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Getting to Know our 2023–2024 Global Partners – Part II

Note from the Managing Editor, Stephen Di Trolio: This semester we welcome another class of Global Partners. We wanted to run a short profile piece on each of them, so the wider public could get the know these excellent thinkers, church leaders, and scholars. This year we welcome partners from China, Japan, Ethiopia, Mexico, Nigeria, […]

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Getting to Know our 2023–2024 Global Partners – Part I

Note from the Managing Editor, Stephen Di Trolio: This semester we welcome another class of Global Partners. We wanted to run a small profile piece on each of them, so the wider public could get the know these excellent thinkers, church leaders, and scholars. This year we welcome partners from China, Japan, Ethiopia, Mexico, Nigeria,

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Letter from the New Director Dr. Soojin Chung

By Soojin Chung – Director, Overseas Ministries Study Center at Princeton Theological Seminary & Editor, International Bulletin of Mission Research   Dear Friends of the Overseas Ministries Study Center, Greetings! My name is Dr. Soojin Chung and I am delighted to serve as the newly appointed Director of the Overseas Ministries Study Center (OMSC). When I

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“Visit Palestine” – American Christian pilgrimages and Palestinian Christians

By Tala Raheb – Doctoral Candidate – Emory University     Editor’s Introduction:  Tala Raheb was awarded OMSC@PTS’s inaugural Lamin Sanneh Research Prize in 2021.  This post reflects on the research she has pursued with this grant. Tala is a doctoral candidate in Asian, African, and Middle Eastern Religions (AAMER) at Emory University. In addition

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“Can theology in a narrative form convey therapy?” – Augustine of Hippo, Theographies, and World Christianity.

By Davi C. Ribeiro-Lin – Assistant Professor of Pastoral Theology & Ministry – Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary     Editor’s Introduction:  Dr. Davi C. Ribeiro Lin was awarded OMSC@PTS’s inaugural Lamin Sanneh Research Prize in 2021.  This post reflects on the research he has pursued with this grant.  He recently joined Gordon-Conwell as an assistant professor

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The Top Languages in Global Christianity

By Todd Johnson – Co-Director – Center for the Study of Global Christianity   This post is part of The Occasional’s “Numbers and Trends” series, dedicated to sharing  work, analysis, and perspectives from our friends and partners at the Center for the Study of Global Christianity based at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.   Translatability is at

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Tracking $62 Billion in Ecclesiastical Crime

By Todd Johnson – Co-Director – Center for the Study of Global Christianity   This post is part of The Occasional’s “Numbers and Trends” series, dedicated to sharing  work, analysis, and perspectives from our friends and partners at the Center for the Study of Global Christianity based at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.   Every year, billions

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Exploring Theology, Displacement, and Lived Poetics w/ OMSC@PTS

By Xiaoli Yang – OMSC@PTS Global Partner 2022-23     Editor’s Note:  This week’s post is written by one of OMSC@PTS’s 2022-23 global partners, Dr. Xiaoli Yang, who joins us from Australia by way of her home country of China.  During this sabbatical year of study in Princeton, she is doing research on the concept

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Highlight of the Year: The Annual Statistical Table!

by Gina A. Zurlo, Ph.D. – Co-Director – Center for the Study of Global Christianity   This post is part of The Occasional’s “Numbers and Trends” series, dedicated to sharing  work, analysis, and perspectives from our friends and partners at the Center for the Study of Global Christianity based at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.   Every

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Studying Christianity as a Global Phenomenon 

By Todd Johnson – Co-Director – Center for the Study of Global Christianity   This post is part of The Occasional’s “Numbers and Trends” series, dedicated to sharing  work, analysis, and perspectives from our friends and partners at the Center for the Study of Global Christianity based at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.   As an academic

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