When Christians think about the idea of ministry or missions, graduate school might be one of the last things they would think about. Why should a missional student ever consider gradschool? From Dec 27 - Jan 1, volunteers with our network of early career Christian academics are liveblogging seminars at the Urbana conference, a mission-focused student gathering of 16,000 Christians from across North America and the world. This post was written by Vivian Chen and Angelo Blancaflor, and May Yuan. Joshua Swamidass … [Read more...] about Why should a missional student ever consider gradschool?
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The Missional Professor in Universities Outside North America
How can Christian academics carry out mission while working at universities outside their home countries? From Dec 27 - Jan 1, volunteers with our network of early career Christian academics are liveblogging seminars at the Urbana conference, a mission-focused student gathering of 16,000 Christians from across North America and the world. This post was co-written by Rebecca Carlson and Vivian Chen. Dr. Keith Campbell, today's speaker, is vice president of Global Partnerships for Global Scholars and has spent four … [Read more...] about The Missional Professor in Universities Outside North America
ESN, Global Scholars, Urbana: A Doorway to the World’s Universities
Trajectories in Global Missions I returned to America in July from China after teaching in a Shanghai university for four years, including serving occasionally more broadly in Asia; and I just stepped off of the plane recently from a one-month, five-country trip to numerous universities in Sub-Saharan Africa. I happily discovered from these travels that what missiologists like Timothy Tennent have been saying for years is, indeed, so right: The ‘west reaches-the-rest' missional paradigm must change; it should be … [Read more...] about ESN, Global Scholars, Urbana: A Doorway to the World’s Universities
Book Review: Overturning Tables
Overturning Tables: Freeing Missions from the Christian-Industrial Complex, Scott Bessenecker. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2014 Summary: Scott Bessenecker argues that Western missions efforts are often captive to corporate culture and practices inconsistent with efforts to reach across cultures and to the marginal peoples outside the corporate world. … [Read more...] about Book Review: Overturning Tables
A missionary calling to Africa for Christian academics: Part 2
Models There are perhaps as many models for helping as there are universities in Africa. I hope through this forum to learn more from other readers of the variety of options and discuss what may or may not be effective. Much of the pioneer work in post-secondary education in Africa was done by starting bible colleges. Faculty were most often not traditional US academics with advanced degrees (apart from seminary degrees). Many of these schools have become universities, but in doing so struggle to attract … [Read more...] about A missionary calling to Africa for Christian academics: Part 2