Final @cswcedinburgh.bsky.social reading group discussion over the “excluded middle” over pints. 🍻 #WorldChristianity

Our very own Emeritus Professor Brian Stanley will be awarded a Doctorate of Divinity from the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge in July 2026. What a wonderful recognition—congratulations!! 🎉

Inside a Buddhist Temple, China. From a collection of slides relating to Dugald Christie, who went to Manchuria with his wife in 1882 to work as a medical missionary of the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland. He retired in 1923 and died in 1936. (CSWC47/LS8/36) #PhotoFriday

✍🏼 Registration is open for #YaleEdin2026! Join us in Edinburgh, June 10th to 12th, to discuss “Popular, Folk, Grassroots and Pop Culture in World Christianity and the History of Mission.” #WorldChristianity #MissionHistory @yaledivinityschool.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/yale-edinb...

Black and white lantern slide showing a road from the town of Motihari in Bihar, northeast India, to the Regions Beyond Missionary Union's mission station opened in 1900. (CSWC33/OS14/2) #PhotoFriday

Our final seminar of the term will include two visiting scholars who have been researching Scottish #MissionHistory to India and China, John Carter (Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, USA) and Liza Qiu (Trinity Theological College, Singapore). #WorldChristianity

Four children, identified as Janie, Alice, Maggie, and Mary, photographed with Scottish missionary Mary Slessor, circa 1880. Slessor was known for her work in present-day Nigeria, adopting abandoned children, notably twins and the children of slaves. (CSWC47/LS2/36) #PhotoFriday

We look forward to welcoming Dr Diego Malara (University of Glasgow) to speak on the efficacy and ubiquity of holy water in Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity. We are pleased to co-host this seminar with Religious Studies. #WorldChristianity #AnthropologyofChristianity

Chao Ersun was the Han Chinese governor-general of Manchuria. He is pictured here in a collection of slides relating to Dugald Christie, a Scottish medical missionary in China. (CSWC47/LS8/40) #photofriday

The latest issue of Studies in World Christianity has dropped! These are case studies from the history of Chinese Christian theologizing and social engagement to Christian women's contributions in Hong Kong and Zambia, and African Pentecostals in Belgium. www.cswc.div.ed.ac.uk/2026/03/stud...

We are looking forward to welcoming Dr Kate Tilson (Cambridge University) to speak to us from her research on British Evangelical missions in the Pacific Islands. @camhistory.bsky.social #WorldChristianity #MissionHistory

Boot mender, India, ca. 1930. Leather work is a low-caste occupation in the Hindu caste system, so this man may be a member of a lower caste or possibly outside of Hindu caste system altogether. (CSWC33/OS15) #PhotoFriday

Lake Nyasa (or Lake Malawi) is located between present-day Malawi, Tanzania, and Mozambique. This image is from a collection on the Scottish missionary Robert Laws, who helped found the Livingstonia mission on the shores of Lake Nyasa in 1875. (CSWC47/LS5/1/5) #PhotoFriday

Wonderful to celebrate 𝐶ℎ𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐸𝑚𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑒 𝑅𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑑 (@degruyterbrill.bsky.social 2025) with editor Professor Brian Stanley and all the contributors, online and in person. May it contribute to our ongoing discussions on this important topic. #WorldChristianity

Temple of the Three Righteous Ones and Tea Booth, Manchuria, China, ca. 1882-1936. From a series of Church of Scotland lantern slides relating to Dugald Christie, who went to Manchuria with his wife, Elizabeth, in 1882 to work as a medical missionary. (CSWC47/LS8/35) #PhotoFriday

This Indian woman claps her hands in welcome or prayer. The circa 1920 tinted lantern slide comes from a collection created by missionaries from the Regions Beyond Missionary Union working in northeast India. (CSWC33/OS16/69) #PhotoFriday

Looking forward to next week’s celebration and panel discussion with Professor Brian Stanley and the contributors to the book: 𝐶ℎ𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐸𝑚𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑒 𝑅𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑑 (@degruyterbrill.bsky.social 2025). #WorldChristianity brill.com/display/titl...

The boy in this tinted lantern slide from around 1930 is collecting water at a mela (a gathering or festival) from the Ganges or a tributary. The slide comes from a collection created by missionaries from the Regions Beyond Missionary Union. (CSWC33/OS15/15)

Congratulations to David Lewis for successfully passing his World Christianity PhD viva! Thanks also to Professor Victor Ezigbo (Wycliffe College, Toronto) and Dr David Grummet for serving as examiners. #WorldChristianity

Lovely to have Revd Dr Raj Patta speaking to us about a liturgical turn in subaltern public theology. #WorldChristianity #PublicTheology

Tomorrow, we welcome Revd Dr Raj Bharath Patta (United Stockport Methodist Circuit) to deliver our next research seminar on “Subaltern Public Theology: Dalits and the Indian Public Sphere.” #WorldChristianity #PublicTheology

The Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists, or Boxers, was a secret Chinese society opposed to Western imperialism and Christianity. This is from a United Presbyterian Church of Scotland collection, sometime during the Boxer Rebellion, 1899-1901. (CSWC47/LS8/29) #PhotoFriday

A week and a half more to go before our February 1st deadline! Submit a paper proposal on topics related to “Popular, Folk, Grassroots and Pop Culture in World Christianity and the History of Mission.” #YaleEdin2026 #WorldChristianity #MissionStudies @yaledivinityschool.bsky.social

Wonderful to have Dr MiJa Wi of Nazarene Theological College presenting at our first research seminar of the semester on a Korean dialogical reading of John 7:53-8:11.

