September CGCM Events
In September, CGCM had three seminars on various topics. On September 14th, Pius Tih, the Director of health services for the Cameroon Baptist Convention Health Board (CBCHB), met over breakfast with students and spoke about the role of Faith-Based Organizations in global health care. On September 22nd, Jeff Pugh, the executive director of the Center […]
Mission and Transnational Adoption
Soojin Chung, CGCM student affiliate, recently published an article “Transnational Adoption: A Noble Cause? Female Missionaries as Pioneers of Transnational Adoption, 1945-1965” in Evangelical Missions Quarterly (October 2016). This article reviews biblical and theological grounds for international adoption, followed by a case study of two prominent female missionaries who spearheaded the transnational adoption movement in […]
Conversions and Transformations: The 14th Meeting of the International Association for Mission Studies
Mission Studies revolves around change. Conversion animates the entire field: religious, institutional, and cultural transformations are the object and, sometimes, the objective of missiological studies. For that reason, Mika Vähäkangas observed that it was odd that the International Association for Mission Studies had waited until its 14th Quadrennial meeting before it finally addressed the issue […]
East African Revival
Daewon Moon, PhD candidate and CGCM student affiliate, was recently awarded a research grant from the Historical Society of the Episcopal Church for his dissertation research on the East African Revival in the 1930s and 1940s. Through his project, Daewon seeks to examine how indigenous movements like the Revival in the Anglican Church of Uganda […]
Mission as boundary-crossing global ecclesiology
Anika Fast, CGCM student affiliate, recently published an article “The Earth is the Lord’s: Anabaptist mission as boundary-crossing global ecclesiology” in Mennonite Quarterly Review (July 2016). This essay reviews three strands of thinking – representatives of an older generation of North American Mennonite mission scholars and historians, younger voices speaking largely from within a Mennonite […]
Installation of Dr. Nimi Wariboko
Christian Mission Education
Benjamin L. Hartley (BUSTh 2005) recently finished up 11 years of work as a mission professor and Director of United Methodist Studies at Palmer Theological Seminary of Eastern University in Philadelphia. He now joins the faculty at George Fox University in Newberg, Oregon as the Associate Professor of Christian Studies. He will continue to teach […]
Lausanne Younger Leaders Gathering Report
The 2016 Lausanne Younger Leaders Gathering (YLG 2016) was held in Jakarta, Indonesia from August 3rd to 10th with the theme of “United in the Great Story.” Highlighting the historical vision of the Lausanne Movement to connect influencers and ideas for the purpose of advancing global mission, YLG 2016 drew 1,000 emerging leaders from over […]
Women and Christian Mission
Laura A. Chevalier, PhD candidate and CGCM student affiliate, has reviewed an important book exploring women and missions, Women and Christian Mission: Ways of Knowing and Doing Theology by Frances S. Adeney. Her review can be found in Missiology: An International Review 44, No.3 (July 2016): 362.
Dr. Nimi Wariboko awarded the Ali Mazrui Award
Dr. Nimi Wariboko, the Walter G. Muelder Professor of Social Ethics and CGCM faculty associate, was awarded the Ali Mazrui Award on July 4, 2016. The award was given by the Board of TOFAC (Toyin Falola Annual Conference on Africa and the African Diaspora) to scholars who have shown research excellence and distinguished scholarship. The award […]