News items about ERI and CGCM collaboration
Two articles about the ERI and CGCM collaboration appeared in the October 2012 issue of ERI’s newsletter. Both are included here.
Dr. Elizabeth Brusco delivers Berger lecture
Dr. Elizabeth Brusco, an anthropologist and one of the foremost authorities on global Pentecostalism and gender, gave the second annual Peter Berger lecture. It was entitled “Barred from the Pulpit, Absent from the Stage, and Missing in the Analysis: Why We Must Keep Women in the Foreground in Understanding Global Pentecostalism.”
Report from the 2012 ASM Eastern Fellowship
Three faculty members–Drs. Robert, Daneel, and Thangaraj–and seven students attended the 2012 ASM Eastern Fellowship last weekend. Daewon Moon filed the following report: The 2012 ASM Eastern Fellowship was held at the Maryknoll Sisters Center in Maryknoll, New York on November 2–3, with the theme “Classics of Mission Spirituality.” STH alum, Prof. Ben Hartley of Palmer Seminary, […]
Research Update from Mary Lou Shea
Mary Lou Shea, Th.D. October 30, 2012 Just about one year ago, I began my research into the life and ministry of Hiram F. Reynolds, one of the founders of a Wesleyan-American Holiness denomination, the Church of the Nazarene. As a historian of Christianity with a strong interest, and background, in mission history, I was […]
New WSCF web-posters capture its Legacy
The WSCF just put out a few great new web-posters through Facebook that perfectly capture the astonishing degree to which the WSCF was at the forefront of the need to humanize modernity and globalization because of the experience of participating in a transnational and transcultural network and point-of-view grounded in a common Christian faith. Check […]
Income Inequality in Election Years Past
A cartoon by motive cartoonist Jim Crane in 1960 and a print by Robert Hodgell in 1968 both address the issue of income inequality and how people think about their money. Either could have been done yesterday. The Hodgell print was included in a recent Eckerd College exhibit, “Robert Hodgell in an Election Year.”
motive Editor and Cartoonist Meet Again!
With support from the Society for the Arts in Religious and Theological Studies, 1960s-era motive magazine editor, B.J. Stiles, and Ada Focer, Research Director of CGCM, were able to travel to St. Petersburg, Florida to meet with 1950s and 1960s-era motive artist Jim Crane, best known for his cartoons, and the people at Eckerd College […]
WSCF seeks volunteer Ecumenical Accompaniers
WSCF seeks volunteer Ecumenical Accompaniers for PEAC: The Program for Ecumenical Accompaniment in Colombia from 1 December 2012 to 1 March 2013 as part of the PEAC Pilot Project in San Onofre, in the Montes de Maria Region in the Caribbean Coast area of Colombia. Profile of Ecumenical Accompaniers: · Age: adults over 21. · […]
DACB Board meets in Boston
The Dictionary of African Christian Biography has completed its move to Boston University. The DACB Board met in Boston on September 28.
Alum Profile: Dr. Sung Deok Oak
Sung Deok Oak is an Associate Professor of Korean Christianity at UCLA and the Dongsoon Im & Mija Im Endowment Chair Scholar, which was established under the UCLA Center for Korean Studies. He is one of the core faculty members of the Department of Asian Languages & Cultures (ALC) which is dedicated to the study […]