Jonathan Bonk

One of the world’s leading missiologists, Jonathan Bonk is the Founding Director Emeritus of the Dictionary of African Christian Biography (DACB), the past Editor of The Journal of African Christian Biography (JACB), the immediate past president of the International Association of Mission Studies (IAMS), the Emeritus Director of the Overseas Ministries Study Center in New Haven, Connecticut, and former editor of the International Bulletin of Missionary Research (IBMR). His best-known book is Money and Missions: Affluence as a Western Missionary Problem (revised edition, 2007). More recently, he is a co-editor of People Disrupted: Doing Mission Responsibly among Refugees and Migrants (2018). He is a Research Professor of Mission Studies at Boston University. Email: jjbonk@bu.edu