{"id":9729,"date":"2019-11-11T07:36:08","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T12:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/?p=9729"},"modified":"2019-11-11T07:36:08","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T12:36:08","slug":"maryknoll-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/2019\/11\/11\/maryknoll-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryknoll 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>This year\u2019s meeting of the Eastern Fellowship of Professors of Mission held at Maryknoll was attended by 57 people from a total of 16 institutions\u2014a record number on both accounts. The theme of \u201cVisualizing Mission\u201d fired the imagination of presenters and participants alike. On Friday, Maryknoll Father Larry Lewis unveiled jewels of \u201cGod images\u201d and signs of divine presence in several mainstream American and foreign films, emphasizing the mission of fully living out one\u2019s humanity for God. After dinner, filmmaker James Ault played an excerpt of his new film project on Mechanic Manyeruke, considered a father of gospel music in Zimbabwe. Daryl Ireland (Boston University) prompted lively discussion with his fascinating findings on the portrayal of the cross in the CGCM\u2019s digital Chinese poster collection (www.ccposter.com<\/a>). Saturday morning, James Kim (New Brunswick Theological Seminary) showed excerpts of two Korean documentaries and highlighted some of the painful history of the coming of Christianity to Korea and the work of western missionaries. Finally, brief presentations by Meg Guider (Boston College), Mich\u00e8le Sigg (Boston University), and James Taneti (Union Presbyterian Seminary) launched a plenary discussion on \u201cMissionaries in the Movies.\u201d Themes that emerged from the conversation included the importance of visual resources for churches in Africa, the ongoing challenge of negative portrayals of mission and missionaries in mainstream media, and the role of missiologists in evaluating these images within the evolving curriculum of mission studies and world Christianity programs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This year\u2019s meeting of the Eastern Fellowship of Professors of Mission held at Maryknoll was attended by 57 people from a total of 16 institutions\u2014a record number on both accounts. The theme of \u201cVisualizing Mission\u201d fired the imagination of presenters and participants alike. On Friday, Maryknoll Father Larry Lewis unveiled jewels of \u201cGod images\u201d and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3242,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1991,1992,2015,1997,2018,2086],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9729"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3242"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9731,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9729\/revisions\/9731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}