We congratulate Prabodith Mihindukulasuriya, a LeaderStudies recipient from Sri Lanka, who successfully defended his dissertation last week. His research explores how British Christians contributed to the Sri Lankan campaign for justice. He’ll guide believers to think carefully about Christianity and national identity.
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This week, Yohanna Katanacho is visiting Ukrainian Evangelical Theological Seminary as part of his ScholarLeader of the Year award. Today, January 20, he’s teaching students about the Gospel of John. Later, he’ll speak about Christianity and national identity. We praise God for Yohanna (a former LeaderStudies recipient) and for the sisters and brothers at UETS …
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What strikes me about the Christmas story (according to Mathew’s account) is that the first Christmas was not a quiet and nice story at all. On the contrary, from the very beginning, on that first Christmas, the good news of salvation for humankind was jeopardized by hatred and violence.
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We celebrate with Suraja Raman, whose article was published in “Desi Diaspora” (ed. Sam George of the Lausanne Movement and published by SAIACS, a VSI school). If you’re interested in what it means to teach cross-culturally for Indians living in Africa, you will find this piece helpful.
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We ask for your intercession on behalf of Beni. Our town has been brutally attacked twice in six days. The armed group that has been killing civilians in the Beni territory since 2014 has made incursions into the town of Beni and into our neighboring town of Oicha, killing over 75 of the most vulnerable inhabitants over the last three weeks. On November 24, one of the members of our contractor’s construction crew, the son of one of our campus guards, was killed in his neighborhood near our main campus.
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Anne Zaki spoke on Revelation 22:6-21 during the December 31, 2018 session of Urbana 18, InterVarsity’s 25th student missions conference.
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This month, we congratulate several members of the ScholarLeaders Fellowship who were recently published in this collection from Langham (July 2019). If you’re curious about how Scripture intersects with life as an Asian believer, we encourage you to explore the essays in this book.
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Dr. Seblewongel Denneque from Ethiopia, a LeaderStudies recipient, talks about how a PhD has been essential to her ministry: “I really feel responsible…. I need to write, I need to do research, I need to raise leaders, educate others.” Seble returned to Ethiopia to help lead the Child Development Training and Research Center in Addis …
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We highlight a statement from the Lebanese Church concerning recent protests in Lebanon. Our Vital SustainAbility Initiative encourages faculty in the Majority World to speak prophetically from the Gospel to society and encourages schools of theology to support those prophets. We give thanks for this prophetic call for the common good – that this diverse and ecumenical group of leaders are united to condemn corruption, call for peace, and ask politicians to labor for society’s wellbeing. May we all – throughout the Global Church – have such courage.
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