We look forward to welcoming Prof Jean Kidula (University of Georgia) to deliver the #DuffLecture2026 on June 10th on the topic “‘This time, I must sing’: African Missionizing and Christian Song.” edin.ac/4a62OFw #WorldChristianity #Mission #Ethnomusicology

Looking forward to reading Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical Magnifica Humanitas, reflecting on #TheologicalAnthropology and #AI. www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

Thread here. This is really sad and upsetting:

Watch: New Lib Dem MSP Yi-Pei Chou Turvey, who was born in Taiwan and raised in Belgium, gives her oath in three languages as she is sworn in at Holyrood.

Congratulations Zihao He! Another @cswcedinburgh.bsky.social student has successfully passing their PhD exam. Thanks to Dr Lars Laaman (SOAS) and Luke Li for serving as examiners.

Dr Alexander Chow recently delivered the Dr Timothy Lin Memorial Lecture at China Evangelical Seminary 🧑‍🏫 You can watch all nine lectures from his series alongside the roundtable discussion and Q&A session on their YouTube channel now 🎥👇 edin.ac/4w2YAIr

Thrilled to be able to celebrate with friend and colleague Stephanie Wong on the publication of her book on “Making Catholicism Chinese.” Kwok Pui-lan and I gave responses to her book as part of the celebrations. Congratulations! #WorldChristianity #ChineseChristianity

Was so touched to see the China Evangelical Seminary library in Taiwan put together an exhibit of my works. I just finished a three-day public lecture series on “Theology: A Worldwide Faith Seeking Understanding.” #Theology #WorldChristianity

You know public libraries in Taiwan are solid when they stock your academic books!☺️

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

✍🏼 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...

Just heard of the passing of the important Asian theologian, Aloysius Pieris. He was a Jesuit with a PhD in Buddhist Philosophy, who built bridges across the religious-ethnic strife in Sri Lanka. I was challenged by 𝘈𝘯 𝘈𝘴𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘓𝘪𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 during my PhD. www.rvasia.org/mission-unpl...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

“The Chinese faithful are to be reckoned with.” —Lawrence Braschi A lovely @churchtimes.bsky.social review of our book, Chinese Heritage in British Christianity. #MoreThanForeigners #BritishChinese #BritishChristianity @scmpress.bsky.social www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...

📚 Lawrence Braschi reviews 'Chinese Heritage in British Christianity: More than foreigners', edited by Alexander Chow

TRANSLINGUAL CATHOLICS “is an impressive achievement that has broken much new ground in the study of #Chinese #Theology and world #Christianity." ~Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Available now! undpress.nd.edu/9780...

Review in @churchtimes.bsky.social: Chinese Heritage in British Christianity (ed @alexanderchow.bsky.social) reflects 'the creativity and strains that such transnational and transcultural experiences of Christian faith entail' £20 at Church House Bookshop via: www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...

Lovely to see Chinese Heritage in British Christianity at #aarsbl25 — and at 50% off! Thanks to @dshervington.bsky.social and @scmpress.bsky.social for making it a reality. #morethanforeigners #ChineseChristianity

Finished with another day at work at @uoedivinity.bsky.social.

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...

The Calcutta Christian Observer [1832-1862) now online (in part) missiology.org.uk/journal_calc... #ChristianMissions #India #journals #TheologyontheWeb

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...

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...

Congratulations to Dr Ximian Xu and Professor David Fergusson for a successful launch of the Cambridge Centre for Chinese Theology. Glad to be able to participate in the launch and deliver the inaugural keynote lecture. #ChineseChristianity #WorldChristianity

Putting together the final pieces for my lecture: Worlding Chinese Christianities. Tomorrow, we celebrate the launch of the new Cambridge Centre for Chinese Theology. #ChineseChristianities #WorldChristianity #TheoSky

JOB> University of Toronto - Religions of Transnational East Asia networks.h-net.org/jobs/69189/u...

Thursday 2 Oct 2025, launch of the #Cambridge Centre for #Chinese #Theology.

Really enjoyed writing “The Colour of Revival” for the latest issue of Preach Magazine. “If we can't hear the sound of revival, let us at least see its colour.” #QuietRevival #BritishChristianity #GlobalMajority www.preachweb.org/issues

Interested in #WorldChristianity but not sure where to start? Check out THIRTY YEARS of Studies in World Christianity, the premier journal in the field. @edinburghup.bsky.social has made available articles throughout the years to help us celebrate! 📝 www.euppublishing.com/virtualissue... 1/2

We have 2 exciting vacancies here at Cranmer Hall! Please head to - www.cranmerhall.com/resources/vacancies/ for more information and how to apply.

A huge congratulations to Elilo Ezung! 👏🏼🎉 Another successfully completed @cswcedinburgh.bsky.social PhD student. Thanks to Professors Emma Wild-Wood (pictured) and Kirsteen Kim (@fullerseminary.bsky.social) for their efforts examining Eli’s PhD.

Another day at work. (When your office is also an #EdFringe venue in the summer!)

“[The] human vision of neighbourliness has begun to expand to include all creation, seen and unseen. Loving our neighbour has come to mean recycling, reforestation and cleaning up the waters around us.” —Mercy Oduyoye, _Beads and Strands_ #EcoTheology #WorldChristianity

"TRANSLINGUAL CATHOLICS narrates the overlooked contributions of #Catholic intellectuals of twentieth-century #China, correcting the unbalanced nature of scholarship on Chinese #Christianities." ~Alexander Chow #LiuInstitute #Theology Book: https://bit.ly/3NYFnCW

Conclusions are underrated. Really struggling to compose a compelling conclusion to a chapter I have otherwise finished writing. #AcWri

Really appreciate this thoughtful chapter-by-chapter reflection of 𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘏𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘊𝘩𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘺 from a Canadian perspective. #morethanforeigners @scmpress.bsky.social

Thread containing my stream of thoughts as I read through this book, "Chinese Heritage in British Christianity: More than Foreigners" edited by Alexander Chow

Another important Latin American theologian has passed: Samuel Escobar. He was a major figure in integral mission, often consider an evangelical form of “liberation theology.” www.christiandaily.com/news/samuel-...

Now available as an epub: - The Seeking Heart (@ianjmobsby.bsky.social) - Behold the Men - Pursuing Perfection - Chinese Heritage in British Christianity (@alexanderchow.bsky.social) - Curating Spaces of Hope (@spacesofhope.bsky.social) - Introducing Analytic Theology

Thanks be to God for Pope Francis—his life, his ministry, and his witness.

The entire Edinburgh Companions to Global Christianity is complete. I was honored to edit Vol 7 with Drs. Todd Johnson and Ken Ross. Read this older piece by Todd Johnson on my substack about Vol. 7 gracek.substack.com/p/edinburgh-...

this was a lovely evening celebrating a momentous occasion!