Alumnus Jean Luc Enyegue (’18) to Speak at the Jesuit Studies Café
February 17 | 9:20am–10am | U.S. Eastern Jean Luc Enyegue, S.J. The Jesuit Historical Institute in Africa During the Spring Season, the Jesuit Studies Café will host conversations with the directors and archivists of Jesuit Archives and Research Centers around the world. Our first café presenter will be Jean Luc Enyegue, S.J., the director of […]
Honoring Dr. M.L. Daneel’s Groundbreaking Work in Ecotheology
Dr. Harold Hunter, a leading Pentecostal scholar and ecumenist, has released this recording of Dr. M. L. Daneel’s speech at Brighton ’91. Hunter has added an introduction to help situate groundbreaking nature of the lecture. The conference at Brighton was the first major theological conference of Pentecostal scholars and thus significant in its own right. […]
Anicka Fast (’20), Bruce Yoder (’16) and Unlikely Friends Mentioned by the Mennonite Mission Network
The Mennonite Mission Network’s recent blog post mentions Anicka Fast (’20) and Bruce Yoder (’16), STH Alumni and former advisees of Dr. Dana Robert. Fast’s research and Yoder’s participation with the Congolese church and Mennonite mission are noted. Through the post, blog author, Linda Hollinger-Janzen, reflects on Anicka’s dissertation research, her current assignment in Burkina-Faso […]
Journal of African Christian Biography Latest Issue Pays Tribute to Prof. Andrew F. Walls
The latest issue of the Journal of African Christian Biography honors the memory of Professor Andrew F. Walls and Father Benedict Ssettuuma, Jr. It also highlights the contribution of Dr. Michael Adeleke Ogunewu to the work of the DACB both as an author and a mentor-teacher. Visit the Journal of African Christian Biography e-journal to learn […]
2nd Annual Walls-Oden-Bediako Lecture in Early African Christianity
You are invited to join us for the 2nd Walls-Oden-Bediako in Early African Christianity. Theme: “African Voices in Early Christian Debates about God” Presenter: Dr. David L Eastman (McCallie School, Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA, and author of Early North African Christianity: Turning Points in the Development of the Church) Date and Time: Thursday, October 21, 2021, 2:30 […]
Michèle Sigg Receives Grant to Study the African Contribution to Global Anglicanism
Dr. Michèle Sigg, Executive Director of the Dictionary of African Christian Biography (DACB), has recently received a substantial Constable Grant from The Episcopal Church for a project entitled “The African Contribution to Global Anglicanism.” The funding will support the project team in producing six educational videos on the history of the Christian church in Africa, […]
In Memory of Historian Andrew Walls
A great historian and pioneer of the study of world Christianity, Andrew Walls, has recently passed away. Walls spent his career as a teacher in Sierra Leone, Nigeria, and Scotland, where he established the Centre for the Study of Christianity in the Non-Western World at the University of Aberdeen (today the Centre for the Study […]
Public Lecture with Prof. Philomena Mwaura on Mission in Africa
The University of Applied Sciences for Intercultural Theology Hermannsburg (FIT) is hosting a public lecture with Professor Philomena Mwaura on the topic of “Integrity of Mission in the Light of the Gospel. Witness of the Spirit Among Africa’s Gospel Bearers and Through Them Worldwide Beyond.” Learn more in the event flier. Prof. Mwaura is also […]
Video Highlighting CGCM Digital Projects
For the 2021 meeting of the Yale-Edinburgh Group on World Christianity and the History of Mission, Dr. Daryl Ireland (CGCM Associate Director) and Dr. Michèle Sigg (Executive Director of the Dictionary of African Christian Biography) organized a video highlighting some of the Center’s digital projects. They highlight the Dictionary and the China Historical Christian Database […]
Bulhoek Centenary Symposium
On May 24, 2021 (8:00-12:50 SAST), the University of Pretoria Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship and the Johannesburg Institute of Advanced Study are hosting a symposium which will remember the Bulhoek Massacre of 1921, in which members of the Israelites Church were killed by Union police and in which its leader, Enoch Mgijima, was […]