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Miriam Adeney spoke about “Why Culture Matters.” Sixty mission administrators and academics gathered April 22–24 for OMSC’s Mission Leadership Forum (MLF). They explored the implications of urbanization and globalization for missionaries, mission agencies, and churches. Lively discussion ensued, said Dr. Darrell Whiteman, OMSC’s interim executive director who organized the invitation-only conference. “The ethnic boundaries that […]

Died. Joseph R. Lang, M.M., 90, Maryknoll priest for 63 years, missionary and mission administrator, April 9, 2016, in Maryknoll, New York. After missionary service in Peru for fifteen years he was recalled to the United States to serve in the central administration of the Maryknoll Society, and then in Rome where he was director

Benjamin L. Hartley Agnes C. L. Donohugh (1876–1966) taught at Hartford Theological Seminary’s Kennedy School of Missions between 1918 and 1944, the leading graduate program in mission studies in North America prior to World War II. The first missionary student of Franz Boas at Columbia University, Donohugh ininfluenced the shape of graduate anthropological education for missionaries

Angelyn Dries After the First World War, which disrupted missions around the world, Pope Pius XI announced a Holy Year for 1925, a major focus of which was the creation of the Vatican Mission Exposition. After a description of the exposition, the work of four Catholic anthropologists on both sides of the North Atlantic illustrate

Volker Küster The Christian artists introduced here from Yogyakarta, Indonesia; all have at least some academic background, and most are converted Muslims. In different degrees, their work attempts to contextualize Christian faith in the cultural-religious pluralism of present-day Indonesia. In doing so, they contribute to the development of Indonesian theology. READ MORE

         Appointed. Paul Bendor-Samuel as executive director of the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies (OCMS). After a period as executive director designate, he will replace Wonsuk Ma, who has been the center’s director for a decade, effective August 1, 2016. Bendor-Samuel, 57, was international director of Interserve for twelve years (2003–15) and executive director (1995–2002)

Died. David L. Rambo, 81, president, professor, and evangelical statesman, on March 11, 2016. Rambo was a pastor in Casco, Maine, and a missionary with his late wife, Ruth, in the Philippines (1962–1967), before being named professor of missions (1970–72) and president of Canadian Bible College and Canadian Theological Seminary (1972–78). He was well known

Died. Virgilio Elizondo, 80, pioneer Latino/a theologian, March 14, 2016. Born in San Antonio, TX, and son of Mexican immigrants, Elizondo was a co-founder of the Mexican American Cultural Center (now the Mexican American Catholic College) in 1972. He served for many years on the faculty of the University of Notre Dame in South Bend,

Jeremy Clarke The Chinese Catholic Church has a rich tradition of producing art that depicts its faith. During its more than 400 years of continuous history, not counting earlier incarnations, these works have also incorporated inculturated motifs, such as figures drawn from Buddhist iconography and the use of fauna and flora. Since the period of

Gudrun Löwner From the seventh century to the present, Christian art has existed in India. Astonishing is the fact that some of the best artistic pieces were done not by Christians, but by Hindus, Muslims, etc. This is especially visible in the Mogul miniatures of the Mogul court of Akbar to the Bengali art of