Tomorrow, Dr MiJa Wi from Nazarene Theological College will deliver our first research seminar paper of the semester: ‘“Where to Go?”: A Korean Relational Reading of John 7:53–8:11’ #WorldChristianity #BiblicalHermeneutics

🥳 Congratulations to our very own Dr Pedro Feitoza for winning the prestigious Ecclesiastical History Society book prize!! #WorldChristianity #LatinAmericanChristianity

This image from a collection featuring the King's African Rifles, ca. 1914-1918, shows a man outside an unfinished building, revealing some traditional construction techniques. (CSWC47/LS13/44) #PhotoFriday

We look forward to welcoming students, staff, and guests back to our #WorldChristianity seminars and readings groups this semester, starting with one next week. Do get in contact for Zoom details. www.cswc.div.ed.ac.uk/2026/01/rese...

It's the ninth day of Christmas! Patients at the Ama Achara Methodist Hospital in Nigeria wear some of their Christmas presents in this photo from 1932. (CSWC20/1/1/123) #PhotoFriday

Father Christmas attends the Christmas festivities at the Methodist Missionary Society station at Ama Achara in present-day Nigeria in 1934. This image is from an album created by Emily Godfrey, matron of the Ama Achara hospital from 1921 to 1944. (CSWC20/1/1/30) #PhotoFriday

Congratulations to Centre alumna Esther Mombo, the upcoming Vice Chancellor of St. Paul's University-Kenya!

Barrel race participants take their places on the starting line at the Christmas sports day held at the leper colony run by the Primitive Methodist Missionary Society in Uzuakoli, southeast Nigeria, circa 1927 to 1937. (CSWC20/1/1/120) #PhotoFriday

Christmas greetings from the Congo, 1929. This image comes from a collection of lantern slides from the Regions Beyond Missionary Union. (CSWC33/OS12/19) #PhotoFriday

A few of us lifted a glass together ahead of the Christmas holidays! 🍻

A Christmas photo from the albums of Emily Godfrey, the matron of the Ama Achara Methodist Hospital in southeast Nigeria. This is the men's ward decorated for the holiday in 1932. (CSWC20/1/1/117) #PhotoFriday

The Peruvian Inland Mission ran this orphanage, pictured in about 1947. The evangelical mission was started in 1930 by Annie G Soper and was administered by the Regions Beyond Missionary Union after 1948. (CSWC33/OS13) #PhotoFriday

This slide's caption reads 'High caste women in zenana at Harkua village in Gopalganj'. The zenana was reserved for women and were sometimes visited by the wives of male missionaries, who were not allowed to enter. (CSWC33/OS14) #PhotoFriday

This slide from the Congo Balolo Mission shows the port of Conakry on Tombo Island, now in Guinea, ca. 1920-1930. Men in flat-bottomed boats can be seen over the harbour wall as three other men (possibly missionaries) are winched up to the harbour. (CSWC33/OS12/43) #PhotoFriday

Yesterday, we celebrated the 10-vol Edinburgh Companions to Global Christianity w/ @edinburghup.bsky.social. 🥂🎉 With us were editors Ken Ross (Centre hon. fellow) and Todd Johnson, and contributing editors Mariz Tadros and Gina Zurlo. #WorldChristianity edinburghuniversitypress.com/series-edinb...

A collection from the interdenominational Regions Beyond Missionary Union gives us this image titled 'Walking in the street, India, ca. 1930'. (CSWC33/OS16/67) #PhotoFriday

Black and white lantern slide of street barbers, Canton, China, c. 1905-14. The long queue, or braid, of the man on the left suggests the image is from before 1912, after which the style was considered outmoded or a sign of support for the old regime. (CSWC47/LS1/57) #PhotoFriday

We are glad to highlight Benjamin Aldous’s piece as our featured article of this issue. For a limited time, there is #NoPaywall and it is well worth being widely read! #MissionStudies #WorldChristianity #EcumenicalTheology #CSSong @edinburghup.bsky.social @churchesengland.bsky.social

📢 Just out—𝑆𝑡𝑢𝑑𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑊𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑 𝐶ℎ𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑦 31.3. What a privilege to publish this final issue of our 30th anniversary year with exceptional articles that are representative and reflective of #WorldChristianity and #MissionStudies. 1/6 @edinburghup.bsky.social www.cswc.div.ed.ac.uk/studies-in-w...

I first presented this paper on city #lament, #CCM and a grassroots theology at @uniofstandrews.bsky.social. Glad that this has now been published while I am a staff here, and at @cswcedinburgh.bsky.social journal, where I did my PhD. (1/2) #HongKongProtests doi.org/10.3366/swc....

A group of women carrying bundles on their heads can be seen in the distance in this tinted slide of a path through the Okoyong forest, Calabar (Nigeria). The Scottish Missionary Mary Slessor visited the Okoyong forest people in June 1888. (CSWC47/LS2/24) #PhotoFriday

Jamaican Bush Hut, Jamaica, ca.1875-ca.1940. The Scottish Missionary Society sent missionaries to Jamaica in 1800. Two of the three died within weeks of arrival and a second group travelled to Jamaica in 1824 to instruct slaves on local plantations. (CSWC47/LS11/38) #PhotoFriday

Call for Papers for #YaleEdin2026: Popular, Folk, Grassroots and Pop Culture in World Christianity and the History of Mission #WorldChristianity #MissionHistory www.cswc.div.ed.ac.uk/2025/10/yale...