Christians worldwide. In the next two decades, the growth of Christianity in Africa will far outpace that of every other continent. Since its conception in 1995, the mission of the Dictionary of African Christian Biography (DACB.org) has been to recover and preserve the history of this remarkable growth by collecting the biographies of the African men and women at the center of this narrative. This webinar will track the milestones of this now 30-year-old project, the insights gained for historical research in the 21st century, emerging approaches to collaborative scholarship, and resources for theological education in Africa.
On Thursday, 15 January 2026, at 1400 UTC, Dr. Michèle Sigg, Executive Director of the Dictionary of African Christian Biography (DACB), will introduce the role of this project in documenting the stories of our fathers and mothers.
Click here to register and for more information.
Celebrating Rodney L. Peterson’s “Book of Revelation” Book Launch
We are grateful to celebrate the book launch of Rodney L. Petersen’s new commentary on the "Book of Revelation" at Marsh Chapel on November 20, 2025.
Now a visiting scholar at Duke Divinity School, Dr. Petersen has long been a valued member of the Center of Global Christianity and Mission community. We also want to recognize the colleagues and friends—especially Rev. Dr. Casely Essamuah, Dan Carman, Jeffrey Cox, and Becky—who have been involved with the Center and helped make this celebration possible.
New Global Anabaptist History Series Deepens Understanding of God’s Work in the World
Anicka Fast is editing a biographical book series about Anabaptists in Africa, Asia and Latin America. This series brings global history to life, as it is told by local historians. The first volume of the series focuses on Mennonite leaders in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Read article here.
Cambridge Center for Christianity Worldwide Seminar, 5 Nov 2025
The Paradoxes of the Regional and the Local in Pacific Theologies and Christianities
Dr Richard Davis, Wesley House, Cambridge
Wednesday 5 November 2025, 4.00–5.30pm GMT
Lightfoot Room, Faculty of Divinity, West Road & Online
Pacific Christianity has an identity crisis. On the one hand, Pacific Christians speak of the “Pacific Way” or a common “Pacific Culture” in their perennial quest for a Pacific contextual theology. Such theologies have been based on the common experience of the sea, the communal, or “relational” nature of Pacific cultures, or the (largely) shared colonial/post-colonial experience. On the other hand, the Pacific region’s diversity makes such commonalities highly questionable, while at the same time ecumenical commitments are waning. The regionalists speak in ideological and regional terms, which cut across ethnographic methods, leading to regional theologies and frameworks which local theologians and churches are expected to adopt. In response, local and parochial theologies and Christian institutions are in the ascendancy, which ultimately threaten the regional institutions that provide the scholars and leaders of national churches. Yet while the regional approaches are failing or intellectually weak, they are needed to support regional and ecumenical Christianity in the Pacific. This paper will explore these questions and ask whether regional theologies can mediate between the universal and the local for the advantage of all.
Dr Richard Davis is the Vice Principal and Director of the Centre for Faith in Public Life at Wesley House, Cambridge. A New Zealander, Richard taught theology and ethics for several years at the Pacific Theological College in Fiji Islands. At Wesley House he teaches African contextual theology and supervises PhD students from around the world. His own research is in Decolonial Settler Theology, being a contextual decolonising theology for and by settlers in settler colonial societies. He has authored several publications on themes including Christianity in Oceania, political/public theology, settler colonialism, and climate justice.
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Toyohiko Kagawa’s War Responsibility Confession
