Stephen DiTrolio

By Nadia Andrilenas Nadia Andrilenas is a PhD student in the Department of Religion in Historical Studies at Baylor University. Her research examines women’s experiences in Christianity, especially in East and Southeast Asia, and draws from World Christianity methodologies. Her dissertation will explore how Vietnamese and Christian and Missionary Alliance missionary women shaped early Vietnamese […]

By Matthew Krabill, The Sanneh Institute, Academic Programs Coordinator Dr. Matthew Krabill was born and raised in southern Côte d’Ivoire in West Africa. He obtained a PhD from Fuller Seminary, where his research focused on African migration, religious identity, and ecclesiology within Mennonite Church USA. Dr. Krabill’s dissertation will be published in Brill’s Theology and

By Marcos Amado Marcos Amado is a Brazilian pastor with over 23 years of cross-cultural experience. His missionary journey began in 1981 with Operation Mobilization aboard the Doulos ship. He spent eight years in North Africa working among Muslims and later earned a degree in Missiology in the UK. He became International Director of PM

By Stephen Di Trolio The Noteworthy section of The Occasional will from time to time highlight the obituaries of those who have had a relationship with the OMSC or a larger impact on missiology, theological education, or missions history. This week we celebrate the lives of Bob Coote and Jeanne Dilg who had a great

By Stephen Di Trolio Stephen is a PhD student in the Department of History and Ecumenics at Princeton Theological Seminary, specializing in “Religion in the Americas.” Stephen was born in Costa Rica and grew up in Argentina, where he returned to live after university in the United States.  He is researching Latin American political history,

By Joel Carpenter Joel was the provost of Calvin from 1996 to 2006 and then was the founding director of the Nagel Institute for the Study of World Christianity until retiring in 2019. He has enjoyed being a member of the history department all along. Joel has a longstanding interest in American religious and cultural history