Global Perspectives

By David Dwi Chrisna David Dwi Chrisna is a doctoral candidate in Religious Studies at Baylor University, with a focus on the historical study of world Christianity. His academic training and research interests include world Christianity, mission history, and interfaith studies, with a particular emphasis on the history of Christian-Muslim relations. He is currently engaged […]

By Ryan Ramsey Ryan Ramsey (PhD, Baylor University) is a Visiting Assistant Professor of History and World Christianity at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary and a Louisville Institute Postdoctoral Fellow. His research in the Americas intersects decoloniality, popular theological development, historiography, and interreligious engagement. With Anna Wells, he is co-editor of The Five Distinctives of World Christianity:

By Anna Redhair Wells Anna Redhair Wells received her PhD from the Religion Department at Baylor University. Through the National Association of Baptist Professors of Religion, she is a postdoctoral fellow at Central Seminary. Her research examines the representation of gender in saints’ lives in medieval Ethiopia and Europe. With Ryan Ramsey, she is co-editor

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

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 and