Recently added articles from International Bulletin of Missionary Research:
Missionaries as heroes and villains.(Editorial)
Jul 01, 2008; Bonk, Jonathan J. ... When I asked Jamie Scott, author of two articles in this issue, to suggest a visual illustration for this editorial, he sent two cover images of Sky Pilot: Fighting Missionary of the Far North, a short-lived comic series (1950-51) featuring the heroics of fictional missionary John Hawks ....
Missions and film.(Critical essay)
Jul 01, 2008; Scott, Jamie S. ... We are all familiar with the phenomenon of the "Jesus" film, but various kinds of movies--some adapted from literature or life, some original in conception--have portrayed a variety of Christian missions and missionaries. If "Jesus" films give us different readings of the kerygmatic ...
Missions in fiction.(Critical essay)
Jul 01, 2008; Scott, Jamie S. ... Biblical portraits of the apostles are as much the products of fictional imagination as of historical fact, as are such early Christian texts as the Passion of Saints Perpetua and Felicity (ca. 203) and Athanasius's Life of Anthony (ca. 357). Later writers have reworked these ancient ...
David A. Kerr: 1945-2008.(Obituary)
Jul 01, 2008 ... David A. Kerr, 63, a distinguished professor in World Christianity and ecumenics, with a specialty in Christian-Muslim relations, held professorships in England, the United States, Scotland, and Sweden. In the autumn of 2005 he was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, or Lou ...
Oral theology in Lomwe songs.(Essay)
Jul 01, 2008; Foster, Stuart J. ... This article reflects on the theology that has taken root among Christians in one part of Africa. It also models one method of listening to people who have a lot to say but who tend not to write down much. Across northern Mozambique, in thatch-roofed and tin-roofed buildings, ...
History of Missiology Web site.(Website overview)
Jul 01, 2008; Robert, Dana L. ... The History of Missiology Web site (http://digilib.bu.edu/ mission) is a collaborative project of the Boston University Theology Library and the Center for Global Christianity and Mission at the Boston University School of Theology. The site provides access to classic writings in the ...
My pilgrimage in mission.(Personal account)
Jul 01, 2008; Carman, John B. ... My first task as a missionary was to help Indian Christians better understand their Hindu and Muslim neighbors. This somewhat novel assignment was warmly supported by the church council that ordained me and by the mission society that sent my wife and me to India. While some Christians may ...
The legacy of Jacob A. Loewen.(Biography)
Jul 01, 2008; Neufeldt, Harvey G. ... Jacob A. Loewen was a missionary, anthropologist, translator, and writer. As a young boy in a Mennonite village in the USSR, Jacob Loewen could not in his wildest dreams have imagined becoming a missionary in Colombia, a college professor in Kansas, and a translation consultant in South ...
United States Catholic Mission Association.(Announcing)
Jul 01, 2008 ... The United States Catholic Mission Association, Washington, D.C., will hold its 2008 annual conference October 24-26, in Baltimore, Maryland. Michael Amaladoss, S.J., director of the Institute for Dialogue with Cultures and Religions, Chennai, India, and Dianne ...
Centre for the Study of Christianity in China.(Announcing)(Brief article)
Jul 01, 2008 ... The Centre for the Study of Christianity in China moved as of April 1, 2008, from Oxford to become part of the Centre for Theology, Religion, and Culture at King's College, London. Director Christopher Hancock says the research ...
Documents and photographs related to the Nanking Massacre.(Announcing)(Brief article)
Jul 01, 2008 ... With support from the Japan International Christian University Foundation, Yale Divinity School Library scanned more than 350 documents and photographs related to the Nanking Massacre. These resources do not provide a comprehensive understanding of what occurred in Nanjing during 1937 and ...
Archives of church history in Taiwan.(Announcing)(Brief article)
Jul 01, 2008 ... After retiring from the Harvard Yenching Library, the university library with the most extensive East Asian holdings outside Asia, John Yung-hsiang Lai has been publishing the archives of church history in Taiwan--in print and also digitally (www.laijohn.com) ....
Online index of Tianfeng.(Announcing)(Brief article)
Jul 01, 2008 ... Michael Nai-Chiu Poon, director of the Centre for the Study of Christianity in Asia, Trinity Theological College, Singapore, updated the online index of Tianfeng (www.ttc.edu.sg/csca/epub/tf/tfindex.htm), a Chinese theological journal ....
Archived publications of SIM.(Announcing)(Serving in Mission)(Brief article)
Jul 01, 2008 ... The archived publications of SIM, Serving in Mission (www.sim.org), formerly Sudan Interior Mission, may be read online at http://archives.sim.org. Journals of the following SIM-related mission entities are featured: Bolivian Indian Mission and Andes Evangelical Mission, 1907-82; Cape ...
University of Edinburgh.(Appointed)(Brian Stanley)(Brief article)
Jul 01, 2008 ... Brian Stanley, as chair of World Christianity and director of the Centre for the Study of Christianity in the Non-Western World at the University of Edinburgh, effective January 1, 2009. He replaces T. Jack Thompson, who is retiring. Stanley is currently director of the Henry Martyn Centre ...
Areopagos Foundation.(Appointed)(Nygaard, Birger)(Brief article)
Jul 01, 2008 ... Birger Nygaard, director of Areopagos Foundation, an Oslo-based mission society that concentrates its work in China, Denmark, and Norway. He succeeds Knud Jorgensen, director for ten years. Nygaard was head of the Areopagos office in Copenhagen, ...
Washington Theological Union.(Appointed)(Jon P. Kirby)(Brief article)
Jul 01, 2008 ... Washington Theological Union, Washington, D.C., named Jon P. Kirby, S.V.D., to the Finian Kerwin Chair of Mission Studies. An anthropologist and missionary who has served for more than thirty-five years in Ghana, Kirby is professor of cross-cultural studies and Christian ministry and a ...
Christian International Scholarship Foundation.(Appointed)(Tite Tienou)(Brief article)
Jul 01, 2008 ... Tite Tienou has been elected chairman of the Board of Directors of the Christian International Scholarship Foundation (http://cisf.org), Lake Forest, Illinois, an organization that supports proven Christian leaders from Africa, Asia, Latin America, eastern Europe, ...
Clyde Cook.(Died)(Obituary)(Brief article)
Jul 01, 2008 ... Clyde Cook, president (1982-2007) of Biola University, La Mirada, California, on April 11,2008, at home following a heart attack. Cook was born on June 1,1935, in Hong Kong, a third-generation missionary. From 1963 to 1967 Clyde and his wife, Anna Belle, ...
John Orme.(Died)(Obituary)(Brief article)
Jul 01, 2008 ... John Orme, 70, missionary executive and educator, former executive director of the International Foreign Mission Association, February 24, 2008, following heart surgery. Orme was a missionary in Central America and a pastor in Michigan before being appointed ...